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Best known today for the innovative satire and experimental narrative of Tristram Shandy (1759–67), Laurence Sterne was no less famous in his time for A Sentimental Journey (1768) and for his controversial sermons. Sterne spent much of his life as an obscure clergyman in rural Yorkshire. But he brilliantly exploited the sensation achieved with the first instalment of Tristram Shandy to become, by his death in 1768, a fashionable celebrity across Europe. In this Companion, specially commissioned essays by leading scholars provide an authoritative and accessible guide to Sterne's writings in their historical and cultural context. Exploring key issues in his work, including sentimentalism, national identity, gender, print culture and visual culture, as well as his subsequent influence on a range of important literary movements and modes, the book offers a comprehensive new account of Sterne's life and work.

Sterne, Laurence, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768) --- Critique et interprétation

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Many famous antique texts are misunderstood and many others have been completely dismissed, all because the literary style in which they were written is unfamiliar today. So argues Mary Douglas in this controversial study of ring composition, a technique which places the meaning of a text in the middle, framed by a beginning and ending in parallel. To read a ring composition in the modern linear fashion is to misinterpret it, Douglas contends, and today's scholars must reevaluate important antique texts from around the world.Found in the Bible and in writings from as far afield as Egypt, China, Indonesia, Greece, and Russia, ring composition is too widespread to have come from a single source. Does it perhaps derive from the way the brain works? What is its function in social contexts? The author examines ring composition, its principles and functions, in a cross-cultural way. She focuses on ring composition in Homer's Iliad, the Bible's book of Numbers, and, for a challenging modern example, Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, developing a persuasive argument for reconstruing famous books and rereading neglected ones.

82-3 --- Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Homer. --- Sterne, Laurence, --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 82-3 Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Aʻdād (Book of the Old Testament) --- Ba-midbar (Book of the Old Testament) --- Bamidbar (Book of the Old Testament) --- Bamidbor (Book of the Old Testament) --- Be-midbar (Book of the Old Testament) --- Bemidbar (Book of the Old Testament) --- Kitāb-i Bi-mīdbār (Book of the Old Testament) --- Minsugi (Book of the Old Testament) --- Numbers (Book of the Old Testament) --- Numeri (Book of the Old Testament) --- Homer --- 82-3 Fiction. Prose narrative --- Fiction. Prose narrative --- Homer - Iliad --- Sterne, Laurence, - 1713-1768. - Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman