ENGL 101W Chapter Notes - Chapter Satire & Irony: Laurence Sterne, Tony Lumpkin, Exegesis
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Parodies of romance conventions: hideous reeking giants instead of enchanted animals. Many great satires are fragmentary/unfinished-->stressed the difficulty of. 1. states world is full of folly, crime & injustice but still real & worth improving. Satire goes too far: tendency to self-parody; communication (e. g. laurence sterne"s tristam shandy) Satiric fantasy tends to question not only our reason but also our perceptions. or pleasant wonderland. Also takes place in the world of experience, thus heroism is impossible. Different from satire in that no moral ideal seems possible. Bitterness & resignation sometimes revealed: relentless cycle of life. Stoical (impassive, indifferent) characters who can distinguish good from evil. Upper classes manner (young marlow performed with such a bad manner toward mr. Hardcastle) dramatic irony which started from a prank. The tale presents a consistent satire of religious excess, while the digressions are a series of parodies of contemporary writing in literature, politics, theology, biblical exegesis.
