Tristram Shandy – The Playful Art of Seduction

Ana Cristina Băniceru

doi:10.2478/rjes-2013-0018

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Tristram Shandy – The Playful Art of Seduction

Romanian Journal of English Studies

Volume 10 (2013): Issue 1 (March 2013)

By: Ana Cristina Băniceru

Open Access

|Feb 2013

Abstract

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.

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