Chapter 19 text reader

Madame, why are you so careless in reading this last chapter?I told you in there that my mother wasn't a Roman Catholic—a Catholic!Sir, you did not say this.Madame, please forgive me for repeating that I have told you clearly, in black and white, without ambiguity at all. —So, sir, I must have missed a page. —No, madam—you haven’t missed a word. —or else I dozed off, sir. — Madam, if you make such an excuse, it will hurt my self-esteem. —In that case, I will solemnly declare that I know nothing about it. —Madame, this is entirely your fault; as a punishment, I must make you go back and start over, that is to say, when you see the next full stop, go back and read the chapter again.

I let the lady atone for her faults in this way, not on my whim or cruelty, but out of good intentions; so that she will be grateful when she sees it all the way back. — This is a way to get rid of bad reading habits.This bad habit is not only hers, but many other readers are also unavoidable - blindly rushing forward when reading, only keen on watching adventurous and bizarre storylines, and not paying attention to absorbing rich knowledge and profound truths from the book, and this kind of book only needs to be read. Careful, it will definitely benefit the readers. Shandy by Lawrence Sterne (1759-1967)

Any novel, no matter how objective, always has a narrator, but not necessarily an object of narration.The object of the narrative is the reader's avatar or representative, but it is within the text.Victorian novelists used the phrase "Dear Reader" in a casual way; Kipling's novel "Mrs. Well arranged.The narrator "I" is also the narration object of the other three characters in the story, and these three characters constantly exchange roles.Italo Calvino begins his novel The Winter's Night Traveler by exhorting the reader to enter a state of receptivity: "Relax. Concentrate. Dismiss other thoughts. Let the world around you disappear. Finally close the door; the TV next door The machine is always on.” No matter how the narrative object is constructed, it is always a rhetorical technique, a means of controlling and accelerating the reader’s response outside the text.

Lawrence Sterne played between the narrator and the narrator under the guise of Tristeland's narrative tone, rather like a clown in a vaudeville theater, pre-installing some supporting actors in the auditorium, and let these people question from time to time, in line with his narration. Performance.Sometimes he entertains and enlightens other readers by turning the reader into a lady or a gentleman, asking questions, teasing, criticizing, or flattering. Shandy is a very different novel in which the eponymous narrator recounts his own life from conception to adulthood, but his narrative is never older than five years old.Because he wanted to describe everything faithfully and exhaustively, the result was often complicated and endless.Even though there is a front and a back, and the places where things happen are different, they are related to each other.Tristlan was in high spirits and tried his best to maintain the chronological order, but there was still no hope of success.In the fourteenth chapter of the novel, he is still trapped in the narration of the history before birth and cannot extricate himself.He mentioned the ironic fate of his father: only afraid of the name Tristlan, and accidentally christened his own son with that name.Here he declares: "If it had not been necessary for me to be baptized after birth, I would certainly describe the grand occasion of my baptism to the reader at this moment."

It's this one sentence (which appears after the excerpt) that gives the lady reader a clue as to her mother's religion, because, "Madam, if my mother had been a Roman Catholic, that wouldn't have happened." Reason According to a document (originally in French) copied by Triestlan, certain learned theologians of the Faculty of Divinity of the University of Paris agreed at the time that certain fetuses showing signs of dystocia could be injected with a "squirter" in the womb received baptism.Therefore, in Roman Catholic countries, it is possible for some people to be baptized before birth.

Stern's writing is characterized by both poking fun at Roman Catholicism (he is himself an Anglican vicar) and a penchant for making fun of human genitalia, for which he is sometimes accused.But he shows his unique wit and elegance in his rhetoric with "Madame" (the unique and free punctuation enhances his humor) and his narration to "Reader", which won the admiration of ordinary readers.Stern's vulgar style constitutes his unique artistic style.He sent the lady to reread the previous chapter, "Getting rid of bad reading habits... When you read, you just rush forward, only keen on watching adventures and bizarre storylines, and don't pay attention to absorbing rich knowledge and profound truths from books, and this kind of books As long as you read it carefully, it will definitely benefit readers.  …”

No wonder Shandy has been the favorite book of experimental novelists and novel theorists in this century.As I said in the previous section, modernist and postmodernist novelists also seek to free readers from reading only for the pleasure of the plot, by breaking the traditional fictional mold, cutting and reorganizing temporal and chain of cause and effect.Stern gives full play to human imagination, allowing the whims of the heart to determine the mode and direction of the narrative, which is ahead of Joyce and Virginia Woolf.One of the catchphrases of modernist poetry is "spatial form," meaning the unity of several interrelated themes in a literary work, which can only be grasped by "rereading" in the manner recommended by Tristram .

His dialogue with readers is more radical, spatializing the temporary nature of reading experience.He imagined the novel as a room in which we, the reader and the narrator, are shut together.Before the detailed narrative begins, for example, he announces that "this is a paragraph for the curious and inquisitive", and those who are not interested in these descriptions can skip over and say "close the door" It was a clever maneuver, since he was confident that we would stay voluntarily. In the above excerpt, one of our members, the lady, is sent off to reread the previous chapter, "turning back as soon as you see the next full stop" (there's a neat hint of the rules to be followed in reading).Those of us who stay with the author are honored to be trusted; while tacitly following the author's intentions, with those dull readers and many other readers who have bad reading habits and just want to see the plot of the story Draw a line.We are as confused as she is about Roman Catholicism, but we are not in a position to disobey the author's repeated defense of his writing method.