Sterne, Tristram, Yorick Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne |
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| Editor:
| New, Melvyn
de Voogd, Peter
Hawley, Judith |
| Contribution by:
| Blackwood, Ashleigh
Chibka, Robert
Dale, Amelia
DeGooyer, Stephanie
Havard, John Owen
Henke, Christoph
Keymer, Tom
Kraft, Elizabeth
Lipski, Jakub
McDermott, Ray
Norton, Brian Michael
Rogers, Pat
Serebrennikov, Artem
Wehrs, Donald R. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61149-570-6 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2015 |
| Publisher: | University of Delaware Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $115.00 |
Book Description:
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These thirteen essays represent a very wide range of approaches to the fictions of Laurence Sterne, who has certainly evolved into the eighteenth century's most important influence on modern and postmodern literature. While each essay centers on his written texts or his lived contexts, they together offer homage to his endurance as an author emulated by many modern writers--Nietzsche, Proust, Woolf, Joyce, Mann, Marías, Goytisolo, Fuentes, Rushdie, and Pamuk; indeed, what important...
More DescriptionThese thirteen essays represent a very wide range of approaches to the fictions of Laurence Sterne, who has certainly evolved into the eighteenth century's most important influence on modern and postmodern literature. While each essay centers on his written texts or his lived contexts, they together offer homage to his endurance as an author emulated by many modern writers--Nietzsche, Proust, Woolf, Joyce, Mann, Marías, Goytisolo, Fuentes, Rushdie, and Pamuk; indeed, what important writer in the past 150 years has not been influenced by Sterne?