论项狄传中的不确定性-英语语言文学专业论文.docxVIP

On On the Indeterminacy in By Zhao Guopeng Supervisor：Prof．Li Huifang Speciality：English Language and Literature Research Direction：English and American Literature Submitted to College of Foreign Languages In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts At Hebei Normal University September,20 1 0 学位论文原创性声明本人所提交的学位论文{On 学位论文原创性声明 本人所提交的学位论文{On the Indeterminacy in Tristram Shandy》，是在导师的指 导下，独立进行研究工作所取得的原创性成果。除文中已经注明引用的内容外，本论文 不包含任何其他个人或集体已经发表或撰写过的研究成果。对本文的研究做出重要贡献 的个人和集体，均已在文中标明。 本声明的法律后果由本人承担。 论文作者c签孙副币岛 指导教师确认(签名)： ’)o Io年I调f日 年 月 日 学位论文版权使用授权书 本学位论文作者完全了解河北师范大学有权保留并向国家有关部门或机构送交学 位论文的复印件和磁盘，允许论文被查阅和借阅。本人授权河北师范大学可以将学位论 文的全部或部分内容编入有关数据库进行检索，可以采用影印、缩印或其它复制手段保 存、汇编学位论文。 (保密的学位论文在——年解密后适用本授权书) 论文储(㈣：婀刚笔 指导教师(签名)： 、．，＼o年I嵋≮日 年 月 日 !II Abstract“1 Abstract “1 wrote not to be fed but to be famous．”Laurence Sterne and his Tristram Shandy offer perhaps the most valuable ease study of a mid-eighteenth century literary．His decision at ago 45 to turn an author is uniquely premeditated,yet his uncertainty about the conditions of authorship in the literary world is equally remarkable．Both his self-consciousness and his confusion c锄be found in his letters，Tristram Shandy,and A Sentimental Journey．They make up the history of his struggle to discover what is meant to be an author in his time．，nle book,砀P三ire and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,Gent．．is in a double sense identical with its subject：it embodies both Tristram’S life and opinions and Sterne’S act of writing．Tristram’S opinions stand midway between his life and the life of Sterne’s writing．An opinion is indeterminate,unfixed,a brief based not on absolute certainty or positive knowledge but what seems true to one’S own mind．Tristram’S b00k is ultimately an attempt to discover himself by divining his origins and identity within the context and history of his immediate family．Between chapters and incidents in the novel there is often no apparent connection． Blank pages，broken sentences，asterisks，das