Hilarion's Asse: Laurence Sterne and Humour
Sous la direction de Anne Bandry-Scubbi & Peter de Voogd
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013,
EAN 9781443842310
155p.
Prix : £39.99
Présentation de l'éditeur :
The humour of Tristram Shandy has often been acknowledged, but it is not easy to find scholarly articles on Laurence Sterne which suggest that their authors laughed as they wrote. Nine authors have been invited to redress this in the year of the tercentenary of Sterne’s birth. This volume offers nine different facets of humour, a kaleidoscope which enables readers to recombine at will the genial, the bawdy, the sentimental, the ludicrous, the hobby-horsical, the philosophical, the irreverent, the incongruous and the facetious, sending the text spiralling out of the page.
Sommaire
Preface
Suzy Halimi
Introduction
Anne Bandry-Scubbi and Peter de Voogd
Chapter One : Tristram Shandy as Comedy of Errors
Madeleine Descargues-Grant
Chapter Two :“Make them like unto a wheel”: Motion and Humour in Tristram Shandy
Anne Dromart
Chapter Three : A Book that Excites Laughter: The Physiology of Laughter in Tristram Shandy
Alexis Tadié
Chapter Four : A “New Order of Beings and Things”: Caricature in Sterne’s Fictional Worlds
M.-C. Newbould
Chapter Five : Asses, Artichokes and Macaroons: The Joco-Serious Humour of Tristram Shandy
Marc Martinez
Chapter Six : Sterne’s Comic Menagerie
Brigitte Friant-Kessler
Chapter Seven : “Into What a Delicious Riot of Things Am I Rushing?”: Material Things and Humour in Tristram Shandy
Paul Goring
Chapter Eight : Tactus Interruptus as Sternean Trope
W.G. Day
Chapter Nine : Surfeits of words, Surviving lists in Tristram Shandy
Amélie Junqua
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Anne Bandry-Scubbi, Professor of British Literature at the University of Strasbourg, has published extensively on eighteenth-century fiction and is the senior editor of Revue de la Société d'Études Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. She has co-authored Tristram Shandy: Laurence Sterne (Armand Colin, 2006).
Peter de Voogd, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Utrecht, has published widely on the eighteenth century and Modernism, and is the founding editor of The Shandean, co-editor of The Reception of Sterne in Europe (Athlone Press – Continuum, 2004) and of The Letters of Laurence Sterne (University of Florida Press, 2009).