Laurence Sterne (homepage) [Click on image to enlarge it and mouse over text for links.] Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham. "… and looking up, I saw it was a starling hung in a little cage. Copper-engraving. The Starling. Vandalism?!?! I have given clue as to what it is he grabs in the article...I tried to add this to the article because there are more interpretations possible than just omission:
The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction. Along the way he decides to visit Maria—who was introduced in Sterne's previous novel, Because Sterne died before he could finish the novel, his long-time friend Without a passport at a time when England is at war with France (Sterne traveled to Paris in January 1762, before the Yorick returns to Paris, and continues his voyage to Italy after staying in Paris for a few more days. The caged starling of volume two exemplifies Sterne's technique of layering meaning upon meaning. Road to Versailles : I GOT into my remise the hour I proposed: La Fleur got up behind, and I bid the coachman make the best of his way to Versailles.
You can say the last word is omitted, or that he stretched out HIS hand, and caught HERS (this would be gramatically correct). The mystery of what Yorick grabs at the end of the book is an artefact of modern censorship (btw the public domain, Gutenberg, on-line version is censored). Versailles. I think I've done a nice job, but I'm sure it can use improvement, I'd like to hear comments or criticism. I cannot get out, said the starling). Engraver: Andrew Birrell. The starling as an actual bird then disappears from the narrative as Sterne begins to meditate on what its plight stands for: the starling stands for slavery (there's a bit of evidence for those who think slavery is an important subtext in this novel); it stands for thousands of misery. Countless ‘sentimental journeys’ appeared in Britain and the continent, with Sterne’s novel upheld as a pre-eminent exemplar of the ‘pathetic manner’. Another interpretation is that you incorporate 'End of Vol.
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. 43.
to I just added a plot summary to the article. smallest of details in A Sentimental Journey. The novel was extremely popular and influential and helped establish The narrator is the Reverend Mr. Yorick, who is slyly represented to guileless readers as Sterne's barely disguised During his stay in Paris, Yorick is informed that the police inquired for his passport at his hotel.
Road to Versailles - Character. In 1765, Sterne travelled through France and Italy as far south as Naples, and after returning determined to describe his travels from a sentimental point of view. 1917. Source: Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, facing page 86 in the 1801 edition.
This is a reference to the following sentence in A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, "The Passport, the Hotel De Paris." THE STARLING.
– 'I can't get out – I can't get out,' said the starling." A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a novel by Laurence Sterne, written and first published in 1768, as Sterne was facing death. Liveliest of literary talking birds is Laurence Sterne's starling, as told in A Sentimental Journey. I got into my remise the hour I proposed: La Fleur got up behind, and I bid the coachman make the best of his way to Versailles. I just think there is more than one interpretation possible; that's why this last sentence is fun and witty! The starling episode also effectively captures the newly-emerging taste for the sympathetic powers of sensibility that Sterne’s readers, and especially his continental admirers, avidly promoted. ROAD TO VERSAILLES.
In the novel the town I can't find much info on the sequel/continuation (what should we call it?) 11.7 cm high by 8.8 cm wide. The novel can be seen as an epilogue to the possibly unfinished work The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and also as an answer to Tobias Smollett's decidedly unsentimental Travels Through France … Artist: Thomas Stothard. 1792.
"The sentence is open to intepretation. I just added a plot summary, but I wonder if I got the locations right. From ‘A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy ... At Paris, the lad had laid out a livre in a little cage for the starling; and as he had little to do better, the five months his master stayed there, he taught it in his mother’s tongue the four simple words (and no more) to which I owed myself so much its debtor. II' into the sentence, so that he grabs the Fille de Chambre's 'End'." A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy The Starling. The Starling.