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CAMPBELL D BEAUTIFUL OBLIQUE - DUNCAN CAMPBELL ...

As Samuel Johnson noticed  there has always been something 'odd' about Tristram Shandy - a
literary autobiography that begins with the narrator's conception and ends before his birth.
However  while time has been recognized as being central to the narrative strategies of
Tristram Shandy   the role of time in the novel has rarely been examined in any substantive
detail. This book offers the first extended consideration of the representation of time in
Tristram Shandy . Its central argument is that the 'oddness' of the novel's formal and
typographical experimentation  fragmentation of narrative sequence  destabilization of the
autobiographical subject and emphasis on textual materiality derives from a radical conception
of temporality. In showing how Tristram Shandy conceives of temporality as an alterity that
disrupts both subjectivity and representation  this study not only provides a theoretical
commentary on the novel's temporal experimentation  but also demonstrates the continuing
importance of Tristram Shandy for the critical theory of fiction.

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