Surfeits of words, surviving lists in Tristram Shandy / Amélie Junqua. Introduction / Anne Bandry-Scubbi and Peter de Voogd -- Tristram Shandy as comedy of errors / Madeleine Descargues-Grant -- Make them like unto a wheel : motion and humour in Tristram Shandy / Anne Dromart -- A book that excites laughter : the physiology of laughter in Tristram Shandy / Alexis Tadié -- A new order of beings and things : caricature in Sterne's fictional worlds / M.-C. Newbould -- Asses, artichokes and macaroons : the joco-serious humour of Tristram Shandy / Marc Martinez -- Sterne's comic menagerie / Brigitte Friant-Kessler -- Into what a delicious riot of things am I rushing? : material things and humour in Tristram Shandy / Paul Goring -- Tactus interruptus as Sternean trope / W.G. Day -- Surfeits of words, surviving lists in Tristram Shandy / Amélie Junqua.
Summary:
"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"--Publisher website.
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