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Title: Tristram Shandy (Cliffs Notes) by Laurence Sterne, Charles Parish ISBN: 0-8220-1311-8 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: April, 1968 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Summary: Analysis of the "marble page" and Narrative Failure.
Comment: Tristram Shandy is a novel about human understanding. One of the things that Sterne believed about humanity is that things were constantly changing; always in flux, if you will. Historically speaking, he was of the Lockian generation which displaced uman understanding into two categories, wit and association. Sterne was a believer in association, and attributed to that the idea of the "hobby-horse." This meant the menial quirks that each and every human had, such is the case with the sexual expeditions of the characters within. With the idea of human flux and the hobby-horse, we are brought to the "marble page," which is, in and of itself, a hermeneutical circle for defining the rest of the book. Sterne presents this page to illustrate uniqueness of individuals and the unpredeictability of the process of writing. Which brings me to my next point, the concept of narrative failure. Throughout the strange goings on of the book, we come to points in the writing in which Sterne includes the reader into the disorder of the narrative. In Volume IV, Sterne mentions the process of the book in which he has done one year of writing, and yet come only to the first day of his life. This is the failure he is showing us, and the manner in which he creates this outrageous tale. These two aspects of Tristram Shandy are intrical in understanding and enjoying the chaos of this book.
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Title: Tom Jones (Cliffs Notes) by James C. Evans ISBN: 0822012936 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: June, 1964 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title:CliffsNotes Joseph Andrews by Michael B. Mavor ASIN: B000067FZJ Publisher: Hungry Minds List Price(USD): $5.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $5.99 |
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Title: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (Penguin Classics) by Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Joan New ISBN: 0141439777 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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