Composition and Metalepsis in "Tristram Shandy"

John Pier (1)

1 CRAL - Centre de recherches sur les arts et le langage

Three closely interrelated features of Laurence Sterne's novel "Tristram Shandy" are examined : the central event which constitutes the work as a text with a subject, the rhetorical figures which contribute to the structuring of the discourses of two of the principal characters and the metaleptic quality of the narrator's discourse.

Mots clés: Narratology; Laurence Sterne (1713-1768); Tristram Shandy; Metalepsis

Domaines: Littératures

John Pier. Composition and Metalepsis in "Tristram Shandy". Usure et rupture / Breaking points., Centre d'études et de recherches sur la culture anglo-américaine d'Orléans. - CERCA; Groupe de recherches anglo-américaines de Tours - GRAAT, Sep 1995, Tours, France. p. 87-104. ⟨hal-01229535⟩