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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 February 2012
      05 October 1989
      ISBN:
      9780511896224
      9780521075138
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511896224
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      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.27kg, 176 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, British History after 1450, Literary Theory, English Literature 1700-1830
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought (3)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, British History after 1450, Literary Theory, English Literature 1700-1830
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought (3)
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    The author of Tristram Shandy made frequent use of literary fragments from other writers, as part of his own style. Laurence Sterne's quotations, plagiarisms and allusions were often employed in the service of the pleonasm, or 'performed pun'. Jonathan Lamb describes Sterne's operation of the pleonasm as his 'double principle'. He sees this style not as the key to some clever puzzle whose clues we go on solving in the hope of total disclosure of meaning (as some critics have claimed); rather the opposite, that it is a consoling reminder that neither we nor the text can ever be complete. Lamb severs Sterne from the Locke tradition and frees him from the 'influence' oriented studies which have aimed to authenticate him through his borrowings. This allows us to read him as a writer eagerly exploring the turns and paradoxes of associationist thought and adapting the rhetoric of the sublime to the stutterings of ordinary speech.

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