{"product_id":"9780813069838-textual-and-critical-intersections","title":"Textual and Critical Intersections","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConversations with Laurence Sterne and Others\u003cbr\u003eIn this collection of essays representing fifty years of scholarship on Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New brings Sterne into conversation with other authors - both his contemporaries, such as James Boswell and Samuel Richardson, and modernists, such as Marcel Proust and James Joyce.\u003cbr\u003eIn this collection of essays representing fifty years of scholarship on Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New brings Sterne into conversation with other authors—both his contemporaries, such as James Boswell and Samuel Richardson, and modernists, such as Marcel Proust and James Joyce.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew begins by focusing on Sterne’s texts and their sources, discussing the purposes of his famous borrowings from past writings, his Anglicanism, and his reliance on John Norris of Bemerton. This section concludes with an argument for the removal from Sterne’s canon of “The Unknown World.” New then offers several readings based on placing diverse texts in proximity, Charles Dickens’s \u003ci\u003eDombey and Son\u003c\/i\u003e alongside the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, and Samuel Johnson’s “London” against T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. The final section offers several proximate readings of Sterne alongside his contemporaries, Jonathan Swift, Richardson, and Boswell, and modernist authors and texts—Proust, Bruno Schulz, Virginia Woolf’s \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e, and Joyce’s \u003ci\u003eA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs he brings these varied authors together, New suggests that literary greatness inheres in the uncertainties and mysteries—in the words of Keats—of works proven capable of attracting thoughtful attention over varying times and wide spaces. He encourages the continued teaching of these challenging texts in the future of literary studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54853481070966,"sku":"9780813069838","price":63.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_38147359_cc08cded-2731-4d03-b63b-7ace6c1daf90.jpg?v=1763753453","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780813069838-textual-and-critical-intersections","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}