Satire, Comedy and Tragedy : Sterne's "Handles" to Tristram Shandy /
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London ; New York, NY :
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2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Walter, Toby, Tristram, and the Reader: Sterne's Revision of "Dullness"
- Sterne's Expansion of the Plot of Satire
- The Critical Background
- Critical Views of Sterne and Their Influence on Readings of Tristram Shandy
- A Plan for Analysis of Sterne's Revision of Dullness in Tristram Shandy
- 2. The Yorick Standard, Walter's Benevolent Dullness, and Tristram's Friends: The Plot of Satire in Tristram Shandy
- Dullness and Distortion of Reality
- Normative Yorick and His Conflict with Dullness
- Beyond the Black Page: Walter's Benevolent Dullness
- The Sometimes-Self-Conscious Narrator and His Reader: Sterne's Purpose in Revising Dullness
- 3. "True Shandeism": The Unhappy Comic Action in Tristram Shandy
- Laughing and Giving: Yorick and the Comic Spirit
- The Resurrection of Yorick: Tristram's Contrast of Dullness and Benevolent Dullness
- Tristram's Comic Conflict with Dullness in and beyond the Family
- The Unhappy Ending of Toby's Comic "Siege"
- 4. Isolation and Death: The Tragic Undertones of Shandean Benevolent Dullness
- Eugenius' Tragic Friend
- Domestic Tragedy: The Isolation of Walter and Toby
- "The Work Itself": Tristram's Dance with Death
- 5. Benevolent Dullness, Ambiguity, and the Reader: Modal Complexity and the Plots of Tristram Shandy
- Dullness versus Benevolence: Public and Private Conflicts
- Ambiguity and Sterne's Purpose in Revising Traditional Modes of Dullness
- Laughter and "Self-Creation": The Reader and the Surrogate Reader
- "So What?" Why This Study of Generic Plots in Tristram Shandy Matters
- 6. Laurence Sterne's Letters
- Sterne's Epistolary Rebukes of Moralistic Dullness
- Resisting Death, Fostering Friendship
- Marital Tension and Separation
- Sterne's Love Letters: The Rake, the Father, and the Pastor
- Letters and Fiction on Finding Joy in the Pain
- 7. The Shandean Sermons of Parson Sterne
- Sermons on "Kindred Virtues" and the Folly of Dullness
- "True Shandeism": Parson Sterne's Challenge to Moralists
- Religion as Joy and Mouring
- 8. Parson Yorick in A Sentimental Journey and in A Continuation of Bramine's Journal
- A Sentimental Journey
- Yorick's Sentimentality
- Yorick's Deeper Sentiment
- Yorick's Reflections on Overcoming Dullness
- Continuation of Brahmine's Journal
- Letters to a New Mrs. Sterne?
- Confessional Letters from the Bawdy Prelate
- Letters on Spiritual Healing
- 9. The International Perspective on Tristram Shandy and the Argument for Using Writing- to-Learn Strategies to Teach Sterne's Globally Significant Novel
- The International Influence of Tristram Shandy and Sterne's International Influencers
- Pedagogical Scholarship on Tristram Shandy
- Samples of Post-Modern Approaches to Teaching Tristram Shandy
- Samples of Contextual and Structural Approaches to Teaching Tristram Shandy