Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

AvJames Vigus

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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This book investigates how Laurence Sterne's humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction. It reveals that Shandean humour is a Grenzganger—a point of commerce between English and German literature and philosophy.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-03-28
Mått:174 x 246 x undefined mm
Vikt:560 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:200
Förlag:Maney Publishing
ISBN:9781907975318

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Introduction 1. Style and Syntax as Catalysts of Sterne's Humour in Tristram Shandy 2. The Ruins of Melancholy in Sterne's Tristram Shandy 3. From Personal Identity to Character: Sterne and Hume 4. Literary Castlings and Backwards Flights to Heaven: Sterne's Über-Humor in the work of Jean Paul Richter and Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel 5. Consciousness, Time, and System: On the Structure of Hegel's Phänomenologie des Geistes in the Light of Tristram Shandy 6. Shandean Taylor Coleridge 7. Karl Marx's Shandean Humour: Scorpion and Felix and its Aftermath 8. The Crafty Art of Textual Pirating: Melville and Sterne 9. From Shandyism to Pataphysics: Sternean Influence in Alfred Jarry's Gestes et opinions du Docteur Faustroll, Pataphysicien