Laurence Sterne in Modernism and Postmodernism

by Peter de Voogd and David Pierce Jr.

Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy is the most wayward - and in some respects the most powerful - critique of Locke's theory of knowledge, while his interest in the gulf between biological and clock time makes him a contemporary of Proust and Bergson. In obscuring the fine line between autobiography and fiction, Sterne belongs to the generation of modern writers that includes Joyce and Nabokov. In his deliberate refusal to construct a 'goahead plot'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042000023
• ISBN13: 9789042000025
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Brill/Rodopi
• Length: 210 Pages