The age of Renaissance focused on the chains of similarities, going from sign to sign.  Cervantes shaped an ironical picture of this configuration by the phantasmas of Don Quixote  . The 18th century constructed the tableau as an universal grammar. On this base, Linné constructed the genealogical trees of plants and animals as a tableau of life. An ironical picture of this configuration was given by Laurence Sterne in his Tristram Shandy .
The Renaissance focused on the chains of similarities, going from sign to sign. Miguel de Cervantes shaped an ironical picture of this configuration by the phantasmas of Don Quixote (part 1 - 1605) . The 18th century constructed the tableau as an universal grammar. On this base, Linné constructed the genealogical trees of plants and animals as a tableau of life. An ironical picture of this configuration was given by Laurence Sterne in his The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (part 1 - 1759) .
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (part 1 - 1759)