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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780521075138
The author of Tristram Shandy made frequent use of literary
fragments from other writers, as part of his own style. Laurence
Sterne’s quotations, plagiarisms and allusions were often employed
in the service of the pleonasm, or ‘performed pun’. Jonathan Lamb
describes Sterne’s operation of the pleonasm as his ‘double
principle’. He sees this style not as the key to some clever puzzle
whose clues we go on solving in the hope of total disclosure of
meaning (as some critics have claimed); rather the opposite, that
it is a consoling reminder that neither we nor the text can ever be
complete. Lamb severs Sterne from the Locke tradition and frees him
from the ‘influence’ oriented studies which have aimed to
authenticate him through his borrowings. This allows us to read him
as a writer eagerly exploring the turns and paradoxes of
associationist thought and adapting the rhetoric of the sublime to
the stutterings of ordinary speech.
Acknowledgements
Foreword
1. Scepticism, job and the double principle
2. Originality and the Hobbyhorse
3. Associationism
4. Narratives and readings
5. The Shandean Sublime
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