Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Pride and Prejudice written by Janet Todd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative Companion offers a combination of original readings and factual background information.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen written by Edward Copeland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to Austen's works in the contexts of her contemporary world and present-day criticism.
Download or read book Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-27 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, first published in 2006, is a fully annotated scholarly edition of Austen's most popular novel.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen written by Deborah Cartmell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-10 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular literature, fantasy, genre and adaptations for children. There are also case studies, such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the nineteenth-century novel and modernism, which allow the reader to place adaptations of the work of writers within a wider context. An interview with Andrew Davies, whose work includes Pride and Prejudice (1995) and Bleak House (2005), reveals the practical choices and challenges that face the professional writer and adaptor. The Companion as a whole provides an extensive survey of an increasingly popular field of study.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Pride and Prejudice written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two centuries on from the first publication of Pride and Prejudice in 1813, this Companion investigates some of the sources of the novel's power with a combination of original readings and factual background information.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis written by Vera J. Camden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining literature and psychoanalysis, this collection foregrounds the work of literary creators as foundational to psychoanalysis.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen written by Edward Copeland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully updated edition with seven brand new essays.
Download or read book Jane Austen in Context written by Janet M. Todd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-20 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively illustrated collection of short essays on a wide range of aspects of Austen's life, work and times.
Download or read book Postscript from Pemberley written by Rebecca Ann Collins and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventh in the bestselling Jane Austen sequel series from Australia
Download or read book Emma Persuasion written by Jane Austen and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "Emma & Persuasion" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "Emma" – Emma Woodhouse has just attended the wedding of Miss Taylor, her friend and former governess, to Mr. Weston. Having introduced them, Emma takes credit for their marriage, and decides that she likes matchmaking. Against the advice of her brother-in-law, Emma forges ahead with her new interest, causing many controversies in the process. Set in the fictional village of Highbury, Emma is a tale about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. "Persuasion" – Anne Elliot is a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family is moving to lower their expenses and get out of debt, at the same time as the wars come to an end, putting sailors on shore. They rent their home to an Admiral and his wife. Brother of Admiral's wife is Navy Captain Frederick Wentworth, a man who had been engaged to Anne when she was 19, and now they meet again, both single and unattached, after no contact in more than seven years. First time the engagement was broken up because Anne's family persuaded her that Frederick wasn't good enough opportunity. The new situation offers a second, well-considered chance at love and marriage for Anne Elliot in her second "bloom".
Download or read book A Companion to Jane Austen written by Claudia L. Johnson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting the dynamic and expansive nature of Austen studies, A Companion to Jane Austen provides 42 essays from a distinguished team of literary scholars that examine the full breadth of the English novelist's works and career. Provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date array of Austen scholarship Functions both as a scholarly reference and as a survey of the most innovative speculative developments in the field of Austen studies Engages at length with changing contexts and cultures of reception from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Byron written by Drummond Bone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-18 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byron s life and work have fascinated readers around the world for two hundred years, but it is the complex interaction between his art and his politics, beliefs and sexuality that has attracted so many modern critics and students. In three sections devoted to the historical, textual and literary contexts of Byron s life and times, these specially commissioned essays by a range of eminent Byron scholars provide a compelling picture of the diversity of Byron s writings. The essays cover topics such as Byron s interest in the East, his relationship to the publishing world, his attitudes to gender, his use of Shakespeare and eighteenth-century literature, and his acute fit in a post-modernist world. This Companion provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars, including a chronology and a guide to further reading.
Download or read book Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden written by Janet Todd and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eccentric Fran wants a second chance. Thanks to her intimacy with Jane Austen, and the poet Shelley, she finds one. Jane Austen is such a presence in Fran's life that she seems to share her cottage and garden, becoming an imaginary friend. Fran's conversations with Jane Austen guide and chide her - but Fran is ready for change after years of teaching, reading and gardening. An encounter with a long-standing English friend, and an American writer, leads to new possibilities. Adrift, the three women bond through a love of books and a quest for the idealist poet Shelley at two pivotal moments of his life: in Wales and Venice. His otherworldly longing and yearning for utopian communities lead the women to interrogate their own past as well as motherhood, feminism, the resurgence of childhood memory in old age, the tensions and attractions between generations. Despite the appeal of solitude, the women open themselves social to ways of living - outside partnership and family. Jane Austen, as always, has plenty of comments to offer. The novel is a (light) meditation on age, mortality, friendship, hope, and the excitement of change.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel written by Harriet Turner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel presents the development of the modern Spanish novel from 1600 to the present. Drawing on the combined legacies of Don Quijote and the traditions of the picaresque novel, these essays focus on the question of invention and experiment, on what constitutes the singular features of evolving fictional forms. It examines how the novel articulates the relationships between history and fiction, high and popular culture, art and ideology, and gender and society. Contributors highlight the role played by historical events and cultural contexts in the elaboration of the Spanish novel, which often takes a self-conscious stance toward literary tradition. Topics covered include the regional novel, women writers, and film and literature. This companionable survey, which includes a chronology and guide to further reading, conveys a vivid sense of the innovative techniques of the Spanish novel and of the debates surrounding it.
Download or read book Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text of Jane Austen's classic tale is accompanied by an introduction to the author's life and work and explanatory notes discussing the novel's historical context, language, characters, and themes.
Download or read book Mansfield Park Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook edition of "Mansfield Park & Pride and Prejudice" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "Pride and Prejudice" – Mr. Bennet of the Longbourn estate has five daughters, but his property is entailed, meaning that none of the girls can inherit it. His wife has no fortune, so it is imperative that at least one of the girls marry well in order to support the others on his death. The story charts the emotional development of Elizabeth Bennet who learns the error of making hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between the superficial and the essential. "Mansfield Park" – Frances "Fanny" Price, at age 10, is sent from her overburdened family home to live with her uncle and aunt in the country in Northamptonshire. It is a jolting change, from the elder sister of many, to the youngest at the estate of Sir Thomas Bertram, husband of her mother's older sister. Her aunt is kind but her uncle frightens her with his authoritative demeanor. Fanny's mother has another sister, Mrs. Norris, who doesn't like and mistreats Fanny. The story follows Fanny's development from troubling adaptation in the wealthy household, through turbulent adolescence, to marriage.
Download or read book Prose Fiction An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative written by Ignasi Ribó and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise and highly accessible textbook outlines the principles and techniques of storytelling. It is intended as a high-school and college-level introduction to the central concepts of narrative theory – concepts that will aid students in developing their competence not only in analysing and interpreting short stories and novels, but also in writing them. This textbook prioritises clarity over intricacy of theory, equipping its readers with the necessary tools to embark on further study of literature, literary theory and creative writing. Building on a ‘semiotic model of narrative,’ it is structured around the key elements of narratological theory, with chapters on plot, setting, characterisation, and narration, as well as on language and theme – elements which are underrepresented in existing textbooks on narrative theory. The chapter on language constitutes essential reading for those students unfamiliar with rhetoric, while the chapter on theme draws together significant perspectives from contemporary critical theory (including feminism and postcolonialism). This textbook is engaging and easily navigable, with key concepts highlighted and clearly explained, both in the text and in a full glossary located at the end of the book. Throughout the textbook the reader is aided by diagrams, images, quotes from prominent theorists, and instructive examples from classical and popular short stories and novels (such as Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Franz Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis,’ J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter, or Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, amongst many others). Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative can either be incorporated as the main textbook into a wider syllabus on narrative theory and creative writing, or it can be used as a supplementary reference book for readers interested in narrative fiction. The textbook is a must-read for beginning students of narratology, especially those with no or limited prior experience in this area. It is of especial relevance to English and Humanities major students in Asia, for whom it was conceived and written.
