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| Name: |
Laurence Sterne | | Birth Date: |
November 24, 1713 | | Death Date: |
March 18, 1768 | | Place of Birth: |
Clonmel, Ireland | | Place of Death: |
London, England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer |
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Biography of Laurence Sterne
1,316 words, approx. 4 pages
 The English novelist Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) produced only two works of fiction, but he ranks as one of the major novelists of the 18th century because of his experiments with the structure and organization of the novel. The English novel came of...
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Biography of Laurence Sterne
17,808 words, approx. 59 pages
 Laurence Sterne's enduring reputation as an author rests upon two works, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767) and A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768), both of which were written and published during the last...



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Laurence Sterne Quotes
1,865 words, approx. 6 pages
 Laurence Sterne ( 1713-11-24 – 1768-03-18 ) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy ; but he also published...


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Laurence Sterne Information
2,360 words, approx. 8 pages
 Laurence Sterne (November 24, 1713 – March 18, 1768) was an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and...




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 Yearbook of English Studies
Critical Essays on Laurence Sterne.
01/01/2000: 632 words, approx. 2 pages Critical Essays on Laurence Sterne. Ed. by Melvyn New. (Critical Essays on British Literature) New York: G. K. Hall; London, Mexico City, New Delhi: Prentice Hall International. 1998. xiii +335 pp. [pound]32;$49. With the demise of Kenneth Monkman, Melvyn New is...
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 The Independent - London
A good idea from... Laurence Sterne
12/05/1999: 399 words, approx. 1 pages IT'S SO hard to say what we feel. We're forced to rummage in a vocabulary box for the right label, but words are imperfect vehicles for conveying ourselves to others. We can't always make them capture nuances; bits of what we mean get left...
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 The New York Observer
Winterbottom\'d5s Chilly Brilliance
6/19/2007: 891 words, approx. 3 pages As Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, along with some cross-sampling of their kids and a marauding army of paparazzi, descended on Manhattan last week for the premiere of Ms. Jolieâs new movie, A Mighty Heart, there was one man who seemed conspicuously absent amid all...
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 The New York Observer
Winterbottom\'d5s Witty Tristram: Brits Battle in Meta-Comedy
2/5/2006: 1,886 words, approx. 6 pages Michael Winterbottom’s Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, from a screenplay by Martin Hardy, based on The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne, turns out to be a remarkably successful spoof of period-costume filmmaking by way of a wacky Pirandellian...



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Critical Essay by Howard Anderson
16,363 words, approx. 55 pages
 In the following essay, Anderson describes Sterne's novels as full of "surprises" and tries to show how a patient reader learns both to expect and be enlightened by these surprises (or unconventional narrative techniques) so that, ultimately, Sterne's novels "come to matter.…


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