Tristram Shandy

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  • Created on: 05-04-17 21:24
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  • The Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
    • 1760 "The monthy review" - "not only scanolously indecent but absolutely dull"
      • 9 volumes fragmented publications
      • draws attention to new chapters/volumes
        • allows readers to interpret black page/blank page and astericks - game
        • uses typography and physical elements to acknowledge the text as a material object
      • published and written over time
        • a few volumes at certain intervals to pay
          • keeps up with Sterne's experience
      • some bad reviews
        • age of reviews
          • reviews get mocked in next installment
    • Sterne was 47 when began writing
      • no such job as novelist in 18th century
        • tried journalism and satirical writing
    • Tristram tries to write his life finds himself constantly having to explain things which are a tangent to his narrative
      • digressions are the very soul of his book
    • events of household
      • non chronological
        • sense of time shifts
        • fragmented story of own life
      • drawn anecdotes to form prehistory - conception and pre birth in vols I and II
    • begins with conception
      • reader is present at conception - encouraged to speculate on meaning
        • reader misunderstands and Tristram plays with this
    • Intertextuality
      • Swift- tale of a tub
      • Shakespeare's Hamlet
      • Isn't like the authors he invokes
      • constantly drawing on different experiences of books
      • invokes process of reading as much as reading itself
      • must we always be repeating other people's ideas? plagiarised
      • stolen/plagiarised (intentional)
        • mediocre writers imitate and great writers steal
    • masculinity
      • dominated by men of household
        • few of the men are potent
          • including the family bull
          • dominated by mens interests but not physically

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I am aware the formatting went wrong... i can't seem to sort it out

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