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Sterne's Whimsical Theatres of Language - Orality, Gesture, Literacy (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Sterne's Whimsical Theatres of Language - Orality, Gesture, Literacy (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Studies in Early Modern English Literature
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This study addresses the intricate links between oral culture and
literate culture in the eighteenth century. Tadie traces how
perceptions and representations of language move from a dominance
of the spoken work to a dominance of the written word; and this is
echoed in the order of the five chapters on conversation, gesture,
theatre, fiction, and print. Tadie offers a reading of Sterne's
works, arguing that the use of language lies at the centre of
Sterne's art; he approaches the historical dimension of the texts
in the context of eighteenth-century theories of language. He
brings into focus the heterogeneity of Sterne's texts; and he
demonstrates how Sterne's awareness for the variations of language
links up with his interest in the form of the book, and with the
use of all the potentialities of print. The study broaches the
issue of the 'rise of the novel' in the eighteenth century. it
refuses the idea of progress, or of slow emergence of the novel in
the eighteenth century, which would lead progressively from Defoe
to the Fielding-Richardson debate, to a possible view of Sterne as
the great ironist of the form of the novel. Tadie asserts that
Sterne's writings do not simply address the nature of the novel,
but they engage with all the forms of language representation made
available by the culture of the age.
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