Paper Ontologies: Reading Sterne with Bruno Latour

TY - JOUR

T1 - Paper Ontologies

T2 - Reading Sterne with Bruno Latour

AU - Lupton, Tina Jane

PY - 2017/2/23

Y1 - 2017/2/23

N2 - This article takes a critical approach to the possibility of applying Bruno Lator’s work to Tristram Shandy. Sterne is both reflexive about the impossibility of representing the material work and determined to do just that in relation to his book. But these are competing tendencies in Latour’s terms, difficult to judge in the context of a single work. Latour’s recent language for Fiction as a “mode” ultimately leaves us without a way to distinguish between texts that are self-conscious and those that aren’t

AB - This article takes a critical approach to the possibility of applying Bruno Lator’s work to Tristram Shandy. Sterne is both reflexive about the impossibility of representing the material work and determined to do just that in relation to his book. But these are competing tendencies in Latour’s terms, difficult to judge in the context of a single work. Latour’s recent language for Fiction as a “mode” ultimately leaves us without a way to distinguish between texts that are self-conscious and those that aren’t

U2 - 10.1080/0950236X.2016.1228848

DO - 10.1080/0950236X.2016.1228848

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0950-236X

SP - 299

EP - 313

JO - Textual Practice

JF - Textual Practice

ER -