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  title info:
    title: Metaphor, motif, and the moment
    sub title: form and human relationships in Laurence Stern's Tristram Shandy, James Joyce's Ulysses, and John Barth's Lost in the funhouse
  name:
    name part: Lampkin, Frances Loretta Murrell.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Bailey, Guy
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Berthold, Dennis
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Burt, Forrest
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Crusius, Timothy
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Hill, Rodney
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1985
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 2 volumes (ix, 349 leaves) ; 29 cm
  abstract: Without defining another subgenre of the novel, this study calls the centripetal/centrifugal, open-ended forms of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, James Joyce's Ulysses, and John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse, encyclopaedic narrative, a form which blends Greco-Roman narrative for the eye with Judeo-Christian narrative for the ear. By drawing upon the symbols, images, and typologies found in the Bible's and Kabbalah's archetypal father-son motif, each artist blurs the narrative boundaries between irrational man's timeless quest to know self, other, and another; and rational man's timebound quest for knowledge. Spanning the abyss between voice and print, each writer-protagonist and his reader get doublecrossed with each other, with life's embeddedness, and with a protean, ambiguous sign system. The result is a tragi-comic, yet mysterious and serious, handing over of narrative traditions, father to son. The writer-reader team reverses life's irreversibles by traveling via neqativa, learning in the process that unselfish love triumphs over all things. Due to each artist's transformational, twoness-threeness rhythm, each re-reading generates from within itself, more possibilities for new narrative, a form equivalent to Hebraic Midrash. Yet, despite surface pyrotechnics, by letter and by number each work's profusion of metaphors in motifs spiraling out from a nexus of energy radiation adds to the mystery surrounding each form's warmly human and loving family relationships. Form and human relationships cooperate to produce a satisfying reading experience.
  note: "Major subject: English."
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1985
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 335-345).
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Barth, John
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Joyce, James
      name part: 1882-1941
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sterne, Laurence
      name part: 1713-1768
  subject:
    topic: Major English
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-596455
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 870815
    record change date: 20220103135240.0
    record identifier: in00000581796
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng