Tristram Shandy – The Playful Art of Seduction

• Authors: Ana Cristina Băniceru
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The main concern of a skilled storyteller is not to report a sequence of events, but to tell a ‘tellable’ story and to ward off the question ‘so what?’ coming from the listener. However, what happens when the story has little to recommend it as ‘tellable’? This is the case of Tristram Shandy who uses sexuality as elaborate rhetorical strategy to constantly tease and arouse his narratees’ imagination.

Keywords

EN

tellability; sexuality; rhetoric; anticipatory constituents

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 199-207

Dates

published

2013-03-01

online

2013-02-22

Contributors

author

Ana Cristina Băniceru

• West University of Timişoara

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2013-0018