1st Edition
Sterne’s Whimsical Theatres of Language Orality, Gesture, Literacy
By Alexis Tadié
Copyright 2003
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 work 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,... Read more
Contents: General editor's preface; Introduction; The rule of conversation; The flesh of words; The sight of language; The words of fiction; The paradoxes of the book; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Alexis Tadié was previously Professor of British Literature at the University of Paris 7- Denis Diderot, France, and is now Professor of English Literature, University of Paris Sorbonne, France.
’Through its discussion of orality and print culture, this study offers a useful context for reading Sterne's novels.’ The Eighteenth Century Current Bibliography
