Tristram Shandy Examining the Narrator's...."Helpfulness"...in Laurence Sterne's Comic Novel Tristram Shandy Tristram Shandy has earned a very mixed reputation in the several centuries since it was initially published; it is undoubtedly the work of Continue Reading...
Sentimental Journey Q1: How did you react to A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, on its own, or in comparison to previous works on the course? (eg. I enjoyed reading...) I enjoyed reading Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through Franc Continue Reading...
Shame" is a novel that is bursting with anger. And yet to call it a novel is not quite true; it is a satire in the way that Sterne's "Tristram Shandy" and Gulliver Twist's works were satires and in the way that Candide satirized his own society. Rus Continue Reading...
What is truly remarkable about Swift's novel is the fact that the protagonist rarely generates any kind of emotional response to what he encounters, and the adventures that befall him. In this sense, Swift's novel aims at challenging the norms, trad Continue Reading...
Postmodern Book: Proposal Colson Whitehead's John Henry Days explores the relationship between fact and fiction with a postmodern narrative structure. One of the characteristics of postmodernism is the way in which it destabilizes what constitutes ' Continue Reading...
