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Author : Marvin Mudrick
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Jane Austen; Irony as Defense and Discovery written by Marvin Mudrick and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marvin Mudrick
Publisher : Berkshire Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1614728747
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Jane Austen written by Marvin Mudrick and published by Berkshire Publishing Group. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has there ever been a critic of Jane Austen equal to her verve, her animation and independence of thought? Marvin Mudrick’s Jane Austen: Irony as Defense and Discovery, his first book, was published in 1952, and remains a fundamental work of commentary on Austen. It is filled with idiosyncratic insights about what makes Austen’s novels so daring and alive. Mudrick writes, for example, that this book “began as an essay to document my conviction that Emma is a novel admired, even consecrated, for qualities which it in fact subverts or ignores.” He goes on to show Austen to be a writer of irreverent sensibilities who, despite the constricted circumstances of her life, managed to create in her novels an enduring microcosm of the larger world. Mudrick examines her writings as aspects of a developing personal irony, an irony that later became the vital principles of her art. It was her ironic detachment, he maintains, that enabled her to expose and dissect, in novels that are masterpieces of comic wit and brilliant satire, the follies and delusions of eighteenth-century English society—and of human society even today.
Author : Paula Byrne
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415286510
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (865 download)
Download or read book Jane Austen's Emma written by Paula Byrne and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sourcebook introduces not only Jane Austen's text, but also the literary and historical contexts and the many different critical readings that it has generated, from the time of its publication to the twenty-first century.
Author : Marie N. Sørbø
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401210896
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Irony and Idyll written by Marie N. Sørbø and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen’s worldwide popularity is not least due to the remaking of her novels for the visual media. Of the fifty-odd Austen related productions since 1938, forty-three of them adapt her novels to the various screens of cinema, television, computer and tablet. However, her attraction for film-makers is undoubtedly promoted by her own qualities. As a novelist, Jane Austen has been particularly recognized for her ironic voice, which dominates all her stories and gives the readers a peculiar perspective on her world. Do film-makers want this, and if so, how do they transmit her attitude of amused distance? In the present book, Marie N. Sørbø investigates the function and targets of irony in two novels and seven films. Irony and Idyll is the first book-length study of Austen’s irony since 1952, and the only comparative analysis of all the available screen adaptations of Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park. On the bicentenary of their publication, these novels continue to influence modern culture. Marie Nedregotten Sørbø has taught English literature at Volda University College, Norway, for many years, including courses on film and fiction. For her doctoral degree she wrote a dissertation on the reception of Jane Austen on screen. Sørbø has contributed the Norwegian chapters to the volumes on The Reception of Jane Austen in Europe (2007) and The Reception of George Eliot in Europe (forthcoming, 2015). She was part of the leadership of the European COST Action “Women Writers in History” (2009-13), and is a Principal Investigator in the HERA funded project “Travelling TexTs 1790-1914: The Transnational Reception of Women’s Writing at the Fringes of Europe” (2013-16).
Author : Peter James Malcolm Scott
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780389202820
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Jane Austen, a Reassessment written by Peter James Malcolm Scott and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1982 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book lifts Austen studies to a level of debate which is exciting, happy and tough. That she is one of the greatest philosopher-novelists of the Romantic Age is Peter Scott's conviction. He reads Mansfield Park as a ripe complex argument about discipline, Sense and Sensibility is valued as one of the great tragic novels of Europe, and Emma is viewed as brilliant but specious.
Author : Jane Nardin
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873952361
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Those Elegant Decorums written by Jane Nardin and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the way in which Austen blends ironic criticism with moral affirmation through her complex and little-understood management of the narrative point of view.
Author : Marie N. Sørbø
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004337172
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Jane Austen Speaks Norwegian written by Marie N. Sørbø and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can translations reveal about the global reception of any authorship? In Jane Austen Speaks Norwegian: The Challenges of Literary Translation, Marie Nedregotten Sørbø compares two novels and six translations of them. The discussion is entirely in English, as all Norwegian versions are back-translated. This study therefore lends itself to comparisons with other languages, and aims to fill its place as one component in a worldwide field of research; how Jane Austen is understood and transmitted. Moreover, this book presents a selection of pertinent issues for any translator, including abbreviation and elaboration, style and vocabulary, and censorship. Sørbø gives vivid examples of how literary translation happens, and how it serves to interpret and refashion literature for new readerships.
Author : Sandie Byrne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350309613
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Jane Austen-Mansfield Park written by Sandie Byrne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2004-10-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel of the author's maturity, Mansfield Park is complex, highly wrought, and experimental. It marks a transitional stage between the first two published novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, and Jane Austen's greatest achievements, Emma and Persuasion. It has been suggested that Mansfield Park is the writer's most autobiographical novel and that, in seeing through the eyes of Fanny Price, deemed the most moralising and judgemental of her heroines, we are seeing through the eyes of Austen herself. Though Fanny Price may be too virtuous for modern readers to take to their hearts, in Mrs Norris Austen creates one of her best, because most plausible, monsters; while in the estate of Mansfield Park itself we find some of the most fully realised descriptions of domestic interiors and exteriors in Austen's fiction. This Guide traces the response to Mansfield Park from the opinions of Jane Austen's contemporaries, through 19th century reviews and 20th century critical analyses, including deconstructionist, feminist, postcolonial and poststructuralist, to diverse 21st century approaches to the novel. Sandie Byrne selects the most useful and insightful of these responses and puts them in context, providing the reader with an essential and approachable introduction to the range of critical debate on this important novel.
Author : Shawn Normandin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000348512
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Jane Austen and Literary Theory written by Shawn Normandin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen was one of the most adventurous thinkers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but one would probably never guess that by reading her critics. Perhaps no canonical author in English literature has proven, until now, more resistant to theory. Tracing the political motives for this resistance, Jane Austen and Literary Theory proceeds to counteract it. The book’s detailed interpretations guide readers through some of the important intellectual achievements of Austen’s career—from the stunning teenage parodies "Evelyn" and "The History of England" to her most accomplished novels, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma. While criticism has largely been content to describe the various ways Austen was a product of her time, Jane Austen and Literary Theory reveals how she anticipated the ideas of formidable literary thinkers of the twentieth century, especially Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man. Gift and exchange, speech and writing, symbol and allegory, stable irony and Romantic irony—these are just a few of the binary oppositions her dazzling texts deconstruct. Although her novels are major achievements of nineteenth-century realism, critics have hitherto underestimated their rhetorical cunning and their fascination with the materiality of language. Doing justice to Austen’s language requires critical methods as ruthless as her irony, and Jane Austen and Literary Theory supplies these methods. This book will enable both her devotees and her detractors to appreciate her genius in unusual ways.
Author : Fiona J. Stafford
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195175301
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Jane Austen's Emma written by Fiona J. Stafford and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Claudia L. Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022615503X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures written by Claudia L. Johnson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnson begins by exploring the most important monuments and portraits of Austen, considering how these artifacts point to an author who is invisible and yet whose image is inseparable from the characters and fictional worlds she created. She then passes through the four critical phases of Austen's reception.
Author : Juan Ruiz
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438418280
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Book of Good Love written by Juan Ruiz and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1972-06-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571133941
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Jane Austen written by Laurence W. Mazzeno and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive look at the academic criticism of Jane Austen from her time down to the present. Among the most important English novelists, Jane Austen is unusual because she is esteemed not only by academics but by the reading public. Her novels continue to sell well, and films adapted from her works enjoy strong box-officesuccess. The trajectory of Austen criticism is intriguing, especially when one compares it to that of other nineteenth-century English writers. At least partly because she was a woman in the early nineteenth century, she was longneglected by critics, hardly considered a major figure in English literature until well into the twentieth century, a hundred years after her death. Yet consequently she did not suffer from the reaction against Victorianism thatdid so much to hurt the reputation of Dickens, Tennyson, Arnold, and others. How she rose to prominence among academic critics - and has retained her position through the constant shifting of academic and critical trends - is a story worth telling, as it suggests not only something about Austen's artistry but also about how changes in critical perspective can radically alter a writer's reputation. Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia University, Reading, Pennsylvania.
Author : Sue Parrill
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786481412
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Jane Austen on Film and Television written by Sue Parrill and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen's career as a novelist began in 1811 with the publication of Sense and Sensibility. Her work was finally adapted for the big screen with the 1940 filming of Pride and Prejudice (very successful at the box office). No other film adaptation of an Austen novel was made for theatrical release until 1995. Amazingly, during 1995 and 1996, six film and television adaptations appeared, first Clueless, then Persuasion, followed by Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, the Miramax Emma, and the Meridian/A&E Emma. This book traces the history of film and television adaptations (nearly 30 to date) of Jane Austen manuscripts, compares the adaptations to the manuscripts, compares the way different adaptations treat the novels, and analyzes the adaptations as examples of cinematic art. The first of seven chapters explains why the novels of Jane Austen have become a popular source of film and television adaptations. The following six chapters each cover one of Austen's novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey. Each chapter begins with a summary of the main events of the novel. Then a history of the adaptations is presented followed by an analysis of the unique qualities of each adaptation, a comparison of these adaptations to each other and to the novels on which they are based, and a reflection of relevant film and literary criticism as it applies to the adaptations.
Author : Mary Waldron
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139424971
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time written by Mary Waldron and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents Jane Austen as a radical innovator. It explores the nature of her confrontation with the popular novelists of her time, and demonstrates how her challenge to them transformed fiction. It is evident from letters and other sources, as well as the novels themselves, that the Austen family developed a strong scepticism about contemporary notions of the proper content and purpose of fiction. Austen's own writing can be seen as a conscious demonstration of these disagreements. In thus identifying her literary motivation, this book (moving away from the questions of ideology which have so dominated Austen studies in this century) offers a unifying critique of the novels and helps to explain their unequalled durability with the reading public.
Author : Enit Karafili Steiner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137432187
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey/Persuasion written by Enit Karafili Steiner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northanger Abbey was one of Jane Austen's earliest manuscripts; Persuasion was her last. Published together in a single volume after her death, the two books differ widely. Northanger Abbey is a spirited, Gothic parody, while Persuasion has increasingly been seen as a new direction for the Austen canon. The two texts have been widely analysed and debated since publication, and continue to be so today. In this Readers' Guide, Enit Karafili Steiner: - Delineates a clear trajectory through the books' many interpretations over two centuries, mapping these out thematically and chronologically. - Contextualises and brings into dialogue influential approaches such as psychoanalytical criticism, structuralism, deconstruction, Marxism, New Historicism, and feminism. - Discusses film adaptations of the novels and their relation to literary criticism.
Author : Wayne C. Booth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226065928
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Essential Wayne Booth written by Wayne C. Booth and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-07-15 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
