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Lindsmyr, Christina. "Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Humanities (HUM), 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-827.
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Asker, Rebecca. "Money and Love in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-13040.
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In the late 18th century, it was not uncommon that a middle class woman had to choose if her marriage should be based on love or money. Since women often depended on either a husband or male relatives to support them, marriage was a way to avoid economic hardship. Pride and Prejudice gives many examples of women in this situation, and it is evident that both men and women are affected by economy and social class in their choice of a partner. The purpose of this essay is therefore to look closer on how the courtships in the novel are influenced by economy and class. Some characters are greedy and believe that wealth and an upper class life equals happiness. The wealthy man Mr. Darcy becomes suspicious of women and believes that they are only after his money. Women are also seen as commodities; wealthy men expect to be able to marry whomever they like regardless of the woman’s feelings. I will show that there are three main types of marriages in the novel: marriages based on financial considerations, marriages based on infatuation, and marriages combining love and money. Marriages based on financial considerations are not ideal since emotional needs are not often fulfilled. However, in some cases it might be a solution for women who do not have the time to wait for a romantically and economically fulfilling marriage. Marriages that include no financial considerations at all are not ideal since a stable economy is important to live happily. In the essay, I will show that the most ideal marriages are those who combine both love and money, as they ignore neither emotional needs nor economy.
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Tanrivermis, Mihriban. "Female Voice In Jane Austen: Pride And Prejudice And Emma." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606716/index.pdf.
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This thesis analyses the devices manipulated by Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice and Emma to foreground the &lsquofemale voice&rsquo
. The thesis argues that in these novels satire including irony and parody is used as a tool for revealing the place of women in eighteenth century England. In addition, themes and characters by which feminist conversations are constructed are also dealt with.
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Barcsay, Katherine Eva. "Profit and production : Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice on film." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/5152.
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Adaptation from literature to film has always been a much criticized enterprise, with fidelity
criticism, or an attempt to discredit fidelity criticism, often driving the critical discussion.
However, this type of thinking is somewhat limited, becoming circular and going nowhere
productive. Instead, taking into account what has come before, this thesis attempts to settle
on a method of examination that moves away from fidelity criticism and towards an approach
that aligns itself with cultural studies. Adaptations, then, can be seen as products of the
historical, cultural, political and general socio-economic framework out of which they
emerge, owing perhaps more to their context of production than to their source material. In
order to provide a case study that reflects this idea, this paper looks to an author who has
been adapted on multiple occasions, Jane Austen, and examines her as a cultural construct.
Looking at Austen’s most popular novel, Pride and Prejudice, and using Robert Z. Leonard’s
Pride and Prejudice (1940), Cyril Coke’s Jane Austen ‘s Pride and Prejudice (1980), Simon
Langton’s Pride and Prejudice (1995), Andrew Black’s Pride and Prejudice: A Latter Day
Comedy (2003), Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and Prejudice (2004) and Joe Wright’s Pride &
Prejudice (2005), the thesis argues that the appeal of Austen is a result of her cult status and
economic viability, and also the malleability of her text, which allows filmmakers to use it in
a number of different contexts, while still embodying the source material.
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Sabbatini, Isabela. "Modernizando a mulher independente: de Pride and Prejudice a The Lizzie Bennet Diaries." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8160/tde-30012018-184318/.
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O objetivo deste trabalho é estudar o vlog The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (2012-2013), dos adaptadores Bernie Su e Hank Green, como adaptação feminista do romance Pride and Prejudice (1813), da escritora inglesa Jane Austen. Parte-se inicialmente de uma definição de vlog, verificando as peculiaridades formais e técnicas deste formato, para em seguida observar como se deu a adaptação do romance inglês que lhe serviu de inspiração. Trata-se de um estudo descritivo, conforme o proposto por Toury (1995), do processo de adaptação, buscando verificar quais os procedimentos e tipos mais frequentes, considerando os conceitos de adaptação propostos por Sanders (2006) e Hutcheon (2006), e associando-os a teorias de Estudos da Tradução, principalmente Lefevere (1992), bem como as considerações teóricas de Elliot (2003) sobre adaptação. A análise femisnista de Austen e sua obra baseia-se principalmente nos estudos de Johnson (1990) e Kaplan (1992).The aim of this work is to study the vlog The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (2012-2013), by adapters Bernie Su and Hank Green, as a feminist adaptation of Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice (1813). It starts with the definition of vlog, checking the formal and technical peculiarities of this format, so as to see how the adaptation of the English novel which inspired it took place. It is a descriptive study, as proposed by Toury (1995), of the adaptation process, seeking to verify the most frequent procedures and types, considering the adaptation concepts as proposed by Sanders (2006) and Hutcheon (2006), and associating them with Translation Studies theories, mainly Lefevere (1992), as well as the theoretical considerations by Elliot (2003) on adaptation. Feminist analysis of Austen and her work is mainly based on the studies of Johnson (1990) and Kaplan (1992).
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Nelson, Heather. ""Till this moment, I never knew myself" : developing self, love, and art in Jane Austen's Sense and sensibility, Pride and prejudice, and Emma /." Electronic thesis, 2005. http://etd.wfu.edu/theses/available/etd-06022005-194043/.
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Dias, Nara Luiza do Amaral. "A razão em Jane Austen: classe, gênero e casamento em Pride and Prejudice." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-11042016-122754/.
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O presente trabalho faz um estudo crítico de Pride and Prejudice (1813), de Jane Austen, buscando mostrar aproximações da obra com as mudanças sociais, políticas, econômicas e ideológicas que ocorreram na Inglaterra da passagem do século XVIII ao XIX, a partir da ascensão da burguesia. Com base na construção feita da heroína Elizabeth Bennet como uma personagem racional, em oposição às demais personagens do romance, contrastes de classe e gênero são explorados, de modo a conduzir a análise para uma interpretação da maneira como o casamento (atuação social principal de mulheres de certa classe no período) é desenvolvido ao longo de todo o romance, acabando por se tornar o fio condutor da narrativa uma verdadeira investigação de significados sociais desenvolvida pela autora.This work brings a critical study of Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice (1813). It aims to show the approaches between the book and social, political, economic and ideological transformations that took place in England in the transition of the eighteenth century to the nineteenth, since the rise of the bourgeoisie. Based on the construction of the heroine Elizabeth Bennet as a rational character, in opposition to the other characters of the novel, class and gender contrasts are explored in order to conduct the analysis to an interpretation of how the marriage (the main social activity of women of a certain class in the period) is developed throughout the novel, eventually becoming the underlying theme of the narrative a true research of social meanings developed by the author.
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Van, Rensburg Lindsay Juanita. "The idea of the hero in Jane Austen’s Pride And Prejudice." University of the Western Cape, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4857.
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Magister Artium - MAIn this thesis I focus on the ways I believe Jane Austen re-imagines the idea of the hero. In popular fiction of her time, such as Samuel Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison (1753), what we had as a hero figure served as a male monitor, to guide and instruct the female heroine. The hero begins the novel fully formed, and therefore does not go through significant development through the course of the novel. In addition to Sir Charles Grandison, I read two popular novels of Austen’s time, Fanny Burney’s Cecilia and Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda. An examination of Burney’s construction of Delvile and Edgeworth’s construction of Clarence Hervey allows me to engage with popular conceptions of the ideal hero of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Burney and Edgeworth deviate from these ideals in order to accommodate conventions of the new Realist novel. I argue that Austen reimagines her male protagonist so that hero and heroine are well-matched and discuss, similarly, how Burney and Edgeworth create heroes as a complement to their heroines. Austen’s re-imagining of her male protagonist forms part of her contribution to the genre of the Realist novel. Austen suggests the complexity of her hero through metaphors of setting. I discuss the ways in which the descriptions of Pemberley act as a metaphor for Darcy’s character, and explore Austen’s adaptations of the picturesque as metaphors to further plot and character development. I offer a comparative reading of Darcy and Pemberley with Mr Bennet and Longbourn as suggestive in understanding the significance of setting for the heroine’s changing perceptions of the character of the hero. I explore Austen’s use of free indirect discourse and the epistolary mode in conveying “psychological or moral conflict” in relation to Captain Wentworth in Persuasion and Mr Knightley in Emma, offering some comparison to Darcy. This lends itself to a discussion on the ways in which Austen’s heroes may be read as a critique of the teachings of Lord Chesterfield’s Letters to His Son (1774). I conclude the thesis with a discussion of the ways in which Darcy has influenced the stereotype of the modern romance hero. Using two South African romance novels I suggest the ways in which the writers adapt conventions of writing heroes to cater for the new black South African middle class at which the novels are aimed. My reading of Jane Austen’s novels will highlight the significance of Austen’s work in contemporary writing, and will question present-day views that the writing of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries is not relevant to African literature.
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Hamilton, Sylvia N. "Constructing Mr. Darcy : tradition, gender, and silent spaces in Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice /." Read online, 2008. http://library.uco.edu/UCOthesis/HamiltonSN2008.pdf.
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Jasper, Grace M. "Appropriating Austen: Pride and Prejudice and the Feminist Possibilities of Adaptation." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/869.
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In this thesis, I maintain that a focus on a narrowly defined sense of ‘fidelity’ is used to discourage and devalue adaptations that work to comment on class, racial, and gender dynamics that the original author did not. An emphasis on strict fidelity can also be a misogynistic response to Austen adaptations’ popularity among young women. While certainly one may have legitimate aesthetic concerns in regards to adaptations of any form—novel, film, YouTube, or otherwise—it is important to scrutinize the claim that such artistic differences are not, in fact, rooted in general disdain for narratives and media embraced by, or seemingly embraced by, women (particularly young women). Just as importantly, the motivations of those claiming to produce feminist narratives must be equally scrutinized, as I have found that these content producers at times use the very real misogyny directed at young women and their interests in order to shield themselves from criticism of their own portrayals of women and feminism. I discuss the discourse around contemporary film and book adaptations of Pride and Prejudice, as well as evaluate two recent adaptations that have made waves in popular culture: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and The Lizzie Bennet Diaries.
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Veras, Adriane Ferreira. "Pride and proliferation : Jane Austen meets zombies in a mash-up." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/131633.
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O presente trabalho é uma tentativa de elucidar o que eu considero um fenômeno na literatura, os mash-ups. Em 2009 a lista dos livros mais vendidos da New York Times trouxe um novo romance intitulado Orgulho e Preconceito e Zombies. A editora Quirk Books apresentou como autor Seth Grahame-Smith e a romancista inglesa há muito falecida Jane Austen como co-autora. O livro combina o texto clássico de Austen de 1813 com elementos da moderna ficção de zumbis. O objetivo desta pesquisa é estudar a (desconcertante) possibilidade de alguém modificar uma obra-prima. A autora ainda está presente em seu texto, ou aquele que insere, remixa e acrescenta ao trabalho é o real autor? Esta e outras perguntas são investigadas. Com o aporte teórico de Sanders (2006), Shields (2010), Lessig (2004), faz-se a investigação sobre adaptações, colagens, apropriações e direitos autorais. O romance aqui analisado pertence à literatura não mais protegida por direitos autorais e, portanto, é considerado apto para modificações, permitindo, assim, a justaposição que está no centro do gênero literário sob escrutínio. O tremendo sucesso comercial deste mash-up serve para mostrar que não só Jane Austen, mas também os mortos-vivos são transformados em mercadorias, o que conduz às possíveis conclusões de que Austen vende, os zumbis vendem, e ambos dão aos leitores algo que estes anseiam, talvez maneiras mais suaves, romance, costumes e valores de outrora; no caso dos mortos-vivos, eles exploram temas que transgredem e ameaçam nosso senso de asseio e decoro, particularmente no tocante ao corpo, às nossas identidades, e a nossa mortalidade. Através de olhares como o de Žižek (2008), pode-se inferir que o sucesso do livro pode ser visto como um tributo ao poder do marketing viral, ao interesse duradouro e contínuo em Jane Austen, e ao atual zeitgeist zumbi.The present research brings an attempt to elucidate what I consider a phenomenon in literature, the mash-ups. In 2009 the New York Times Bestseller List featured a new novel entitled Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Publisher Quirk Books presented as author Seth Grahame-Smith and long dead and beloved English novelist Jane Austen as co-author. The book combines Austen‘s 1813 classic text with elements of modern zombie fiction. The aim of this research is to study the (disconcerting) possibility of someone tweaking with a masterpiece. Is the author still present in her text or the one who inserts, remixes and adds to the work is the actual author? This and other questions are investigated. With the theoretical approach of Sanders (2006), Shields (2010), Lessig (2004), and others, there is an investigation on adaptations, collage, appropriations and authorial rights. The novel analyzed here is literature no longer protected by copyright and therefore considered apt for tweaking, thus allowing for the juxtaposition which is at the core of the literary genre under scrutiny. This mash-up‘s tremendous commercial success goes to show that not only Jane Austen, but also the undead have become commodities, which leads the possible conclusions that Austen sells, and zombies sell, and they all give readers something they crave for, perhaps gentle manners, romance, mores and values long gone; and in the case of the living-dead, they explore themes that transgress and threaten our sense of cleanliness and propriety, particularly referencing the body, our identities, and our mortality. Through the point of view of Žižek (2008), and other thinkers, it is possible to infer that the book's success may be regarded as a tribute to the power of viral marketing, to the long lasting and continuous interest in Jane Austen, and to the current zombie zeitgeist.
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Goldstein, Lynsey. "Finding the Funny in Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies as Screwball Comedy." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/320114.
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Spurr, Tanja. "Fallible Fathers in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Pride and Prejudice." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-160160.
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Using Mansfield Park and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, this essay will show how Sir Thomas and Mr Bennet fail in their role as fathers, related to expectations in the social context, and how their failure is necessary for the eventual marriages of the heroines, Fanny Price and Elizabeth Bennet. The fathers’ failure also leads to the elopement of Maria Bertram and Lydia Bennet. Sir Thomas and Mr Bennet’s failure is the result that comes from their need to counteract the overindulgence of Mrs Norris and Mrs Bennet. Judith Butler’s theory of gender performance will be used in this essay to show how Sir Thomas and Mr Bennet do not conform to their gender, as is shown through their repeated actions in the novels. The gender performance of these characters reveals the need for fluid gender roles for the happy ending.
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Sandy, Silav. "Thematic Oppositions in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-55341.
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This essay examines anticipation and real outcome structured as two oppositions in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. These opposites will be analyzed through Austen’s use of literary devices such as “free indirect speech” and irony. Pride and Prejudice is written in third-person, but the focus is often limited to Elizabeth’s perspective, creating what is termed free indirect speech, a narrative technique that Austen is considered to be one of the first novelists to use. While the omniscient narrator seems all-knowing and gives the illusion of being objective, she is deliberately selective in her choice of what aspects of the story that she wants to emphasize, which makes her subjective. That the narrator is both objective/omniscient and subjective/limited brings out an opposition between the anticipated and real outcome. Austen also uses irony as a literary device, which too can be interpreted as a kind of opposition used to bring out anticipated and real outcome.
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Kong, Pui-ming Ivy. "Between romance and realism : patterns of fulfillment in Ann Radcliffe's 'A Sicilian Romance' and Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21161513.
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Nygren, Matilda. "The Importance of Gender Structures for Characters in Pride and Prejudice." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-150996.
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Abstract My research questions are: why are there differences in how the four characters (Mr Collins, Charlotte, Lady Catherine de Bourgh and Mary) react to and adapt themselves to the social definitions of male and female roles? What were the social ideas about gender roles in the 18th century and how are these connected to the expressions and actions of my characters? How are the differences significant to the plot and the story of the four characters mentioned above; in other words, what are the consequences of the differences in their social life? As method in writing this essay I have used the primary source Pride and Prejudice, Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity and secondary sources such as different kinds of books and articles. These sources helped me to understand what it was like to live in the 18th century. Writing this essay has provided me with the insight that the gender performances of the characters reveal a complexity which might not be expected.
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Abdulhaq, Hala M. "Representations of Women’s Oppressions in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2016. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cauetds/55.
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This study examines Jane Austen’s realistic interpretations of eighteenth-century English society with a particular focus on representing women’s oppressions in Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. Austen, in these three novels, criticizes several issues related to women’s status in English society and focuses on how men and women should be treated equally. In the novels, she argues that English society creates social order, women’s oppressiveness, and gender inequality through arbitrary social norms and traditions.
This paper mainly focuses on two areas that restrict women’s roles in their society: the marriage plot and the educational system. Austen’s purpose of presenting these issues is to voice women’s rights and improve their conditions. She also offers her readers unusual descriptions of female characters in order to correct the stereotypical images of women during the period. Finally, this paper aims to show Austen’s success in redefining women’s status and change the misconceptions of women in British society.
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Campos, Priscila da Silva. "Concepções de leitura e de leitores em pride and prejudice e sense and sensibility de Jane Austen." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2017. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/12980.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPESJane Austen is an important English writer at the turn of the eighteenth into the nineteenth century. She is praised for her vivid description of the English society, the development of important narrative techniques, and the deep psychological treatment of her characters. In her six novels, Austen discusses social and literary issues that were important in her day. Therefore, Austen’s fiction has been the subject of a wealth of critical studies. Nonetheless, there is an aspect of her fiction that has not been sufficiently studied yet, namely, the notions of reading and readers. Two novels are especially meaningful to discuss this issue: Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Sense and Sensibility (1811). Thus, this study aims to identify and discuss the notions of reading and readers in both novels. The characters/readers of each novel are analyzed with regards to their individual attitude as readers of fictional and non-fictional texts and of the circumstances they live. The analysis enables us to discuss the notions of reading and readers that the author defends or criticizes. We can affirm that this topic was not only an important subject for Jane Austen and the English society, but also an internalized and structuring aspect of her novels. The reading and re-reading process experienced by Austen’s characters allows for their psychological depth once the narrative voice penetrates into the characters’ consciousness or moves away from them in order to comment on and evaluate their attitude as readers. In both novels, the author discusses the process of internalization and subjectivation of reading. Therefore, through the different notions of reading and readers present in Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, Austen not only defends the importance of reading and re-reading for the reader’s intellectual and emotional maturity (an issue that is still topical), but also opens up new perspectives for the novel as a literary genre.
Jane Austen é uma importante escritora inglesa da virada do século XVIII para o XIX, aclamada pela vívida descrição da sociedade inglesa, pelo desenvolvimento de importantes técnicas narrativas e pelo aprofundamento psicológico de suas personagens. Além disso, em seus seis romances, Austen discute questões sociais e literárias importantes para sua época. Assim, a obra de Jane Austen possui fortuna crítica extensa. Todavia, há um aspecto de seus romances ainda insuficientemente estudado: as concepções de leitura e de leitores neles elaboradas. Dois romances representativos dessa questão são Pride and Prejudice (1813) e Sense and Sensibility (1811). Em vista disso, este estudo discute as concepções de leitura e de leitores nesses dois romances. A análise das personagens-leitoras, em cada romance, permite perceber suas posturas individuais quanto aos textos que leem e às circunstâncias que vivem, e discutir quais concepções de leitura e de leitor são defendidas ou criticadas pela autora. Conclui-se que a questão de leitura e de leitores era tanto um assunto relevante para Jane Austen e para a sociedade inglesa da época como também um elemento internalizado e estruturante dos romances da autora. O processo de leitura e releitura, com o qual as personagens de Austen estão envolvidas, permite o aprofundamento psicológico das mesmas através da voz narrativa que ora penetra na consciência das personagens ora se afasta delas para comentar e avaliar sua postura como leitores. Nos dois romances, a autora discute o processo de internalização e subjetivação da leitura. Assim, por meio das diferentes concepções de leitura e de leitores presentes em Pride and Prejudice e Sense and Sensibility, Austen defende não só a importância da leitura e da releitura para o amadurecimento intelectual e emocional do leitor (tema ainda de interesse contemporâneo), como também abre novas perspectivas para o romance como gênero literário.
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Eneroth, Henrik. "Code & Conduct : A Study of Moral Values and Scoundrels in Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice and Sense & Sensibility." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-76296.
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Jane Austen provides moral guidance in her nocels, showing her readers what is wrong with her society. Novels such as Pride & Prejudice and Sense & Sensibility contain studies of human character and lack of morals. She guides her readers towards a clearer moral vision by including characters such as George Wickham and John Willoughby, and warns her readers about trusting first impressions. The essay focuses on the moral aspects of these scoundrels. It analyses and compares the characters based on the first impressions from others, the events in the novels where their true colors emerge and how they are judged by the characters and the author in the novel. The essay argues that Austen's way of developing the scoundrels enables her to prove a point of morality to her readers, showing us the danger of trusting first impressions and appearances, warning us against the deceptive evil which presents itself disguised in charm and respectability. Thus she guides her readers towards a clearer vision of true worth and good morals - such as honesty and consideration for others - in a way that may be discussed and appreciated by young people of today. In addition, a didactic approach is included, showing how the findings in the esay can be used and interpreted in an English class in Swedish upper-secondary school. It provides a lesson plan based on the findings, and are justified by answering the question "why should we study literature" and "why should we study Jane Austen?". The goal is to form activities that students find both entertaining and motivating. It will show that both scoundrels are well-behaved, handsome and are well-liked by the majority of the characters in the beginning. However, they are also dishonest, selfish and driven by economival and sexual motives. This shows the danger of trusting fist impressions and justifies the reason why they are scoundrels. However, there are differences that differentiate them: Wickham is not able to love or feel remorse, while Willoughby is.
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Lingo, Sarah Katherine. "They Blush Because They Understand: The Performative Power of Women's Humor and Embarrassment in Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/81276.
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In this project, I analyze women's humor in three of Jane Austen's novels: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma. Using speech-act theory, I specifically examine Elizabeth's, Emma's, and Mary's utterances to demonstrate that in order for humorous utterances to be subversive, they must challenge societal or patriarchal constructs (religion, misogynist men, marriage, the feminine ideal) and do so artfully. An indirect speech act--a play on words, an insult, even a laugh--is often far more effective than a more direct one, especially when wielded by characters for whom a direct antagonistic speech act would have severe social consequences. When those socially-sanctioned and highly-regulated speech acts--marriages, wills, introductions, invitations, letters, titles--are less accessible or less beneficial to women, only indirect speech acts remain a viable option.Master of Arts
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Abdulhaq, Hala M. "Representations of women's oppress ions in Jane Austen 's sense and sensibility pride and prejudice, and Emma." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2016. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/3328.
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This study examines Jane Austen's realistic interpretations of eighteenth-century English society with a particular focus on representing women's oppress ions in Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. Austen, in these three novels, criticizes several issues related to women's status in English society and focuses on how men and women should be treated equally. In the novels, she argues that English society creates social order, women's oppressiveness, and gender inequality through arbitrary social norms and traditions.
This paper mainly focuses on two areas that restrict women's roles in their society: the marriage plot and the educational system. Austen's purpose of presenting these issues is to voice women's rights and improve their conditions. She also offers her readers unusual descriptions of female characters in order to correct the stereotypical images of women during the period. Finally, this paper aims to show Austen's success in redefining women's status and change the misconceptions of women in British society.
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Abrahamsson, Joffrey Levi. "Elizabeth Bennet's Intelligence : A Reading of Class and Gender Conventions And Transgressions in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-35416.
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In Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, gender roles and gender expectations relate to class differences in a system of social convention which operates to delimit all of the characters - men and women, rich people and less privileged people - to a greater or lesser extent, in a way which reflects actual class and gender structures in England around 1800. The most important strain of social commentary on gender and class in the novel is constituted by the characterisation of Elizabeth Bennet. She is associated with intelligence in a way which is vital to her successful breach of gender and class conventions. This essay starts out from Susan Morgan’s ”Intelligence in Pride and Prejudice” and will extend her arguments in my reading of the novel to prove that Elizabeth’s intelligence allows her to transgress social conventions related to gender and class more successfully than other characters and arrive at a happy ending despite having defied social convention. A number of other characters also represent a breach of class and gender conventions. Lydia Bennet elopes with Mr. Wickham, which at the time was considered scandalous. Mr. Darcy tries to ignore his affection for Elizabeth but fails to do so. In comparison to the unconventionality of Elizabeth, who manages to overcome every obstacle by relying on her intelligence in a way which also benefits Darcy and secures a happy ending for him as well, their transgressions are not as successful.Sammanfattning I Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice så relaterar könsroller och könsförväntningar till klassskillnader i ett system av sociala konventioner som fokuserar på att begränsa alla karaktärer, t.ex. kvinnor, män, rika och fattiga , till en större eller mindre utsträckning samt på ett sätt som reflekterar faktiska köns och klasstrukturer i England runt 1800-talet. De viktigaste sociala kommentarerna som rör köns- och klassteman i novellen utgörs av Elizabeth Bennets karaktärisering. Hon associeras med intelligens på ett sätt som är betydande för hennes lyckade överträdande mot köns- och klasskonventioner. Denna uppsats utgår från Susan Morgans ”Intelligence in Pride and Prejudice” och kommer förlänga hennes argument inom min läsning av romanen för att bevisa att Elizabeths intelligens tillåter henne att överträda sociala konventioner relaterade till genus och status på ett framgångsrikare sätt än andra karaktärer samt åstadkomma ett lyckligt slut trots att hon utmanat sociala konventioner. Andra karaktärer i romanen representerar också ett överträdande mot köns- och klasskonventioner. Lydia Bennet rymmer med Mr Wickham, vilket under den tiden ansågs vara skandalöst. Mr Darcy försöker ignorera sina känslor för Elizabeth men lyckas inte. I jämförelse med Elizabeth, som genom att förlita sig på sin intelligens lyckas överkomma varje hinder på ett sätt som också gynnar Darcy och även säkrar ett lyckligt slut för honom, så är de andra karaktärernas överträdande inte lika framgångsrikt.
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Silva, Ricelly Jáder Bezerra da. "A tradução da personagem Elizabeth Bennet, de Pride & Prejudice, para o cinema." www.teses.ufc.br, 2014. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/8661.
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SILVA, Ricelly Jáder Bezerra da. A tradução da personagem Elizabeth Bennet, de Pride & Prejudice, para o cinema. 2014. 123f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras, Fortaleza (CE), 2014.Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-08-08T17:31:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_dis_rjbsilva.pdf: 1467738 bytes, checksum: 9759e052fab69a1d5a79e9bba2afcf35 (MD5)
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This dissertation aims at analyzing the process of translating the character of Elizabeth Bennet, protagonist of the novel Pride & Prejudice, first published in 1813 by the English author, Jane Austen, into the film version Pride & Prejudice (1940), by Robert Z. Leonard. In her novel, Austen criticizes sociocultural patters which relegate women to an inferior position in relation to the male sex. Such criticism is subtlety present in the narrative and, especially, in the character of Elizabeth Bennet, who is seen as an intelligent, ironic and decisive woman. These qualities differ from the moral idea of women in nineteenth-century England. The presentation of this type of female character assures her of a timeless quality which is transmitted to posterity by means of translations. Pride & Prejudice was first translated for the Hollywood film in 1940, in the above mentioned Leonard’s version. Since the cinema is a medium that reaches a large audience of both readers and non-readers of literary works, one may question the strategies that are implied in the translation process of such character to the silver screen. It may be correctly assumed that when thus translated, any social criticism presented by the principal literary character tends to give way to a narrative which proposes entertainment, focusing on the love and comical relationship between the protagonists of the novel. The theoretic basis for the present analysis is based on the following concepts of translation: Lefevere’s translation rewriting (2007) and Cattrysse’s postulate (1995) which conceives film adaptation as a type of translation. Concerning film adaptation, Martin (2005), Eisenstein (2002) and McFarlane’s (2010) studies, which regard cinema as a linguistic art in its own right, were incorporated into our analysis as were those of Candido (2011), Rosenfeld (2011), Bakhtin (2011), Gomes (2011) and Forster (2004), all of whom discuss the structure of the fictional character. Such studies have resulted in a new configuration of the cinematographic character. Based on the criteria on the target system, this configuration permits the deleting of the critical level found in the universe of the novel and introduces the original work to a wider audience, as can be proved by the republishing of the novel in various editions after the release of the film version in 1940.
O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar o processo de tradução da personagem Elizabeth Bennet, protagonista do romance Pride & Prejudice, publicado em 1813, de autoria da escritora inglesa Jane Austen, para o filme Pride and Prejudice (1940), de Robert Z. Leonard. Em sua obra, Austen constrói uma crítica a padrões socioculturais que relegam posição inferior à mulher do século XIX em relação ao sexo masculino. Tal crítica está presente de maneira sutil em sua narrativa, principalmente, centrada na personagem Elizabeth Bennet, pois Austen a apresenta como uma mulher inteligente, irônica, decidida e ousada; qualidades que não eram associadas ao comportamento feminino durante o século XIX. Por apresentar personagens femininas de caráter decidido, suas criações ganham qualidade atemporal, sendo projetadas à posteridade por meio de traduções. Pride & Prejudice foi adaptado pela primeira vez para o cinema hollywoodiano em 1940, na versão supracitada de Leonard. E, sendo o cinema um meio que atinge grande público formado por leitores e não leitores de obras literárias, indagamo-nos quais estratégias foram empregadas no processo tradutório da referida personagem para a narrativa fílmica. Portanto, partimos da hipótese de que, ao ser traduzida para as telas, a personagem é reestruturada e a crítica é apagada para ceder lugar a uma narrativa cômica e romântica. Como base teórica, utilizamos princípios de Estudos da Tradução: Lefevere (2007), com o conceito de tradução como Reescritura e Cattrysse (1995), que concebe a adaptação fílmica como tradução. Quanto aos estudos de cinema e literatura, utilizamos Martin (2005), Eisenstein (2002) e McFarlane (2010); e no que diz respeito a questões literárias, utilizamos Candido (2011), Rosenfeld (2011), Bakhtin (2011), Gomes (2011) e Forster (2004). Os resultados mostraram que ocorreram mudanças na configuração da personagem cinematográfica, obedecendo aos critérios do sistema receptor e apagando o teor crítico encontrado no romance de Austen. Mostraram ainda que a obra fílmica projetou o universo literário do romance para um público mais amplo, dada as reedições do romance durante aquela década, em decorrência da exibição do filme.
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Sundkvist, Magdalena. "Love' s function in marital decisions : Materialist feminism in Jane Austen's Emma, Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-121968.
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In Jane Austen’s Emma, Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey there is a central theme of finding a marriage partner from economic, social and love perspectives. The focus of this essay is to look from a materialist feminist perspective at how these factors influence the characters’ marital matches. I have also looked at how love as a sought after ideal in marriage conceals the social and economic factors’ influence. The novels all discuss how women’s marginalized economic position forces them to marry. Social factors such as women’s need to find a husband and their expected domestic role have also had an influence. Love works in the novels to support the oppression of women by justifying marriage and concealing women’s unequal role in society.
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Taujanskaitė, Aurelija. "Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding: The Situation of Writing a Novel." Bachelor's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2012. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2012~D_20120831_092258-48880.
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The object of the research is Austen’s and Fielding’s situation of writing a novel through their works Pride and Prejudice by Austen and Bridget Jones’s Diary by Fielding. Though, these women authors are representatives of the two different epochs of English literature their novels are frequently taken in parallel. In order to carry out the research, the comparative and feminist criticism methods were applied. The comparative methodology was useful in order to analyze the meanings of similarity or distinction in the novels Pride and Prejudice by Austen and Bridget Jones’s Diary by Fielding, also, to compare two different contexts for writing two novels.Tyrimo objektas – Džeinės Austen ir Helenos Fielding romano rašymo situacija remiantis jų kūriniais: Austen Puikybė ir prietarai bei Fielding Bridžitos Džouns dienoraštis. Nors autorės yra skirtingų laikotarpių anglų rašytojos, jų kūriniai yra dažnai lyginami.Bakalauro darbe buvo naudojami lyginamosios bei feministinės kritikos metodai. Lyginamasis metodas buvo taikomas ištirti romanų Puikybė ir prietarai ir Bridžitos Džouns dienoraštis panašumo ar savitumo reikšmes, palyginti kūrinių rašymo kontekstus. Kadangi Austen ir Fielding yra moterys rašytojos, feministinės kritikos metodas buvo naudojamas atskleisti moterų literatūros savitumą.
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Lindström, Kristin. "Women – The Lowest Class? : A Marxist Critical Analysis of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-7367.
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Rehm, Andrea de Cassia Jardim. "Jane Eyre de Charlotte Brontë e Pride and Prejudice de Jane Austen : como os filmes e as minisséries recriaram as heroínas na cultura ocidental." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/131710.
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O presente trabalho explora a interdisciplinaridade ao analisar as heroínas de Jane Eyre de Charlotte Brontë e Pride and Prejudice de Jane Austen, bem como suas respectivas recriações em adaptações para o cinema e para a televisão. Evidenciando as retomadas dos romances para as mídias cinematográfica e televisiva, a pesquisa perpassou o olhar por filmes e seriados de 1934 a 2011, porém o estudo faz um recorte e analisa dois filmes e duas minisséries, entre outras, que recriam as personagens principais, tendo em vista a proximidade temporal das produções e o gosto pessoal da investigadora desta pesquisa. As protagonistas Jane Eyre e Elizabeth Bennet constituem-se em figuras femininas e literárias marcantes que continuam a viver no imaginário tanto do público leitor quanto do espectador, bem como são fontes de estudos da academia e de fruição em geral, reunindo interessados e admiradores sem restrições. Desta forma, o foco repousa nos romances, na minissérie Jane Eyre, de 2006, da diretora Susanna White; no filme homônimo, de 2011, do diretor Cary Fukunaga; na minissérie Pride and Prejudice, de 1995, de Simon Lang; e no filme de 2005, sob a direção de Joe Wright. Esta investigação lança um olhar, em um primeiro momento, ao interesse dirigido à busca dos textos das autoras como material para adaptações, focando as protagonistas como o cerne de tais retomadas. Além disso, neste trabalho investigativo, se realiza uma leitura crítica particular dos romances, dos filmes e dos seriados. Não se buscam tanto os pontos de contato e de afastamento entre as heroínas e suas respectivas recriações ou entre as mídias envolvidas quanto se procuram os elementos denotadores dos efeitos na leitora e na espectadora personificadas na autora da pesquisa em relação às construções das personagens principais, bem como no que concerne às suas recriações em imagens na cultura ocidental do século XX e XXI. Na tentativa de iluminar com maior profundidade a permanência das heroínas por meio das narrativas tanto literárias quanto fílmicas e televisivas ao longo do tempo, o presente exame se debruça sobre a relação entre leitor e romance, bem como entre espectador, filme e seriado. A abordagem focaliza, desta forma, na esteira do pensamento de Iser, que se baseou nos postulados de Ingarden; a questão dos espaços vazios. A projeção do preenchimento dos vazios do texto dialoga, diretamente, com a mídia fílmica, visto que o espectador, entendido como ser ativo, necessita, também, contrabalançar possíveis lacunas. Num segundo momento, o estudo se dirige propriamente à caracterização e à apreensão do que compõe Jane Eyre e Elizabeth Bennet, tanto as personagens dos romances quanto as recriações nos filmes e nas minisséries componentes do corpus desta pesquisa. Ao almejar a compreensão das nuances que formam as personalidades das heroínas, o que é determinante em suas ações, a análise contempla elementos que representam papéis marcantes para se conhecer as particularidades componentes das protagonistas. Em terceiro lugar, o enfoque passa a ser o contexto, em suas variadas acepções, tais como social, comportamental e, mesmo, geográfico, a serviço do entendimento de quem são essas heroínas, tendo em vista que o espaço que as envolve é crucial na revelação do que as torna ímpares. Contando com excertos e fragmentos retirados das seis narrativas, examina-se as facetas de comportamento que as autoras imprimem em seus textos para se possam distinguir os recursos que os diretores utilizam, juntamente com suas equipes, nas recriações, na cultura ocidental, das protagonistas dentro de cenários que as marcam em cada uma das narrativas. Assim, busca-se a essência do que as tornam referenciais para leitores e espectadores.The present study explores interdisciplinarity by analyzing the heroines of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, as well as their respective recreations in cinema and television adaptations. Evincing the transit of novels to cinema and television media, the study looked at films and series from 1934 to 2011, focusing, however, on two films and two miniseries, among others, that recreate the main characters, in view of the temporal proximity of the productions and the personal taste of the researcher of this study. The protagonists Jane Eyre and Elizabeth Bennet are remarkable literary female figures who continue to live in the minds of both the reader and the spectator, and are sources for academic studies and general enjoyment. Thus, the focus lies on the novels; on the 2006 miniseries Jane Eyre, directed by Susanna White; on the 2011 film with the same title, directed by Cary Fukunaga; on the 1995 miniseries Pride and Prejudice, by Simon Lang; and on the 2005 film, directed by Joe Wright. Firstly, this study focuses on the interest for the works of the authors as materials for adaptations, focusing on the protagonists as the center of such adaptations. Furthermore, a particular critical reading of the novels, the films and the series is carried out, seeking not so much the contact and distance points between the heroines and their respective recreations, or between the media involved, but seeking the elements that show the effects on the reader and spectator, personified here in the author of this research, concerning the constructions of the main characters, as well as with regard to their recreations in images to the western culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In an attempt to shed light on the permanence of the heroines through both literary and filmic narratives over time, the research looks at the relationship between reader and novel, as well as between spectator and film and series. The approach focuses, therefore, in the light of Iser’s thought, which was based on the postulates of Ingarden, on the issue of blank spaces. The projection of filling in the empty spaces of the text are directly convergent to reading/interpreting filmic media, since the viewer, seen as an active being, also needs to counterbalance possible gaps. Secondly, the study addresses the characterization and the understanding of what comprises Jane Eyre and Elizabeth Bennet in the novels and in the films and miniseries adaptations which are part of the corpus of this research. By trying to understand the nuances that form and individualize the personalities of the heroines, which is decisive in their actions, the analysis includes elements that represent roles that are significant to know the particularities of the protagonists. Thirdly, the focus shifts to the context in its many traits, such as social, behavioral, and even geographical, in order to understand who these heroines are, considering that the space that surrounds them is crucial in the revelation of what makes them unique. Relying on excerpts and fragments taken from the six narratives, the facets of behavior that the authors impress in their texts are examined to distinguish the resources that the directors and their teams use in the recreations, for the contemporary western culture, of the protagonists in the scenarios that mark them in each of the narratives. Thus, the aim is the search for the essence of what makes them an updated reference for readers and spectators.
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Ivarsson, Emma. "Thorny reading : A didactic and literary approach to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-785.
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This essay has a gender perspective on didactics and literature with the aim to highlight the circumstances surrounding reading and understanding the novel Pride and Prejudice in a classroom context.
Since Pride and Prejudice is written with a somewhat complicated language the pupils are likely to encounter some difficulties when reading the novel. This is something that I have chosen to focus my essay on. What is more, they are likely to also have difficulties to understand different episodes in the novel since they have little knowledge about the society depicted in Pride and Prejudice. This is referred to as a cultural and historical hindrance and they are present due to the fact that the story is set at the end of the 18th and beginning of 19th century England. However, there are various approaches which might diminish obstacles like those I have mentioned, for instance, by offering background information about the novel and recurring issues, such as marriage and financial heritance.
The areas of importance in the novel that I have chosen to highlight, because of the limited background knowledge that the students have, are marriage and financial independence for women. Marriage is depicted to be very important for a woman, especially
if they do not have a large fortune of their own. Due to lack of financial resources they needed to marry, since if they did not they could end up as old maids or even worse; having to support themselves by working as prostitutes. The chance of inheriting a lot of money was small, since the money from their father or mother was generally entitled to their closest male heir.
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Gross, Ursula Marie. "What happens next Jane Austen's fans and their sequels to Pride and Prejudice /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2008. http://worldcat.org/oclc/441821270/viewonline.
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Barakat, Kareen. "Unsmiling Lips and Dull Eyes: A Study of Why We Continue to Read Jane Austen." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3559.
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The purpose of this thesis is to take a closer look at Jane Austen’s work and understand the importance of it in both the academic and cultural sphere. With a specific focus on Pride and Prejudice, this research starts with a focus on feminist readings of the novel. Primarily, this research looks at the novel with a feminist lens in order to better understand the female characters and their involvement in the marriage plot. Secondarily, the research goes on to look at the cultural impact of Pride and Prejudice and attempts to understand the ways in which this novel re-appears in different adaptations. Finally, the research suggests that there should be a new way of reading Austen that better fits contemporary society. Despite how far removed Jane Austen’s world may seem, her work remains important and worth studying. This thesis argues in favor of the appreciation of Jane Austen’s work both academically and culturally.
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Pahlau, Randi. "Hospitality and the Natural World within an Ecotheological Contextin William Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1448050811.
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LaRue, Michelle A. "Resurrecting Jane Austen: An Exploration in Writing as a Reader (and Vice Versa)." Marietta College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marhonors1398432278.
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Kan, Ka Ian. "Translation networks in Republican China : four novels by British women, 'Cranford', 'Jane Eyre', 'Silas Marner' and 'Pride and Prejudice'." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/23487.
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This thesis examines four translations and retranslations of novels by British female writers. They are Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, George Eliot’s Silas Marner, and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. The translations and retranslations, eight target texts in total, are mapped onto the sociopolitical and sociocultural milieu of China from the late 1920s to 1930s. During the span of time when the eight translations were published, China was undergoing a special period of political turbulence intertwined with literary vibrancy. With the literary field of China segmented into various literary societies or political organizations subscribing to their respective doctrines and principles, Chinese intellectuals including translators from various backgrounds produced literature and translation within the agenda of their respective literary or political societies. The heart of this thesis’s theoretical framework is the role of agents of translation involved the practice of translation production. The interaction amongst the human and nonhuman agents: translators, patrons, intellectuals, literary institutions, publishers and more, are examined in order to identify the translation motivations of the translators. The seven translators covered in the present study are categorized into three distinctive groups: the leftists, the humanists and the commercial translators. A collective analysis of the translators’ behaviour should shed light on the general understanding of the intended social functions of these translated novels written by British female writers published during Republican China.
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Schaefer, Sarah Elizabeth. "Austen and Woolf Revisited: Muddy Petticoats, Sally's Kiss, and the Neoliberal Now." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73770.
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This project examines the implications of mythologizing women writers, specifically Woolf and Austen, and transforming them into their own famous characters. Using various writings that theorize women's voices, sense of agency, and political autonomy in relationship with the public/private dichotomy, this project argues that women writers are often appropriated and fictionalized in this way because of a patriarchal cultural understanding that women are associated with the private, personal, and domestic spheres. More importantly, it argues that this increasingly frequent treatment aligns with and forwards a neoliberal political and cultural agenda. The politics of the last twenty or thirty years, in short, are shaping interpretations and adaptations of major works of the English canon, specifically Mrs. Dalloway and Pride and Prejudice. Particular examples of such adaptations include The Hours, Vanessa and Her Sister, Becoming Jane, and Longbourn. This project ultimately analyzes these and a select number of other texts in order to show that these contemporary treatments of two of the most famous female writers from the English canon reveal quite a bit about current attitudes within the United States about gender (in)equality, care work/dependency, and sexuality.Master of Arts
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Muji, Arbnore. "Gender issues reflected within nature in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-8388.
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This essay will analyse Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice from a feminist point of view, the emphasis being on how the environment and nature can reflect femininity and the relationships between men and women. The nature portrayed within Pride and Prejudice can also be looked at from a gender perspective in order to help understand how Jane Austen used nature to reflect the realities of gender differences in her society.
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Oliveira, Dudlei Floriano de. "Cinema, religion and literature : revisiting, recreating and reshaping Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice as a 21st century comedy." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/61715.
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As obras de Jane Austen são extremamente populares tanto entre leitores comuns e estudiosos de literatura desde a época em que foram publicados, no início do século XIX até os dias de hoje. Tamanha popularidade foi responsável por inúmeras obras de arte, especialmente na literatura e no cinema, que foram ou implicitamente ou explicitamente influenciados pela obra de Austen. Um de seus romances mais adaptados é Orgulho e Preconceito, talvez seu romance mais lido, estudado e adaptado. Um dos motivos para tal apreciação é provavelmente resultado dos valores morais que Jane Austen expõe em seus romances. Estes valores, mesmo duzentos anos mais tarde, permanecem importantes e de grande valor, especialmente na era pós-moderna, quando o excesso de liberdade e alternativas parecem deixar a humanidade mais desprovida de um suporte seguro na vida. Esta é a razão que permite um fã de Austen encontrar na religião um possível diálogo, onde, em um mundo cheio de incertezas, certos códigos morais são as certezas a que alguém pode se segurar. Em 2003, Andrew Black dirigiu o filme Pride and Prejudice: a latter-day comedy1, uma transposição moderna do romance de Austen, no qual os personagens vão à igreja e estudam em uma universidade religiosa. Meu trabalho busca estabelecer uma relação entre o livro de Jane Austen, o filme de Andrew Black e as questões sobre moralidade e religião, e como o romance e o filme estabelecem uma conexão não apenas em seus elementos de ficção como personagens e enredo, mas principalmente no que diz respeito a uma das possíveis mensagens finais em ambas obras.The works of Jane Austen are extremely popular both among average readers and literature scholars from the time they were published, in the early 19th century until today. Such popularity has been responsible for innumerous works of art, especially in literature and cinema, that were either implicitly or explicitly influenced by Austen’s work. One of her most adapted novels is the 1812 novel Pride and Prejudice, which is perhaps her most read, studied and adapted novel. One of the reasons for such appraisal has probably to do with the moral values Jane Austen exposes in her novels. Those values, even two hundred years later, remain important and of great worth, especially in the postmodern era, when the excess of freedom and alternatives seems to make humanity more deprived of a secure ground in life. This is the reason that allows an Austen fan to find in religion a possible dialogue, where, in a world full of uncertainties, some moral codes are the certainties one can hold onto. In 2003, Andrew Black directed a movie entitled Pride and Prejudice: a latter-day comedy, a transposition of Austen’s novel to a modern setting, where the characters are themselves churchgoers and students at a religious university. My work is aimed at establishing a connection between Jane Austen’s novel, Andrew Black’s movie and the issue of morality and religion, and how the novel and movie establish a connection not only in terms of fictional elements such as characters and plot, but mainly in regards to one of the possible final messages in both works.
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Ribeiro, Domício Moreira. "TRADUÇÃO, LINGUAGEM LITERÁRIA E LINGUAGEM CINEMATOGRÁFICA EM ORGULHO E PRECONCEITO, DE JANE AUSTEN." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2012. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/3167.
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Previous issue date: 2012-03-23This dissertation is a bibliographical research on translation, novel language and film language. Its aim is to compare, first, among themselves, three Portuguese language translations of the novel Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. Then do the comparison of them with the source text in English. After that, make the confrontation of the namesake film language, adapted in 2005 and directed by Joe Wright, with the source language of the literary work. Translations were made by Lúcio Cardoso, Enrico Corvisieri e Roberto Leal Ferreira. In this research, we presented, first, a comprehensive theoretical framework of multiple methods and technical procedures of translation through a timeline that begins in the fourth century AD, with Jerome, and ends in 1990 with Jacques Derrida. Then we did a collation of the translations with the original work and a comparison of the film language with the source language of the novel. With respect to the above-mentioned translators, Roberto Leal Ferreira made the more literal and semantic translation, because it preserves the content and form of the source text. Regarding the film language, it is equivalent to the language of the novel in terms of language levels, though it is more concise because of the length of the movie, sticking to the crucial aspects of the fictional story. Conclusion shows that there is no mutual understanding regarding the definition of translation, nor exist procedures that address and solve all possible problems that may arise from various situations of translation. The methods and procedures address the same dichotomies: content and form, word translation and translation of meaning, fidelity to the author or to the reader, and nationalization or foreignization. We found that the novel Pride and Prejudice is a valuable laboratory to practice the technical procedures of translation, considering that various procedures, such as additions, deletions, omissions, clarifications, borrowings, literal translations, transpositions, modulations, equivalences and adaptations have been found in the evaluated translations. The relationship between translation, language of the novel and film language, often conflicting, is pacific in the collation between Pride and Prejudice, the movie and Orgulho e Preconceito, considering that the abovementioned translators and the film scriptwriter were able to bring into the target language and into the movie language the meanings of the source text without apparent losses.
Este trabalho consiste, fundamentalmente, numa pesquisa bibliográfica que discorre sobre tradução, linguagem romanesca e linguagem cinematográfica. Seu objetivo é, primeiramente, comparar entre si três traduções em Língua Portuguesa do romance Orgulho e Preconceito, de Jane Austen, e posteriormente cotejá-las com o textofonte em Língua Inglesa. Em seguida, pretende-se contrastar a linguagem do filme homônimo, adaptado em 2005 e dirigido por Joe Wright, com a linguagem original da obra literária. Para tanto, será apresentada, inicialmente, uma fundamentação teórica que trata dos vários métodos, bem como dos procedimentos técnicos da tradução, numa linha do tempo que começa no século IV d.C., com São Jerônimo, e se estende até os anos 1990, com Jacques Derrida. Logo após, realizar-se-á a comparação das traduções com a obra original e o confronto da linguagem fílmica com a linguagem-fonte do romance. Com relação às três traduções avaliadas, pretende-se verificar como os significados da obra original são transportados para a língua da tradução, sempre cuidando, cada uma a seu modo, para evitar as perdas. Nesse sentido, com relação aos trabalhos tradutórios de Lúcio Cardoso, Enrico Corvisieri e Roberto Leal Ferreira, urge atentar para este último, que realiza uma tradução mais literal e semântica, concernente ao conteúdo e à forma do texto-fonte. Acerca da linguagem fílmica, é preciso buscar a sua equivalência com a linguagem do romance em termos de registro, apesar de sua forma concisa, em função da duração do filme, atendo-se aos aspectos cruciais da obra. Observados tais aspectos, adianta-se que não haverá uma conclusão definitiva sobre o tema em debate, considerando não haver qualquer consenso a respeito das várias nuances que cercam o termo tradução, tampouco existem procedimentos que contemplem, elucidem e sanem os complexos problemas do ato tradutório. Desse modo, este trabalho corrobora a assertiva de que os métodos e procedimentos tradutórios, por mais ousados que sejam, não se afastam das dicotomias: conteúdo e forma, tradução da palavra e tradução do sentido, fidelidade ao autor ou ao leitor e nacionalização ou estrangeirização. Ele também se solidariza com a premissa de que a obra Pride and Prejudice é um valioso laboratório para a prática da tradução, tendo em vista que vários procedimentos técnicos, como acréscimos, apagamentos, omissões, explicitações, empréstimos, transposições, modulações, equivalências e adaptações podem ser encontrados nas traduções avaliadas. E, finalmente, que a relação entre tradução, linguagem romanesca e linguagem cinematográfica, geralmente conflituosa, se mostra harmônica no paralelo entre Pride and Prejudice, o filme e Orgulho e Preconceito, pois os tradutores mencionados e a roteirista conseguiram trasladar para a língua-meta e para a linguagem do filme, sem perdas aparentes, os sentidos da obra original.
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Moring, Meg Montgomery 1961. "Death and the Concept of Woman's Value in the Novels of Jane Austen." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278475/.
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Jane Austen sprinkles deaths throughout her novels as plot devices and character indicators, but she does not tackle death directly. Yet death pervades her novels, in a subtle yet brutal way, in the lives of her female characters. Austen reveals that death was the definition and the destiny of women; it was the driving force behind the social and economic constructs that ruled the eighteenth-century woman's life, manifested in language, literature, religion, art, and even in a woman's doubts about herself.
In Northanger Abbey Catherine Morland discovers that women, like female characters in gothic texts, are written and rewritten by the men whose language dominates them. Catherine herself becomes an example of real gothic when she is silenced and her spirit murdered by Henry Tilney. Marianne Dashwood barely escapes the powerful male constructs of language and literature in Sense and Sensibility. Marianne finds that the literal, maternal, wordless language of women counts for nothing in the social world, where patriarchal,figurative language rules, and in her attempt to channel her literal language into the social language of sensibility, she is placed in a position of more deadly nothingness, cast by society as a scorned woman and expected to die. Fanny Price in Mansfield Park is sacrificed as Eve, but in her death-like existence and in her rise to success she echoes Christ, who is ultimately a maternal figure that encapsulates the knowledge of the goddess, the knowledge that from death will come life. Emma Woodhouse in Emma discovers that her perfection, sanctioned by artistic standards, is really a means by which society eases its fears about death by projecting death onto women as a beautiful ideal. In Persuasion, Anne Elliotfindsthat women endure death while men struggle against it, and this endurance requires more courage than most men possess or understand. Austen's novels expose the undercurrent of death in women's lives, yet hidden in her heroines is the maternal power of women—the power to bear children, to bear language and culture, to bear both life and death.
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Henge, Gláucia da Silva. "Feitos e efeitos discursivos no processo tradutório do literário : uma discussão sobre o fazer tradutório da obra Pride and Prejudice de Jane Austen." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/132841.
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À partir de la perspective de l’Analyse du Discours pecheutienne, qui se propose d'examiner les processus discursifs dans des différentes matérialités en prenant le rapport entre langue et histoire à la production des sens, cette thèse présente une étude sur le processus traductoire du littéraire. En envisageant la traduction comme un processus discursif, nous analysons les gestes d’interprétation matérialisés dans des extraits du livre Pride and Prejudice (1813) de Jane Austen et leurs traductions imprimées et cinématographiques. Les faits et les effets discursifs qui émergent du processus traductoire nous permettent d’observer le jeu de forces existant au faire traductoire et nous mènent à considérer le processus traductoire comme un processus discursif spécifique. Méthodologiquement, en prenant le processus traductoire comme objet, nous avons comme geste d’analyse le délinéament d’une formation discursive traductoire qui, en tant que domaine de savoir, règle le faire traductoire, et qui permet en même temps d’aborder discursivement le rapport entre les langues. Nous situons donc le processus traductoire dans son rapport constitutif avec la formation discursive littéraire, en le prenant comme effet-art. Nous parcourrons ainsi les surfaces linguistique et filmique qui signifient, au cours de deux cent ans, le discours littéraire qui soutient le roman et nous proposons la notion de moment discursif comme spécifité des conditions de production d’un effet de traduction. Le proccesus traductoire peut être décrit comme une actualisation dans des (ré)formulations d’une formulation précédente, en considérant dans ce mouvement l’énoncé comme un élément de savoir qui établit rapports de rapprochement ou d’éloignement entre les sens inscrits dans les formations discursives engagées. Ainsi le texte premier, en partant de son appropriation et interprétation à travers la formation discursive traductoire, est actualisé dans le discours du texte de traduction au moyen du travail de la mémoire discursive, qui se troue, se casse, ce qui permet au sens de glisser, en se répétant et se transformant dans la même langue ou dans une autre. Et par le fonctionnement discursif de la création, le texte émerge et est historicisé comme effet d’origine, d’antériorité et de récursivité pour chaque nouveau texte de traduction. Pour son analyse, nous mobilisons la notion de fonction-traducteur comme déploiement de la fonction-auteur dans un processus de traducréation.A partir da perspectiva da Análise do Discurso pecheuxtiana, que se propõe a investigar os processos discursivos em diferentes materialidades ao tomar a relação entre língua e história na produção dos sentidos, esta tese apresenta um estudo sobre o processo tradutório do literário. Ao encarar a tradução como um processo discursivo, analisamos os gestos de interpretação materializados em recortes da obra Pride and Prejudice (1813) de Jane Austen e suas traduções impressas e cinematográficas. Os feitos e os efeitos discursivos que emergem do processo tradutório nos permitem observar o jogo de forças existente no fazer tradutório e leva-nos a considerar o processo tradutório como um processo discursivo específico. Metodologicamente, ao tomar o processo tradutório como objeto, temos como gesto de análise o delineamento de uma formação discursiva tradutória que, como domínio de saber, regula o fazer tradutório, bem como permite abordar discursivamente a relação entre línguas. Então, situamos o processo tradutório em sua relação constitutiva com a formação discursiva literária, tomando-o como efeito-arte. Percorremos, deste modo, as superfícies linguística e fílmica que significam, ao longo de duzentos anos, o discurso literário que sustenta o romance e propomos a noção de momento discursivo como especificidade das condições de produção de um efeito de tradução. O processo tradutório pode ser descrito como atualização em (re)formulações de uma formulação anterior, considerando neste movimento o enunciado como elemento de saber que estabelece relações de aproximação ou distanciamento entre os sentidos inscritos nas formações discursivas envolvidas. Assim, o texto primeiro, a partir de sua apropriação e interpretação pelo viés da formação discursiva tradutória, é atualizado no discurso do texto de tradução através do trabalho da memória discursiva, que se esburaca, parte-se, permitindo que o sentido deslize, repetindo-se, transformando-se, na mesma ou em outra língua. E pelo funcionamento discursivo da autoria, o texto emerge e é historicizado como efeito de origem, de anterioridade e recursividade para cada novo texto de tradução. Para sua análise, mobilizamos a noção de função-tradutor como desdobramento da função-autor em um processo de tradautoria.
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Berggren, Elin. "Characterization in Social Satire : A comparative analysis of the heroines Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austenʼs Pride and Prejudice, and Becky Sharp in William Makepeace Thackerayʼs Vanity Fair." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-40753.
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This essay presents a comparative analysis of the characterizations of the female protagonists Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen̕ s Pride and Prejudice (1813), and Becky Sharp in William Makepeace Thackeray̕ s Vanity Fair (1847-1848). The analysis is conducted from a gender perspective, and with the use of feminist criticism. The two novels complement each other since they are both satirical images of society, concerning aspects such as class and gender. Also, both novels portray women climbing the class ladder, during the period of the Napoleonic wars. In the comparison, the main focus lies on the social satire constructed around the heroines of these novels. I come to the conclusion that Austen̕ s and Thackeray̕ s characterizations are very different from each other, mainly due to their different satirical approaches. This conclusion is put in relation to a patriarchal context and to feminist values.I denna uppsats presenteras en komparativ analys av karaktäriseringarna av de kvinnliga huvudkaraktärerna Elizabeth Bennet i Jane Austens Stolthet och Fördom (1813), och Becky Sharp i William Makepeace Thackerays Vanity Fair (1847-1848). Analysen är utförd från ett genusperspektiv, och med användning av feministisk samhällskritik. De två romanerna kompletterar varandra då de båda är satiriska illustreringar av samhället, och både rör aspekter såsom klass och genus. Dessutom porträtterar båda novellerna klassklättrande kvinnor under tiden för Napoleonkrigen. I jämförelsen ligger största fokuset på samhällssatiren konstruerad kring hjältinnorna i de båda romanerna. Jag når slutsatsen att Austens och Thackerays karaktäriseringar skiljer sig mycket från varandra, främst på grund av författarnas skilda förhållningssätt till sin satir. Denna slutsats relateras till en patriarkal kontext, samt till feministiska värderingar.
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Silva, Márcio Azevedo da. "Mobilidade social em Orgulho e preconceito, de Jane Austen, e Senhora, de José de Alencar." Universidade Federal do Amazonas, 2015. http://tede.ufam.edu.br/handle/tede/4709.
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The purpose of this dissertation is to promote a dialogue between the novels Pride and Prejudice by the English writer, Jane Austen, and “Senhora”, written by the Brazilian writer José de Alencar from the Comparative Literature point of view of social mobility. Each novel is extremely relevant to the comprehension of the English and Brazilian societies the period in which the books were written. In the first chapter, we present the historical context that influenced the authors, considering the influence of the Georgian era in the work of Jane Austen, besides her strange choice not to join the Romanticism in vogue at the time. We highlight the Bourgeois Romance and its influences in the work of José de Alencar. In the second chapter, we present a comparison between both novels and their main characters based on the book Comparative Literature, by Sandra Nitrini. The third chapter presents an inter-semiotic dialogue between the 2005 movie Pride and Prejudice, directed by Joe Wright and the novel written by Jane Austen. It also brings an inter-semiotic dialogue between the 1976 movie ”Senhora”, directed by Geraldo Vietri, and the novel written by José de Alencar. Both dialogues aim to elucidate the specifications of literary narrative and filmic narrative.
A proposta desta dissertação é promover um diálogo, a partir da Literatura Comparada, sobre mobilidade social nos romances Orgulho e Preconceito, da escritora inglesa, Jane Austen, e Senhora, do escritor brasileiro José de Alencar. Cada romance é de extrema relevância para a compreensão das sociedades inglesa e brasileira do período em que os livros foram escritos. No primeiro capítulo, apresentamos o contexto histórico em que os autores estão inseridos, considerando a influência da era Georgiana na obra de Jane Austen, além de sua curiosa escolha por não aderir ao Romantismo em voga. Ressaltamos a respeito do Romance Burguês e suas influências na obra de José de Alencar. No segundo capítulo, apresentamos a comparação entre os dois romances e suas principais personagens, tendo como base teórica o livro Literatura Comparada, de Sandra Nitrini. O terceiro capítulo apresenta um diálogo intersemiótico entre o filme Orgulho e Preconceito, de 2005, dirigido por Joe Wright e o romance de Jane Austen, o mesmo acontecendo com o filme Senhora, de 1976, dirigido por Geraldo Vietri e o romance de Alencar, com o objetivo de elucidar as especificidades da narrativa literária e da narrativa fílmica.
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Darberg, Sandra. "Exploring values of Money, Reputation, and Appearance : Discussing the impact of class divisions through Jane Austen´s Pride and Prejudice in the EFL classroom." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-88762.
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This essay is a discussion about how English teachers in the Swedish school system can use Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to encourage awareness and reflection in students regarding issues of class division and its impact on society. The essay provides examples of how the contemporary Swedish society and the society depicted in Pride and Prejudice share both similarities and differences in issues regarding class division. The reader response perspective has been applied to show how teachers may use the novel to emphasize students’ reflections and responses. This, in the hope of creating rewarding discussions in the classroom that are based on the curriculum for the Swedish upper secondary school’s content of democratic values and human rights. This essay will show that Pride and Prejudice is a suitable choice of literature to use as basis for generating awareness and reflection regarding the issues of the impact of class divisions on society in the EFL classroom.
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Widlund, Lina. "In Search of a Man : A Comparative Analysis of the Marriage Plot in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Language and Culture, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-423.
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Cardoso, Anna Carolyna Ribeiro. "A iniciação feminina em orgulho e preconceito." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2017. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/7120.
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Jane Austen’s most famous novel, Pride and Prejudice, was published in 1813. It portraits the lives of the daughters from the Bennet family, who need to get married in order to maintain themselves. It is a novel about women: it was written by a woman, its narrator has a feminine perspective and focuses on another woman, Elizabeth Bennet. The book also discusses typical female problems in the XIX century England. The persistent retelling of Pride and Prejudice in movies, series, novels indicates how the Austenian work keeps enchanting the public because it discusses topics such as love and people’s ability to judge a character. These are humaninity’s most relevant archetypical preoccupations and, before Austen, they appeared in myths and fairytales such as Cupid and Psyche and Beauty and the Beast. This dissertation aims to analyze Pride and Prejudice comparing it to the Greek myth and French fairytale, focusing on the female initiation processes experienced by Elizabeth, Psyche and Beauty. This dissertation has a qualitative, bibliographical and comparative approach. The most important theoretical texts used to discuss it were Rites and Symbols of Initiation: the mysteries of birth and rebirth (1975) by Mircea Eliade, Jane Eyre’s sisters: how women live and write the heroine’s story (2015) by Jody Bower, The annotated Pride and Prejudice (2012) by Jane Austen with notes by David Shapard, Caminho para a iniciação feminina (1985) by Sylvia Perera and O poder do mito (1990) de Joseph Campbell. As a result, it is possible to conclude that the female initiation has a prominent role in this Austenian novel and makes it possible to be constantly reread.
A obra mais famosa de Jane Austen, Orgulho e Preconceito, foi publicada em 1813. Seu enredo retrata o cotidiano da família Bennet, especialmente a situação das filhas da família, as quais precisam se casar para poder se manter. É um romance sobre mulheres, escrito por uma mulher. Sob a perspectiva de uma narradora, conta a história de Elizabeth Bennet, além de discutir problemas tipicamente femininos do século XIX inglês. A recorrência da atualização ou da releitura de Orgulho e Preconceito em livros, filmes e outras mídias demostra que a obra mantém o encantamento do público leitor por tratar de temas essencialmente humanos, como o amor ou o pré-julgamento, reacendendo preocupações arquetípicas do ser humano, em seu ser e estar no mundo. Esses mesmos temas foram representados, muito antes de Austen, em mitos e contos de fadas, como Cupido e Psiquê ou a Bela e a Fera. O objetivo desta dissertação é a análise de Orgulho e Preconceito de Jane Austen como releitura do mito e do conto de fadas. O trabalho desenvolvido tem caráter bibliográfico, qualitativo e comparativo. No decorrer da análise, foram levantados os mitemas recorrentes que se apresentam nas três narrativas, e enfocado o percurso iniciático feminino vivenciado tanto por Elizabeth Bennet quanto por Psiquê e Bela. Os referenciais teóricos mais relevantes para a pesquisa foram Rites and Symbols of Initiation: the mysteries of birth and rebirth (1975) de Mircea Eliade, Jane Eyre’s sisters: how women live and write the heroine’s story (2015) de Jody Bower, The annotated Pride and Prejudice (2012) de Jane Austen com anotações de David Shapard, Caminho para a iniciação feminina (1985) de Sylvia Perera e O poder do mito (1990) de Joseph Campbell, entre outros. Concluiu-se que o desenvolvimento feminino no romance austeniano tem aspecto fundamental para a construção da obra e sua consequente atualização.
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Van, Valkenburg Ingrid C. "The Factors for Choosing a Partner: Using Economic Theory to Enhance Readings of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/460.
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Money factors into the lives of all of Jane Austen’s heroines and, in many of her novels, the heroines struggle on the marriage market. Austen concludes every one of her novels with the marriage of the heroine and, while Austen made the choice to become a writer instead of marrying, she is consequently very mindful of what marriage means for each of her heroines and who they ultimately choose for a husband. Given that economics is the social science concerned with how individuals and institutions make optimal choices under conditions of scarcity, knowledge of some of the basic concepts in economics and an understanding of the economic theory behind how people make choices can enhance readings of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. Through a survey of some of the existing economic literature on marriage, I demonstrate how one might apply economic theory to these two novels. Subsequently, I explore how there are limits on how far the economics of marriage can be extended to analyze Austen’s novels, but ultimately conclude that the theory presented nevertheless helps explain how many of the characters choose their future partner.
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Pedersen, Jessica. "Gender in Pride and Prejudice : A look at gender roles relating to the characters Elizabeth and Lydia Bennet." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-101421.
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This essay will discuss gender in Pride and Prejudice, the timeless work by Jane Austen. It also discusses how a teacher might approach the subject of gender roles in a classroom environment based on a reading project featuring Pride and Prejudice. The different theories will include theories regarding gender as a social concept, gender roles and pedagogical implications. This essay argues that the gender roles in Pride and Prejudice can be used in an EFL classroom to increase students' awareness of gender and gender roles.
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Rossato, Bianca Deon. "The portrayal of women in Pride and prejudice (1813) and the Lizzie Bennet diaries (2012/2013)." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/186009.
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Duzentos anos após seu falecimento, as obras de Jane Austen ainda ecoam nas pessoas. Elas têm sido adaptadas das formas mais variadas, nas mais diferente mídias. Os Diários de Lizzie Bennet é um projeto transmidiático que transpõe o romance Orgulho e Preconceito (1813) para uma vídeo-série veiculada no YouTube de 2012 a 2013 de forma serializada. Esta pesquisa analisa de que forma temas que influenciam a vida das mulheres, como casamento, classe social e dinheiro, foram transpostos do período regencial inglês para a Califórnia-EUA do século vinte-um. Esta análise considera que ambas as obras são compostas por duas camadas de significado: a primeira é constituída pela comédia romântica que dialoga com a cultura popular; a segunda é mais profunda, através da qual a crítica social é revelada. No que tange ao referencial teórico, a relação entre a noção de subjetividade na virada do século dezenove e a expansão da vida privada na esfera pública no século vinte-um, conforme Jon Dovey (2000), é base para compreender como a estrutura de ambas as narrativas contribui na produção de significado. As discussões sobre feminismo e pós-feminismo na cultura popular de Angela McRobbie (2009) e Imelda Whelean (2010) tornam possível a observação da construção dos temas. Em Orgulho e Preconceito, as instituições sociais estabelecidas não são amplamente questionadas. Em vez disso, a composição da subjetividade dos personagens, especialmente das mulheres, revela a crítica a elementos sociais da época. Os Diários de Lizzie Bennet, a seu turno, desafiam as representações da mulher provenientes da cultura popular pós-feminista. A análise da adaptação revela que as mulheres ainda estão restritas a determinados papéis sociais assim como aquelas situadas no romance. Ainda há a necessidade de se encontrar equilíbrio.Two hundred years after her demise, Jane Austen’s works still resonate with people. They have been adapted in numerous ways through different media. The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is a transmedia project, which transposes the novel Pride and Prejudice (1813) to a videoblog series aired on YouTube from 2012 to 2013 in a serialised mode. This investigation analyses the ways issues concerning the lives of women, such as marriage, money and social class, were adapted from Regency England to twenty-first century California-USA. The analysis understands both works as consisting of two layers of meaning: a romantic comedy layer which converses with popular culture, and a deeper one through which social criticism is revealed. In theoretical terms, the relationship between the notion of subjectivity in the turn of nineteenth century and the spread of private life into the public sphere in the twenty-first century, as proposed by Jon Dovey (2000), informs the analysis of the structural elements of both narratives which contribute to the production of meaning. The discussions on feminism and post-feminism in popular culture by Angela McRobbie (2009) and Imelda Whelehan (2010) make it possible to observe the construction of the themes. In Pride and Prejudice, the established social institutions are not overtly questioned. Instead, it is the composition of the characters’ subjectivities, especially those of women, which reveals criticism on the social context of the time. The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, for its part, challenges the established representations of women as informed by postfeminist popular culture. In the end, it seems to propose that women are, in fact, still restrained by social roles, just as the ones in the novel are. There is yet a need to find balance.
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Nilsson, Kristina. "The Accomplished Woman – No Changes Accomplished? : A Comparison of the Portrayal of Women in Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice and Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-2567.
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In this essay I compare the notion of the accomplished woman in Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice and Helen Fielding’s novels about Bridget Jones. My claim is that the notion of the accomplished woman that Austen described 200 years ago is still very relevant and not much different today as reflected in Helen Fielding’s narrative in Bridget Jones, but also that both authors satirically describe the pressure that is put on women to reach the ideal of the accomplished woman. I initially discuss feminist literary theory, and then I analyze the following characteristics and ideas which make up the accomplished woman: Physical appearance, Education & Knowledge, Marriage & Having Children, Career and Skills, Status & Class and Manners & Behaviour. This essay shows that the notion of the accomplished woman is still very much present and in some cases, like physical appearance, the pressure on women to reach this ideal has actually gotten worse. Both Jane Austen and Helen Fielding use irony and satirically describe the pressure on young women as a way of actually criticizing their contemporary societies.
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Edin, Anna. "När en roman blir teveserie : Om Jane Austens aktualisering i och med 1995 års teveinspelning av Pride and Prejudice." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-16288.
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The aim of this Masters thesis is to examine how Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice, first published in 1813, was established in different literary orbits after the transformation to the television medium in 1995. I also want to find out what this adaptation meant for the popularity of Jane Austen, the circulation of her works and the rebirth of her authorship. It has furthermore been of interest to discuss the reasons why Jane Austen and her works became so popular. Questions posed in the study are: What has the 1995 production of Pride and Prejudice meant for the spreading of Jane Austens literary work and for the rebirth of her authorship? How has Pride and Prejudice moved between the literary orbits after it became a television-serial in 1995? Why did the circulation get the character it got in the 1990s? In order to find feasible answers to these questions I have used Hans Hertels model of the five literary orbits as theoretical starting point. This model has made it possible to show how Pride and Prejudice moved from the popular literary orbit, through the intermedial to the mass literary and further to the oral one after the 1995 production and how this made Austen available to a larger audience. The method used is a qualitative one, mostly based on literature studies. Earlier studies, articles and web sites have made it possible to describe the popularity of Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice and to follow the work through Hertels model. I have sought the reasons for the popularity both in the content of the novel and the BBC production and in conditions of the book- and mediamarket. The purpose has been to produce a comprehensive view of how the different angles cooperate to create a contextual whole.Uppsatsnivå: D
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Caporale, Camila Cano. "Um olhar político para as personagens leitoras de Razão e Sensibilidade (1811) e Orgulho e Preconceito (1813) de Jane Austen." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2016. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/8066.
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Jane Austen is one of the authors who owns a great prestige in the literary scenario, most notably for putting into the light aspects of the English society in which she was linked. Among many subjects described by the scholars, there is one that will be in this dissertation called into question, namely, the representative role of reading for fictional readers in two works written by her, Firstly the novel Sense and Sensibility (1811) whose selected aspect, is triggered by the disastrous reading that the heroin, Marianne Dashwood does; and, on the other hand we will point out a differentiated reading posture, in this case, in Pride and Prejudice (1813), whose tracking seems to indicate an ideal model of character as a reader, with the figure of the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet. In both texts, we will intend to develop a literary analysis, which considers the political and social aspects, subordinating our work, to Jameson’s levels of interpretation.
Jane Austen é uma das autoras possuidoras de grande prestígio no cenário literário, principalmente por colocar em evidência aspectos da sociedade inglesa à qual estava ligada. Entre muitas questões descritas pelos acadêmicos, existe uma que estará nesta dissertação de mestrado sendo posta em discussão, a saber, o papel representativo da leitura para os leitores ficcionais de duas das obras por ela escrita. Primeiramente, o romance Razão e Sensibilidade (1811), cujo aspecto selecionado é deflagrado por meio da leitura nefasta da heroína, Marianne Dashwood; e, por outro lado, apontaremos uma postura de leitura diferenciada, nesse caso, em Orgulho e Preconceito (1813), cujo caminhar parece indicar um modelo ideal de personagem leitora, com a figura da protagonista, Elizabeth Bennet. Em ambos os textos, buscaremos desenvolver uma análise literária na qual se considera os aspectos políticos e sociais, subordinando nosso trabalho aos níveis jamesonianos de interpretação.