Biblical Sterne

Rhetoric and Religion in the Shandyverse

Ryan J. Stark (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

184 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-20289-4 (ISBN)

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Is Laurence Sterne one of the great Christian apologists? Ryan Stark recommends him as such, perhaps to the detriment of the parson’s roguish reputation. The book’s aim, however, is not to dispel roguishness but rather to discern the theological motives behind Sterne’s comic rhetoric, from Tristram Shandy and the sermons to A Sentimental Journey. To this end, Stark reveals a veritable avalanche of biblical themes and allusions to be found in Sterne, often and seemingly awkwardly in the middle of sex jokes, and yet the effect is not to produce irreverence. On the contrary, we find an irreverently reverent apologetic, Stark argues, and a priest who knows how to play gracefully with religious ideas. Through Sterne, in fact, we might rethink humour’s role in the service of religion.

Ryan Stark is Associate Professor of Humanities at Corban University. He is the author of Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-Century England (2009) and co-editor—with Tina Skouen—of Rhetoric and the Early Royal Society (2015). He has also published numerous essays on Renaissance and Enlightenment thought.

Chapter 1: The Shandean Apology
Chapter 2: Paranormal Tristram Shandy
Chapter 3: Are the Sermons Funny?
Chapter 4: Maria in the Biblical Sense
Chapter 5: Otherworldly Yorick
Chapter 6: Ghost Rhetoric
Chapter 7: Why Sterne?
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Erscheinungsdatum	25.02.2021
Reihe/Serie	New Directions in Religion and Literature
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-20289-4 / 1350202894
ISBN-13	978-1-350-20289-4 / 9781350202894
Zustand	Neuware