Introduction

Chapter 1 Subversion of Plots

1.1 Young Tristram's Plot

1.2 Toby's Plot

1.3 Adult Tristram's Plot

Chapter 2 Language Questioned

2.1 Pictures against Writing

2.2 Gestures against Speech

2.3 Instable Words

Chapter 3 Circular Thematic Structure

3.1 Exposition

3.2 Development

3.3 Recapitulation

Chapter 4 Artistry of Digression

4.1 The Internal Paradigms

4.2 Digression as Rhetoric

4.3 The Integration of Digression and Story

4.4 The Regulation of Digression

Chapter 5 Structural Synchronism

5.1 Structural Radiation

5.2 Structural Multiplicity

5.3 Innovative Spirit

Chapter 6 Signification of Carnivalesque Narrative Art

6.1 Art as a Reflection of Tristram's Personality

6.2 Tristram as an Alter Ego of His Father and Uncle

6.3 Victory of Non-linearity

6.4 Aesthetic Effects

Conclusion

Primary References

Secondary References