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chaos.

Chaos Bound,

moral education appears again during the
post-circumcision debate in Shandy parlor, where the interpretive warfare of
polemic divines is measured against the practical religious morality of Toby
and Trim. In that episode Sterne satirizes the intellectual aggression and
narrowness of theological attempts to command obedience from others, and
offers in its place a version of Anglicanism that arises as much from duty or
habit as from intellec

or the univocal, stands the equivocal-that which speaks
double, or requires multiple interpretations-undermining the potential
normativity of any piece of writing.(12)

Bakhtin's entire theory of
dialogism is founded upon the normative status of the univocal, monologic
text, a normativity that is implicit in any discussion of the risks of
interpretive error. In their celebrations of multiple, conflicting
interpretations, however, Bakhtin and other twentieth-century readers of
Sterne have consequently de-emphasized an aspect of Sterne which he, in fact,
shares with Johnson and other contemporaries: the notion of intellectual
error as moral risk, a risk which Sterne clearly accepts and Johnson just as
clearly rejects in their reflections upon fiction-reading.(

plurality of entrances, the opening of networks, the infinity of languages

self-reflexivity

For Barthes, the readerly text, like the commodity, disguises its status as a fiction, as a literary product, and presents itself as a transparent window onto "reality.

artifice

rhetorical techniques which produce the illusion of realism

the goal of literary work (of literature as work) is to make the reader no longer a consumer, but a producer of the text"

thoroughly performative, not so much a story but an extended act of and meditation on story-telling

infinite possibilities of writing over the exigencies of plot

endless freeplay

e logic of cause and effect

desire for closure.

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;--they are the life, the soul of reading;--take them out of this book for instance,--you might as well take the book along with them; [...] restore them to the writer;--he steps forth like a bridegroom,--bids All hail; brings in variety, and forbids appetite to fail. (95)

self-reflexive

materiality of the text and undermines the apparent "naturalness" of its faux conversational tone.

insightful critiques of the illusion of linguistic transparency

non-linear narrative

regular appeals to the reader, and self-reflexive commentary

frustration of linearity