Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy (Legenda)

"One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term 'Shandean humour' in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne's humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. In tracing its hitherto under-recognised impact both on literary writers, such as Jean Paul and Herman Melville, and on philosophers, including Hegel and Marx, the collection reveals that Shandean humour is a Grenzganger - a point of commerce not only between Anglophone and German discourses, but also between literature and philosophy. Klaus Vieweg is Professor of Philosophy at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena; James Vigus is postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of English and American Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; Kathleen M. Wheeler is Reader in English Literature at the University of Cambridge." Style And Syntax As Catalysts Of Sterne's Humour In Tristram Shandy / Wolfgang G. Müller -- The Ruins Of Melancholy In Sterne's Tristram Shandy / Verena Olejniczak Lobsien -- From Personal Identity To Character: Sterne And Hume / James Vigus -- Literary Castlings And Backwards Flights To Heaven: Sterne's Über-humor In The Work Of Jean Paul Richter And Theodor Gottlieb Von Hippel / Klaus Viewig -- Consciousness, Time, And System: On The Structure Of Hegel's Phänomenologie Des Geistes In The Light Of Tristram Shandy / Tommaso Pierini -- Shandean Taylor Coleridge / James Vigus -- Karl Marx's Shandean Humour: Scorpion Und Felix And Its Aftermath / Duncan Large -- The Crafty Art Of Textual Pirating: Melville And Sterne / Kathleen M. Wheeler -- From Shandyism To Pataphysics: Sternean Influence In Alfred Jarry's Gestes Et Opinions Du Docteur Faustroll, Pataphysicien / Will Noonan. Edited By Klaus Vieweg, James Vigus And Kathleen M. Wheeler. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 163-177) And Index. One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term 'Shandean humour' in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne's humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. In tracing its hitherto under-recognised impact both on literary writers, such as Jean Paul and Herman Melville, and on philosophers, including Hegel and Marx, the collection reveals that Shandean humour is a Grenzgänger -- a point of commerce not only between Anglophone and German discourses, but also between literature and philosophy This book investigates how Laurence Sterne's humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction. It reveals that Shandean humour is a Grenzganger a point of commerce between English and German literature and philosophy.