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'L-d! said my mother, what is all this story about? - A COCK and a
BULL, said Yorick - And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard'
One of the greatest novels ever written, now in a wonderful new
clothbound edition Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy
humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with a
rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first
'postmodern' novel. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously
disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the
unfortunate 'hero' Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his
father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby,
and a host of other characters, including Dr Slop, Corporal Trim
and the parson Yorick. A joyful celebration of the endless
possibilities of the art of fiction, Tristram Shandy is also a wry
demonstration of its limitations. The text and notes of this volume
are based on the acclaimed Florida Edition, with a critical
introduction by Melvyn New and Christopher Ricks's introductory
essay from the first Penguin Classics edition. 'The book that I
would never tire of ... Sterne was about 250 years ahead of his
time' Roy Porter, author of Enlightenment: Britain And The Creation
Of The Modern World
Purporting to be an autobiography of the antihero Tristram Shandy,
Laurence Sterne's novel is a comic masterpiece of digression,
egoism and sensationalism, as its hilarious asides, explanations
and host of memorable secondary characters - such as Uncle Toby, Dr
Slop, Parson Yorick and Widow Wadman - take centre stage, at the
expense of the actual life events the book sets out to depict. A
humorous compendium of European thought and literature - pastiching
the likes of Locke and Bacon and referencing Pope, Swift, Cervantes
and Rabelais - emerges amid the convoluted accounts of Tristram's
conception, misnaming and accidental circumcision by a sash window,
in a shrewd narrative that examines the role and nature of language
itself.
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Tristram Shandy (Paperback, New edition)
Laurence Sterne; Introduction by Cedric Watts; Notes by Cedric Watts; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of
English, University of Sussex. Laurence Sterne's The Life and
Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox,
for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete
with bawdy humour and generous sentiments, it introduces us to a
vivid group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical
and endearing. As an anti-novel, it is a deliberately tantalising
and exuberantly egoistic work, ostentatiously digressive, involving
the reader in the labyrinthine creation of a purported
autobiography. This mercurial eighteenth-century text thus
anticipates modernism and postmodernism. Vibrant and bizarre,
Tristram Shandy provides an unforgettable experience. We may see
why Nietzsche termed Sterne 'the most liberated spirit of all
time'.
In annotated texts based on those of the acclaimed Florida Edition
of The Works of Laurence Sterne , this edition features the two
works Sterne produced in the final year of his illness-plagued
life: the witty, bawdy, pathetic, and thoughtful A Sentimental
Journey through France and Italy ; and Continuation of the
Bramine's Journal , Sterne's correspondence to a
twenty-two-year-old married Englishwoman living in India ("a
Diary," as he put it, "of the miserable feelings of a person
separated from a Lady for whose Society he languish'd"). Together,
these mutually illuminating works offer rich insight into their
author's hopes, fears, loves, longings, and philosophy as he
prepared to face death and judgment. Excerpts from related texts
provide context for understanding the title works in relation to
the earlier writings and life of this exuberant yet subtle genius
of eighteenth-century English literature.
This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The first London edition
(1759) of Sterne's revolutionary and influential novel. * Textual
notes, explanatory footnotes, and a preface by Judith Hawley. *
Three illustrations. * The Author on the Novel, fourteen
judiciously chosen letters from the latest scholarly edition. * A
wide range of early responses that demonstrate Tristram Shandy's
changing reception from its publication through the nineteenth
century. * Eleven major critical interpretations, ten of them new
to this edition. * A Chronology of Laurence Sterne's life and work
and a Selected Bibliography. About the Series Read by more than 12
million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions
set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate
readers. The three-part format-annotated text, contexts, and
criticism-helps students to better understand, analyze, and
appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching
possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital
format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students
need.
La escritura de Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), nacido en lrlanda,
brota de la corriente que abrieron Rabelais y Cervantes, y que
habria de llegar hasta Joyce. Tristram Shandy es una pieza clave en
la formacion de la novela moderna, en la que el lector descubre con
asombro como la veta subversiva que alienta la narracion desborda
los limites de la peripecia para contaminar las mismas convenciones
del genero. La autorreferencia, la paradoja y el subjetivismo se
alian con la explotacion de los recursos tipograficos para crear,
ademas, una de las novelas mas divertidas de la literatura inglesa.
‘L—d! said my mother, what is all this story about? – A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick – and one of the best of its kind I ever heard’ Laurence Sterne’s great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate ‘hero’ Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr Slop, Corporal Trim and the parson Yorick. A joyful celebration of the endless possibilities of the art of fiction, Tristram Shandy is also a wry demonstration of its limitations. The text and notes of this volume are based on the acclaimed Florida Edition, with a critical introduction by Melvyn New and Christopher Ricks’s introductory essay from the first Penguin Classics edition of the novel. THE FLORIDA EDITION
Sterne's Sentimental Journey is a novel without a plot and a journey without a destination. Here, Sterne records the adventures of the amiable Parson Yorick, as sets off on his travels through France and Italy, relishing his encounters with all manner of men and women, particularly the pretty ones. The tale rapidly moves away from the narrative of travel to become a series of pathetic and ironic incidents, dramatic sketches, philosophical musings, and anecdotes. Here, sharp wit is mixed with gaiety, irony with tender feeling forging a truly original style and establishing Sterne as the first of the stream-of-consciousness writers.
At once endlessly facetious and highly serious, Sterne's great
comic novel contains some of the best-known and best-loved
characters in English literature--including Uncle Toby, Corporal
Trim, Parson Yorick, and Dr. Slop--and boasts one of the most
innovative and whimsical narrative styles in all literature. This
revised edition of Sterne's extraordinary novel retains the text
based on the first editions of the original nine volumes (with
Sterne's later changes), adds two illustrations by William Hogarth,
and expands and updates the introduction, bibliography, and notes,
to make this the most critically up-to-date edition available. The
text of the novel preserves, as far as possible, the appearance of
Sterne's idiosyncratic typography and features such as black pages,
marbled pages, blank pages, missing chapters and other devices. The
introduction sheds light on the novel's innovations and influence
and provides a biographical account of the author. Comprehensive
notes identify the profusion of references and reveal previously
overlooked sources. The book will appear in time for the 250th
anniversary of the publication of first two volumes.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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