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9780754630760

SterneÆs Whimsical Theatres of Language: Orality, Gesture, Literacy

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    9780754630760

  • ISBN10:

    0754630765

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-03-28
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This study addresses the intricate links between oral culture and literate culture in the eighteenth century. Tadié traces how perceptions and representations of language move from a dominance of the spoken word to a dominance of the written word; and this is echoed in the order of the five chapters on conversation, gesture, theatre, fiction, and print.Tadié offers a reading of Sterne's works, arguing that the use of language lies at the centre of Sterne's art; he approaches this historical dimension of the texts in the context of eighteenth-century theories of language. He brings into focus the heterogeneity of Sterne's texts; and he demonstrates how Sterne's awareness for the variations of language links up with his interest in the form of the book, and with the use of all the potentialities of print.

Table of Contents

References and Abbreviations vi
General Editor's Preface vii
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction 1(16)
1 The Rule of Conversation 17(32)
2 The Flesh of Words 49(28)
3 The Sight of Language 77(32)
4 The Words of Fiction 109(32)
5 The Paradoxes of the Book 141(34)
Conclusion 175(4)
Bibliography 179(10)
Index 189

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