Tristram Shandy
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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
- a few volumes at certain intervals to pay
- some bad reviews
- age of reviews
- reviews get mocked in next installment
- age of reviews
- Sterne was 47 when began writing
- no such job as novelist in 18th century
- tried journalism and satirical writing
- no such job as novelist in 18th century
- 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
- non chronological
- begins with conception
- reader is present at conception - encouraged to speculate on meaning
- reader misunderstands and Tristram plays with this
- reader is present at conception - encouraged to speculate on meaning
- 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
- few of the men are potent
- dominated by men of household
- 1760 "The monthy review" - "not only scanolously indecent but absolutely dull"
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