Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy: A Casebook
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Sterne and the "New Species of Writing" THOMAS KEYMER Q Q Q r THE PLURALITY of discourses and traditions that bump up 0 against one another in Tristram Shandy, two have dominated critical attempts to make generic (and hence interpretative) sense of Sterne's richly heteroglot text. One strain of criticism reads Tristram Shandy as a belated exercise in Renaissance learned wit ; the other as a parody (or, if the implications of its parodic gestures are pur— sued, a deconstruction) ...