It occurred to me a few days ago that there is certain similarity between the writing method of Joyce and Sterne. Didn't both travesty earnest academical genres like Tractatus, Quaestiones and so on for literary purposes? The chapter on the nose in "The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy" is such a one. And both in "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake" one can find sufficient examples. Joyce even used footnotes, glosses and marginal notes. Though I knew before what both were doing with these passages, but I never brought both authors into connection with each other.
Is it only a coincidence?
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment