Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Shandy


Related Topics

In the News (Tue 1 Dec 09)

  
  Search Results for "Shandy"
Walter Shandy 1,000, which he fancies will enable him to carry out all the wild schemes that enter into his head.
In Sterne s Tristram Shandy, Eug nius is made the friend and wise counsellor of Yorick.
(Sterne: Tristram Shandy.) 1 A nickname given by William Hone to Sir John Stoddart, editor...
www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col81&query=Shandy   (242 words)

  
 Lynch, Tristram Shandy Bibliography
The typographical effects in Tristram Shandy remind the reader both of his or her role in communicating, and of the ultimate inadequacies of writing as compared to speech.
Shandy becomes for Ehlers a means to Christian salvation, "a satiric norm for revealing the shortcomings of Walter, Toby, and particularly Tristram." For reactions, see Ostovich (item 83) and Loscocco (item 89).
Williams's thesis is that "Tristram Shandy is a narrative of narrative.
andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/Biblio/shandy.html   (7109 words)

  
 SparkNotes: Tristram Shandy: Characters
Tristram Shandy - Tristram is both the fictionalized author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy and the child whose conception, birth, christening, and circumcision form one major sequence of the narrative.
Shandy insists on having the midwife attend her labor rather than Dr. Slop, out of resentment at not being allowed to bear the child in London.
Shandy is singularly passive and uncontentious, which makes her a dull conversational partner for her argumentative husband.
www.sparknotes.com /lit/tristram/characters.html   (672 words)

  
 TRISTAM SHANDY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It sort of spirals in and out of control to the point where you really have no idea whether it will stay within the parameters of the story of the novel or of the story of the filmmakers who are trying to adapt the novel.
TRISTRAM SHANDY is cheeky, sly, irrepressible self-referential, and a side-splittingly spot-on lampooning of the whole filmmaking process.
Perhaps TRISTRAM SHANDY is a work of such a perverted and rollicking vivaciousness that it's no wonder that a British eye for comedy could have made it work so judiciously.
www.craigerscinemacorner.com /Reviews/tristam_shandy.htm   (1832 words)

  
 Tristram Shandy
The text purports, as the title indicates, to set out the "autobiography" of Tristram Shandy, however, the birth of the hero, which the author sets about to discuss on the first page, does not finally occur until volume iv and he is not breeched until volume vi.
Tristram Shandy is thoroughly performative, not so much a story but an extended act of and meditation on story-telling.
Sterne's narrative logic is one which favours the endless freeplay, the infinite possibilities of writing over the exigencies of plot, the logic of cause and effect and the desire for closure.
www3.iath.virginia.edu /elab/hfl0259.html   (339 words)

  
 Tristram Shandy on Hypertext
Tristram Shandy, written in nine separate volumes between 1759 and 1767, is among the most eccentric, extraordinarily complex, and endlessly convoluted works in English literature.
With its extensive linkings of characters, themes, and extraneous infomation, this hypertext will allow you, the reader, to whimsically jump from subject to subject within the text--just as Sterne has done in his formulation of this masterpiece.
You may read this text linearly, trace the development of a particular character or theme using the extensive series of links, or invent your own way to follow the chronology of the work.
www.sccs.swarthmore.edu /users/99/kearley/index.html   (300 words)

  
 Fooling around with Tristram Shandy - Muse
They say the 18th Century novel Tristram Shandy, a book meant to be a narrative of the title character's life but doesn't even get so far as his birth, is the least filmable novel ever written.
Tristram Shandy fools around with itself with aplomb, pulling back at the height of the birth scene to reveal the director and crew, and then follows the behind-the-scenes of Tristram Shandy for the rest of the film.
Nevertheless, Tristram Shandy is a star-packed (albeit with British ones) self-mocking industry satire that has a lot of wit, charm and, yes, a cock and a bull.
www.dailyfreepress.com /news/2006/02/16/Muse/Fooling.Around.With.Tristram.Shandy-1616680.shtml   (399 words)

  
 CD Baby: SHANDY LAWSON: Hellbound - from indiemusic
Shandy's voice is unique, like liquid sand, and he uses it to tell a mean story - dark, funny and true.
Shandy truly knows how to tell a story in song with a tinge of darkness always lurking.
Shandy Lawson is a storyteller from the dark side, singing tales of outlaws and ghosts and doomed souls.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/shandy/from/indiemusic   (384 words)

  
 Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story | Official Movie Site | Picturehouse
Michael Winterbottom's TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORY is a rollicking, inventive adaptation of the classic 18th Century comic novel "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" by Laurence Sterne.
A well-known though not necessarily widely read masterpiece, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" is a bawdy romp that plays with the techniques and conventions of the novel; its autobiographical speaker is prone to narrative excursions, direct addresses to the reader, and other eccentricities that make his tale anything but linear.
There is the self-consciously learned Walter Shandy, whose lofty plans for his son are continually thwarted; Walter's adoring, naïve brother, Uncle Toby, still obsessed by the war in which he sustained mysterious, never-discussed wounds to his private parts; and Dr. Slop, the physician whose bedside manner is not all it could be.
www.tristramshandymovie.com   (3239 words)

  
 Tristram Shandy
In fact, he began writing Tristram Shandy in his 47th year during a period of great personal unhappiness while his wife was suffering a nervous breakdown.
The peculiarities of the book are such that examining the originals are crucial to a real understanding of the startling originality of the text, with its intimate interweaving of verbal and visual elements.
Although Tristram Shandy was a great success and frequently republished, it was not universally liked and was disparaged by some critics as being pointless.
special.lib.gla.ac.uk /exhibns/month/oct2000.html   (999 words)

  
 Selected Readings Search Result: shandy
"The Anatomy of _Tristram Shandy_,".in Roy Porter, and Marie Roberts, eds., Literature and Medicine during the Eighteenth Century_ (London, 1993), pp.84-100.
Parnell, J. "'Que sais-je?' Montaigne's Apology, Hamlet and Tristram Shandy: Enquiry and Sceptical Response." Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 10 (1995): 148-155.
Zander, H. "'Non enim adiectio hæc eius sed opus ipsum est': Reflections on the paratext in Sterne's Tristram Shandy" [in German].
scripts.cac.psu.edu /special/C18/C18search.cgi?query=shandy   (684 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: Books: Laurence Sterne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The book is not a fictitious autobiography, although its narrator Tristram Shandy might have intended it to be; most of the story is concerned not with his life but with his idiosyncratic family and the circumstances surrounding his conception and birth, with many digressions on various related and unrelated subjects.
"Tristram Shandy" was published in nine volumes over the last nine years of Sterne's life, and whether these were all he had intended is debatable because the narrative is implied to have neither a beginning nor an end; it seems very much like a work in progress.
Tristram Shandy is a comic masterpiece, like Fielding's Tom Jones, which arose barely after the invention of the genre.
www.amazon.ca /Life-Opinions-Tristram-Shandy-Gentleman/dp/0141439777   (1472 words)

  
 CB Bassity's Tristram Shandy paper
Shandy revels in equivocation, tautology, double entendre, nebulous references, ambiguity, sophistry, and even condemns plagiarism by resorting to plagiarism, so that at times a reader could almost despair of knowing what he does mean.
Although, strictly speaking, if Shandy means not to speak a word about “it,” he can justifiably say he has not, if “it” refers to nothing—which makes the statement extraneous, but that would fit the logic of a work composed mostly of material that is extraneous by conventional standards.
Attempting to distinguish between the mind of Laurence Sterne and his personae Tristram Shandy and Yorick is pointless.
www.ionet.net /~cbb/Shandypaper.htm   (723 words)

  
 Favorite Books & Authors - Tristram Shandy
Rather, Tristram Shandy is a 444-page digression, a witty, intelligent excursion that takes the reader in many directions at once, without deviating from the overall message, which is that the reader should sit down, relax, and enjoy himself.
Walter Shandy knows a little about everything, but not enough about any one thing; due to his voracious appetite for the arcane and having too much time on his hands, he has come to some rather strange conclusions about human behavior, its causes and effects.
This, then, is Tristram’s dilemma: he was born to a family of oddballs, with odd ideas, and with ample time to pursue them to their most illogical conclusion.
www.williammichaelian.com /favoritebooks/tristramshandy.html   (603 words)

  
 :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story (xhtml)
Tristram Shandy begins with its hero about to be born and becomes so sidetracked by digressions that the story ends shortly after his birth.
And a scene in which a miniature unborn Tristram is seen inside a miniature womb; I was reminded of Stonehenge in "Spinal Tap." The explanations of the material include witty dinner-time conversation by Stephen Fry, playing himself playing an actor playing a literary theorist.
Boyce told me "Tristram Shandy" might sound a little like Charlie Kaufman's screenplay for "Adaptation," but he thinks it's closer to Truffaut's "Day for Night" (am I sounding a little like Jennie here?).
rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060216/REVIEWS/60206003/1023   (1025 words)

  
 Wheatens In Need - Shandy
She is an 18 month old Wheaten with a playful, happy and patient temperament, though she was born with bladder problems making her incontinent.
We have built in/outdoor shelters so that Shandy can spend a good part of the day outside, and only needs to be diapered when inside in the evenings, or are on cold days.
She is no longer living in the kitchen, and has free run of the house and even sleeps in the bedroom with the rest of the family, as close to big brother, Thatch (4yr old SCWT) as he'll allow.
www.wheatenrescue.org /shandy99.shtml   (180 words)

  
 USCCB - (Film and Broadcasting) - Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
Overall bawdy tone, rough language and some profanity, crude expressions, sexual situations and much innuendo, unrelated partial and rear nudity, brief full frontal child nudity including diaper changing and a crude sight gag, graphic childbirth scene, permissive view of premarital affair and parenting, adultery, a visual joke involving a womb.
We're talking about "Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story" (Picturehouse), which turns out to be a fitfully amusing saga of a movie crew attempting to film British pastor Laurence Sterne's novel, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman." The 1767 nine-volume work has always been considered unfilmable because of its wildly nonlinear structure.
Someday, "Tristram Shandy" may have cult status, for the film is certainly unusual, not to mention clever, in many ways.
www.usccb.org /movies/t/tristramshandyacockandbullstory.shtml   (572 words)

  
 'Tristram Shandy'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Laurence Sterne was the Woody Allen of his day, and "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" was considered the most outrageous, thigh-slappin' hilarious novel when it arrived in the 18th century.
Tristram's abortive efforts to tell his life story are so interrupted by digressions, tangents and irrelevant ruminations that he never even gets around to finishing the account of his own birth.
His movie adaptation of "Tristram Shandy" is a movie about the making of a "Tristram Shandy" movie, in which the actors play themselves as well as the story characters, and sections of the book are mixed in with the chaotic filming of it -- before, after, during and behind the scenes.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/06048/656557.stm   (621 words)

  
 Hypertext Tristram Shandy
I would go so far to say that this format is more "out of time" then the original print in which the novel was first written.
This was the first hypertext version of Shandy I came across.
By far the most impressive version of Shandy on the web today, this page recreates most of the essence of the novel's original print version, complete with page numbers and Stern's "doodles".
www.english.ilstu.edu /students/drhammo/tristram/htts.html   (318 words)

  
 ShandyLawson.com
Shandy's nominations are for Folk Album of the Year(Love, Money & Revenge), two nominations for Folk Song of the Year (The Invasion Of Chelsea and What I Did), Lyric of the Year (The Invasion of Chelsea), and Holiday Song (We Three).
You know things have really hit the fan when Shandy Lawson is recognized for a Christmas song.
Shandy is a proud endorser of ProCo Sound and John Pearse Strings
home.comcast.net /~shandylawson/index2.html   (168 words)

  
 Blogocentricity » Bandy to the Shandy
Apart from the beer and lemonade drink, it also means a periodic village market, usually held once a week, that is the mainstay of the rural economy.
Shandy day was Sunday, and as residents of Singanallur, it meant an exciting trip to the shandy ground, where farmers would sell their wares.
When we were actually lugging those bags around, we were just raring to get out of there back to our TV shows, or more often, games of cricket (usually), football (occasionally) or badminton (in the non-windy months).
www.blogocentricity.com /?p=219   (1678 words)

  
 Metromix. Movie review: ‘Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Yet such is the assurance of "Tristram Shandy" that it careens from jokes about the precise color shade of a vain co-star's discolored front tooth--"Tuscan sunset" and "pub ceiling" are two suggestions--to a rather sweet portrait of an addled, somewhat caddish actor's newfound domesticity.
The novel reads like the world's strangest memoir, in which Shandy recounts his batterings at the hand "of what the world calls Fortune," on "this scurvy and disastrous" planet.
But the flourishes--the movie is all flourishes, really--are deft and sharp and light on their feet, and in such moments as Coogan singing his son to sleep with "My Bonny Lies Over the Ocean," "Tristram Shandy" manages to burrow beneath the jokes for a moment before resuming the chase.
metromix.chicagotribune.com /movies/mmx-060217-movies-review-shandy,0,4358980.story?coll=mmx-movies_leftutility   (865 words)

  
 Amazon.frĀ : Tristram Shandy: An Authoritative Text, the Author on the Novel, Criticism: Livres en anglais: Laurence ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Narrated by Shandy, the story begins at the moment of his conception and diverts into endless digressions, interruptions, stories-within-stories, and other narrative devices.
The focus shifts from the fortunes of the hero himself to the nature of his family, environment, and heredity, and the dealings within that family offer repeated images of human unrelatedness and disconnection.
Sterne is recognized as one of the most important forerunners of psychological fiction.Sterne himself published volumes 1 and 2 at York late in 1759, but he sent half of the imprint to London to be sold.
www.amazon.fr /Tristram-Shandy-Authoritative-Author-Criticism/dp/0393950344   (485 words)

  
 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne - Penguin UK
Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate ‘hero’ Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr Slop, Corporal Trim and the parson Yorick.
A joyful celebration of the endless possibilities of the art of fiction, Tristram Shandy is also a wry demonstration of its limitations.
The text and notes of this volume are based on the acclaimed Florida Edition, with a critical introduction by Melvyn New and Christopher Ricks’s introductory essay from the first Penguin Classics edition of the novel.
www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9780141439778,00.html   (214 words)

  
 Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story Movie Review - Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story Movie Trailer - The Boston ...
Written during the 1760s, when the formal conventions of the modern novel were still coming together, Laurence Sterne's uncategorizable work is a prank and a sideshow -- an endless comic digression in search of a story line, full of puns and odd fonts and pages that are all fl or marbled like endpapers.
His new film "Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story" does to cinema what Sterne did to literature -- dismantles it with a shaggy-dog grin -- and if such gamesmanship isn't particularly novel (pardon the pun) in this day of Charlie Kaufman movies, the movie's still a wickedly droll put-on.
Sterne's "Tristram Shandy" is a cock-and-bull story indeed: a horselaugh at the notion that life can fit between the covers of a book.
www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=8153   (699 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Tristram Shandy - A Cock and Bull Story: DVD: Michael Winterbottom,Steve Coogan,Rob Brydon,Keeley ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Coogan and his co-stars, particularly Naomie Harris as the ultimate film nut, Gillian Anderson as the American brought in to boost the project's profile, and Brydon as Tristram’s Uncle Toby are as game for the challenge as their fearless leader.
Michael Winterbottom?s TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORY is a rollicking, inventive adaptation of the notoriously unfilmable British comic novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, written by Laurence Sterne.
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story is not about telling a story as much as it is about the inability to tell a story, and in failing to tell its story, it gives us one nonetheless.
www.amazon.com /Tristram-Shandy-Cock-Bull-Story/dp/B000EOTFBW   (2716 words)

  
 A Cock and Bull Story (2005)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Steve Coogan: Tristram Shandy, it was actually number eight in the top one hundred books of all time.
Hard to imagine that anyone could come up with an idea to bring this unusual book to the screen, and Michael Winterbottom hasn't been the most consistent of directors lately (or ever, really) but this is a winner.
The story is told in several layers: a film is being made of the novel "Tristram Shandy", starring Steve Coogan as both Tristram and his father Walter Shandy, but the behind the scenes drama of the making of the film is an important component.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0423409   (423 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Corpse in Oozak's Pond (Peter Shandy Mysteries): Books: Charlotte MacLeod   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
With his usual aplomb and the help of the college community and various bizarre local folk, Professor Shandy solves both problems to the vast enjoyment of readers.
This is one of the weaker novels involving Professor Peter Shandy, his librarian-wife Helen, and the colorful folks at Balaclava Agricultural College.
Perhaps it is indicative of the complexity of the interrelationships among the characters that the author chose to put a geneaological chart in the front of the book.
www.amazon.com /Corpse-Oozak-Peter-Shandy-Mysteries/dp/0445406836   (928 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.