Author : Bharat Tandon
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 25,85 MB
Release : 2003-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 184331391X
An ingeniously innovative analysis of Jane Austen's work, a highly respected and engaging critical study.
Author : Bharat Tandon
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 184331102X
An ingeniously innovative analysis of Jane Austen's work, a highly respected and engaging critical study.
Author : Edward Copeland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 1997-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521498678
A comprehensive guide to Austen's works in the contexts of her contemporary world and present-day criticism.
Author : Katie Halsey
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1443810223
This collection of essays brings together eighteenth-century scholars from a variety of disciplines, to discuss conversation in the eighteenth century as concept and practice. At the heart of the volume is a simple question: are eighteenth-century conceptualisations of the role and purpose of conversation still relevant or useful to scholars and thinkers today? This volume contains essays by leading scholars of the period as well as early career researchers, and answers a need for a broad-ranging discussion of the concept of conversation in the arts, social sciences and humanities. The long eighteenth century is a particularly fruitful starting point for work on this topic, since ideas about conversation permeated all types of writing in this period, from the early forerunners of scientific textbooks to philosophical dialogues. The collection covers an exceptionally wide range of long-eighteenth-century authors, artists, lawmakers, texts and works of art, and, although the focus of the volume is largely on eighteenth-century Britain, the volume takes note of the rich relationships between continental European thought and British intellectual life in the period, and of the influence of British ideas in the newly independent American republic.
Author : Callihan Wesley
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,44 MB
Release : 2014-12-15
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ISBN : 9780989702867
Author : Oliver MacDonagh
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,93 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300054491
In this book a distinguished historian explores the novels of Jane Austen, showing how they illuminate English history in the quarter century before 1792 and 1817 and how, in turn, an appreciation of this period in history enriches our reading of the novels. Oliver MacDonagh paints a picture of Jane Austen's life and personality and of the social and political worlds she inhabited during and immediately after the Napoleonic Wars. Analyzing her letters as well as her novels, he shows how Austen's experiences and her reactions to events were woven into her fiction. Each chapter combines an examination of Jane Austen's ideas and conduct in a particular field with a consideration of her treatment of the same subject in one or more of her works. MacDonagh compares the place of the Anglican Church in her life to the role of the Church of England in Mansfield Park, juxtaposes her own family relations to those of the Elliots, Musgroves, and Crofts in Persuasion, and shows how her economic vicissitudes are reflected in the use of money as the moving force in Sense and Sensibility. In the same way, other chapters tackle the themes of girlhood and education, marriage and the contemporary female economy, and local society. In every case Austen's real and imagined worlds richly illuminate on another, providing new insights for all readers of her work.
Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,6 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1571133941
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 : Massimiliano Morini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 19,82 MB
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317111338
Combining linguistic theory with analytical concepts and literary interpretation and appreciation, Jane Austen's Narrative Techniques traces the creation and development of Austen's narrative techniques. Massimiliano Morini employs the tools developed by post-war linguistics and above all pragmatics, the study of the ways in which speakers communicate meaning, since Austen's 'wordings' can only be interpreted within the fictional context of character-character, narrator-character, narrator-reader interaction. Examining a wide range of Austen texts, from her unpublished works through masterpieces like Mansfield Park and Emma, Morini discusses familiar Austen themes, using linguistic means to shed fresh light on the question of point of view in Austen and on Austen's much-admired brilliance in creating lively and plausible dialogue. Accessibly written and informed by the latest work in linguistic and literary studies, Jane Austen's Narrative Techniques offers Austen specialists a new avenue for understanding her narrative techniques and serves as a case study for scholars and students of pragmatics and applied linguistics.
Author : D. A. Miller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2005-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 069112387X
D.A. Miller challenges the criticism that assigns the work of Jane Austen to an exclusively feminine readership & argues that this gendering of Austen's work has more to do with our perceptions of the author than of the literature.
Author : U. Olsson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 28,10 MB
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1137350997
Why does interrogation silence its object and not make it speak? Silence vs speech is a central issue in classical and modern literary works. This book studies literary representations of the power relations in which we are forced to speak using a range of texts ranging from the modern crime novel, via classics, to avant-garde plays.
