Biblical Sterne by Ryan J Stark
Is Laurence Sterne one of the great Christian apologists? Ryan Stark recommends him as such, perhaps to the detriment of the parson’s roguish reputation. The book’s aim, however, is not to dispel roguishness but rather to discern the theological motives behind Sterne’s comic rhetoric, from Tristram Shandy and the sermons to A Sentimental Journey. To this end, Stark reveals a veritable avalanche of biblical themes and allusions to be found in Sterne, often and seemingly awkwardly in the middle of sex jokes, and yet the effect is not to produce irreverence. On the contrary, we find an irreverently reverent apologetic, Stark argues, and a priest who knows how to play gracefully with religious ideas. Through Sterne, in fact, we might rethink humour’s role in the service of religion.-
Early Modern Literature and the Bodies of a Reformed Eucharist
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The Late Walter Benjamin
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Wordsworth and English Literary Pilgrimage in the Nineteenth Century
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Creation and Apocalypse in Feminist Speculative Fiction
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Prayer and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing
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Theologies of Pain
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Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative
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The English Modernist Novel as Political Theology
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Jeanette Winterson and Religion
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The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace
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The Glyph and the Gramophone
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Activism and the Literary Self in 20th- and 21st-Century Literature
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Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse
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The Rhetoric of Conversion in English Puritan Writing from Perkins to Milton
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Food Restraint and Fasting in Victorian Religion and Literature
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Djuna Barnes and Theology
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Jesus in the Victorian Novel
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Christian Heresy, James Joyce, and the Modernist Literary Imagination
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Marilynne Robinson's Worldly Gospel
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England's Secular Scripture
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Jewish Feeling
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Blake. Wordsworth. Religion.
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The Bible in the American Short Story
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Faith in Poetry
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Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief
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Religion and American Literature Since 1950
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Resistance and the Sermon in American Literature
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Esoteric Islam in Modern French Thought
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Pentecostal Modernism: Lovecraft, Los Angeles, and World-Systems Culture
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Forgiveness in Victorian Literature
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The New Atheist Novel
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The Gospel According to the Novelist
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Dante and the Sense of Transgression
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Biblical Wisdom and the Victorian Literary Imagination
Biblical Sterne will change the way I think about all of Sterne’s works – something that can be said of too few works of scholarship* Jack Lynch, The Shandean *
Ryan Stark is Associate Professor of Humanities at Corban University. He is the author of Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-Century England (2009) and co-editor—with Tina Skouen—of Rhetoric and the Early Royal Society (2015). He has also published numerous essays on Renaissance and Enlightenment thought.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781350202894 |
| ISBN 10 | 1350202894 |
| Title | Biblical Sterne |
| Author | Ryan J Stark |
| Series | New Directions In Religion And Literature |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2022-08-25 |
| Number of pages | 184 |
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