Sterne's Fiction and the Double Principle

by Jonathan Lamb and Lamb Jonathan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521075130
• ISBN13: 9780521075138
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"