Shandy

In Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, Toby Shandy is often characterized as naïve and innocent, especially in references to matter of sex. Many, the readers as well as fellow characters, reason this to be from the injury in which he received from the “Battle of Namur”. Through an analysis of the text and research, I have concluded that the naïveté, innocence, and other contextual evidence associated with Uncle Toby Shandy, actually points to Toby being a homosexual. As I mentioned before, I have

“Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for a conversation” (87; vol. II, ch. XI), states the narrator Tristram Shandy in Laurence Sterne’s novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Indeed, the distinctive writing style of the novel may make one feel reminded of a real conversation due to the many interruptions and digressions, which are typical of human face-to-face interaction and which occasionally make it more difficult for

consciousness, heritage, name, appearance, and the soul. As Sterne’s novel Tristram Shandy draws influence from John Locke’s An Essay of Human Understanding, in which Locke discusses the origin of personal identity, the individual identity is evidently reflected within the text. The novel demonstrates Sterne’s interpretation of the personal identity through the construction of each of his unique characterisations. Tristram Shandy discusses the concept and origin of the individuality identity both reflecting

Rice University Sexuality/Textuality in Tristram Shandy Author(s): Dennis W. Allen Reviewed work(s): Source: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 25, No. 3, Restoration and Eighteenth Century (Summer, 1985), pp. 651-670 Published by: Rice University Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/450501 . Accessed: 16/12/2012 06:30 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a comic novel by Laurence Stern. As the title suggests, the book is Tristram’s narration of his life story. The novel is highly unconventional in its narrative technique. One of the central jokes of the novel is that Tristram cannot explain anything simply, in order to add content and colour to his tales for the readers he gets into deep explantions of minor things which end up in complete lose of the plot at most of the times. The novel appears

This summer, I learned I could do some athletic things in the most stereotypical, cliche way imaginable. I climbed a mountain. My dad and I had gone up to the North Shore on a father-son trip. I am not at all athletically gifted, so I was not looking forward to it. I could not envision myself climbing a mountain. To climb a mountain you had to be agile and surefooted. I was neither of those things. I was, and still am, very clumsy. Also my hand-eye coordination is egregious. I was exactly the opposite

Introduction This research task touches on the way males are represented in Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy. The following articles/books/chapters in books look in depth at how Sterne satirises the patriarchy through his depiction of the Shandy men. I will be looking directly at how Sterne portrays the Shandy men — namely Tristram, his uncle Toby and his father Walter — and how they represent different aspects of the patriarchy. Homunculus Economicus : Laurence Sterne's Labour Theory of Literary

Question 1) Advice from McCurdy, Spradley, Shandy (2005) for the first interview included being offsite if possible to limit distractions, educating the participant and gaining their consent. As a starting point, the researcher should explain the research and ethnography letting the interviewee know what information we are looking for and why. Inform him or her that a series of questions will be asked or a survey will be given this way they know what to expect, there will be no surprises and may

Gulliver’s Travels, Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, and Rousseau’s First and Second Discourses “Now my father was then holding one of his second beds of justice, and was musing within himself about the hardships of matrimony, as my mother broke silence.— —My brother Toby, quoth she, is going to be married to Mrs. Wadman.” —Then he will never, quoth my father, be able to lie diagonally in his bed again as long as he lives.” (Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy) The eighteenth century

Tristam Shandy, A Gentleman's Life Tristam Shandy is the narrator of his own life story. The narrative is similar to an autobiographic account of his life, but the narrative goes farther than that. It examines his philosophy, provides a glimpse into the standards and ideals of the early 1700s. The work provides an interesting perspective on the life of a noble man of his time, At times the narration is humorous. Shandy cannot explain anything simply, but must embellish the tale with long explanations