Verfasst von:	Stark, Ryan J. [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Biblical Sterne
Titelzusatz:	rhetoric and religion in the Shandyverse
Verf.angabe:	Ryan J. Stark
Ausgabe:	paperback edition
Verlagsort:	London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney
Verlag:	Bloomsbury Academic
E-Jahr:	2022
Jahr:	[2022]
Umfang:	174 Seiten
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	New directions in religion and literature
ISBN:	978-1-350-17778-9
	$n© 2021
	978-1-350-20289-4
Abstract:	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
Schlagwörter:	(p)Sterne, Laurence
	(p)Sterne, Laurence    / (s)Religion <Motiv>
Sprache:	eng
RVK-Notation:	HK 3095
K10plus-PPN:	1857662989