期刊名称：International Journal of English and Education
印刷版ISSN：2278-4012
出版年度：2015
卷号：4
期号：4
页码：320
出版社：Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要：Laurence Sterne’s nine-volume work, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,Gentleman (1759-67), is not customarily categorized as a typical eighteenth-century novel forthe reason that it bears a close resemblance to postmodernist novels, albeit it was written andpublished in the eighteenth century. One of the shared strands between Tristram Shandy and anumber of postmodernist novels, among other similarities, is narrative self-reflexivity. There arenumerous instances in Tristram Shandy that Sterne steps out of the narrative proper and directlyaddresses the readers and comments on the processes of writing in order to provoke readers’collaboration in the creation of meaning. Additionally, by employing textual and typographicalpeculiarities such as marbled and black pages, asterisks and dashes, Sterne aims to reinforce theself-reflexivity of his novel, and simultaneously defy the conventions of realistic novels. Thispaper is an attempt to study these instances of self-reflexivity in Tristram Shandy’s narrative.
