Swiftly Sterneward - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Swiftly Sterneward write by W. B. Gerard. This book was released on 2011-04-07. Swiftly Sterneward available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These thirteen essays have been collected to honor Melvyn New, professor emeritus (Florida), and are prefaced by a description of his scholarly career of more than forty years. Suggesting the wide range of that career, the first eight essays offer various critical perspectives on a diverse group of eighteenth-century authors. These include a reading of Eliot in the shadow of Pope; a comparison of Gainsborough’s final paintings and Sterne’s Sentimental Journey; a study of Johnson and casuistry; a discussion of Smollett’s view of slavery in Roderick Random; a bibliographical study of a Lyttelton poem; a comparison of Swift and Nietzsche; and two essays about Fielding’s Joseph Andrews. Laurence Sterne, the primary focus of Professor New’s scholarship, is also the focus of the final five essays, which treat Sterne in contexts as disparate as the kabbalah, abolitionist discourse, local English church politics, the use of the fragment, and, finally, the culture of modernity.
Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson
Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson write by Melvyn New. This book was released on 2012-06-14. Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seventeen essays explore the complex relationships between literary intentions and theological concerns of authors writing in the second half of the eighteenth century. The diversity of literary forms and subjects, from Fielding and Richardson to Burke and Wollstonecraft, is matched by a diversity of theologies; to argue that the age “resisted secularism” is by no means to argue that that resistance was blindly doctrinal or rigidly uniform; the many ways secularism could be resisted is the subject of the collection
Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Laurence Sterne write by Manfred Pfister. This book was released on 2001. Laurence Sterne available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite the immense popularity of Laurence Sterne's work during his lifetime, his contribution to the novel form and experimentalism has only been acknowledged since his death. His contemporaries Richardson and Goldsmith denounced his archaic methods and took offence at his playful irreverence but his oddity is never accidental nor perverse; it is the strategy of an inventive, thoughtful, comic talent. Tristram Shandy, perhaps his best loved work, defies convention at every turn, distributing narrative content across a bafflingly idiosyncratic time-scheme interrupted by digressions, authorial comments and interferences with the printed fabric of the book. This comically fragmented story line is a reaction against the linear narratives of Fielding and Richardson; aiming instead at a realistic impressionism, a shape determined by the association of ideas. This study critiques Sterne's work in the light of modern literary theory, questioning whether he was an artist before his time.
Sterne, Tristram, Yorick
Sterne, Tristram, Yorick - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sterne, Tristram, Yorick write by Melvyn New. This book was released on 2015-11-12. Sterne, Tristram, Yorick available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sterne, Tristram, Yorick: Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne derives from the Laurence Sterne Tercentenary Conference held at Royal Holloway, University of London, on July 8–11, 2013. It was attended by some eighty scholars from fourteen countries; the conference heard more than sixty papers. The organizers invited participants to submit revised versions of their contributions for this volume, and the thirteen selected exhibit, it is hoped, the defining features both of the conference and of Sterne studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is worth remarking that the selected authors represent seven countries; that Sterne may well be the most internationally accepted of all eighteenth-century English authors is certainly a claim worthy of a sentimental traveler. This collection recognizes three faces of Sterne, beginning with several biographical essays examining, respectively, his celebrity status, family life, politics, and philosophy. The second face is that of Tristram, studied from vantage points provided by ethics, linguistics, gender studies, and comparative literature. The final group of essays examines the face of Yorick as the protagonist of A Sentimental Journey, beginning with an ethnographic study of relationships, moving through questions of identity, and concluding with the possible future of literary studies—a return to aesthetics.
The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake
The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake write by Eric McLuhan. This book was released on 1997-01-01. The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The study establishes the nature and aims of Finnegans Wake as Menippean satire and interprets the Wake in that light. McLuhan examines Joyce's use of language, and in particular his use of ten hundred-lettered words (thunderclaps).
