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Hook, Sue. "Pride and prejudice in the twenty-first century." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14601.
Full textIn this thesis, I have examined the novel, Pride and Prejudice in the twenty-first century. As a lecturer of English literature I have found that many students are reluctant to engage with this novel because of their pre-conceived idea s of the novel' s trivial storyline and their assumptions about the writer. In light of this reluctance this thesis explores many of the issues related to Pride and Prejudice which both correspond to and reject student's conceptions of the novel. My methodology was to use various sources in order to find perceptions of it throughout its nearly two hundred years of existence. For this I used sources such as Todd's, Jane Austen in Context, Copeland and McMaster's, The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen also two volumes of Littlewood' s, Jane Austen Critical Assessments among others. In the process of this investigation I became aware that from historical responses to this novel we ca n see a parallel with many readers in the twenty-first century. In this regard, I consider certain literary theories to define the difference between the story and the plot of novels which also helps to identify the different types of readers . Following this I explore how Jane Austen uses both story and plot in the novel to entertain her readers while also fulfilling her own literary needs. I then explore many of the literary devices which form a large part of most lectures on this novel. Because there is a discrepancy between the different readers of Pride and Prejudice it becomes important for students to understand why this novel is included in their curriculum. This then falls to the literary devices which Austen uses to comment on her own social world. As an aid to this, I would suggest that one can use the films to highlight the literary devices . Lecturers and students can use visual media as an addition to their engagement with this novel. Viewing the films can reveal why they can never replace the reading of the novels and for this reason students are encouraged to evaluate the films in relation to their reactions to the novel and its felicitous storyline.
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.
Full textSilva, Ricelly JÃder Bezerra da. "A traduÃÃo da personagem Elizabeth Bennet, de Pride & Prejudice, para o cinema." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2014. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=12140.
Full textO objetivo deste trabalho à analisar o processo de traduÃÃo 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 constrÃi uma crÃtica a padrÃes socioculturais que relegam posiÃÃo inferior à mulher do sÃculo XIX em relaÃÃo ao sexo masculino. Tal crÃtica està presente de maneira sutil em sua narrativa, principalmente, centrada na personagem Elizabeth Bennet, pois Austen a apresenta como uma mulher inteligente, irÃnica, decidida e ousada; qualidades que nÃo eram associadas ao comportamento feminino durante o sÃculo XIX. Por apresentar personagens femininas de carÃter decidido, suas criaÃÃes ganham qualidade atemporal, sendo projetadas à posteridade por meio de traduÃÃes. 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 pÃblico formado por leitores e nÃo leitores de obras literÃrias, indagamo-nos quais estratÃgias foram empregadas no processo tradutÃrio da referida personagem para a narrativa fÃlmica. Portanto, partimos da hipÃtese de que, ao ser traduzida para as telas, a personagem à reestruturada e a crÃtica à apagada para ceder lugar a uma narrativa cÃmica e romÃntica. Como base teÃrica, utilizamos princÃpios de Estudos da TraduÃÃo: Lefevere (2007), com o conceito de traduÃÃo como Reescritura e Cattrysse (1995), que concebe a adaptaÃÃo fÃlmica como traduÃÃo. Quanto aos estudos de cinema e literatura, utilizamos Martin (2005), Eisenstein (2002) e McFarlane (2010); e no que diz respeito a questÃes literÃrias, utilizamos Candido (2011), Rosenfeld (2011), Bakhtin (2011), Gomes (2011) e Forster (2004). Os resultados mostraram que ocorreram mudanÃas na configuraÃÃo da personagem cinematogrÃfica, obedecendo aos critÃrios do sistema receptor e apagando o teor crÃtico encontrado no romance de Austen. Mostraram ainda que a obra fÃlmica projetou o universo literÃrio do romance para um pÃblico mais amplo, dada as reediÃÃes do romance durante aquela dÃcada, em decorrÃncia da exibiÃÃo do filme.
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 Leonardâs 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: Lefevereâs translation rewriting (2007) and Cattrysseâs postulate (1995) which conceives film adaptation as a type of translation. Concerning film adaptation, Martin (2005), Eisenstein (2002) and McFarlaneâs (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.
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.
Full textSpurr, 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.
Full textJasper, Grace M. "Appropriating Austen: Pride and Prejudice and the Feminist Possibilities of Adaptation." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/869.
Full textHamilton, 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.
Full textIvarsson, 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.
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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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.
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.
Full textAbdulhaq, 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.
Full textOliveira, 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.
Full textThe 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.
Mares, Renate. "Stereotypes of men and women, and inequality between the sexes in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice : A didactic essay attempting to show that a gender focused reading of Pride and Prejudice has much to offer both male and female students." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-741.
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This essay will discuss why one would use a literary text such as Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813) in a classroom. There is a certain focus on what Pride and Prejudice might have to offer both male and female students, since research has shown that boys tend to resist reading romantic novels and stories about girls. This essay attempts to show that a gender focused reading of Pride and Prejudice might make it interesting to male students as well, since the way that the unequal relationship between men and women is portrayed concerns them as well as the female students.
Regarding the reasons for using literature in the classroom, I will investigate what it is that literary texts can offer to its readers. This essay will argue that reading literature is an aesthetic experience, which is what separates literary texts from other non-literary texts. Aesthetic experiences have to do with the way student’s feel about and experience certain texts, and also with the artistic values of a text. To have an aesthetic experience is very important since the English classroom is a place where the students´ feelings and experiences normally are not given enough neither time nor space.
This essay attempts to show that by looking at stereotypical characters in Pride and Prejudice, as well as looking at what qualities in men and women were considered desirable, a very interesting discussion might arise in the classroom, concerning gender roles, and inequality between men and women. A discussion of this sort gives the students an opportunity to question the gender roles we have in today’s society, as well as the relationship between men and women.
Keywords: Literature, reading, aesthetic experience, gender, stereotypes.
Smedbakken, Christina. "Raising Ladies at Longbourn : What Impact Does the Bennet Couple's Treatment of Their Daughters Have in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice?" Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-12111.
Full textBlom, Elin. "Contrasting Attitudes Toward Marriage in Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth Bennet's Disregard for the Contemporary Marital Conventions." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för lärande och miljö, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-15275.
Full textLiao, Pei-Jung. "Barriers to literature study : a pedagogical analysis of the problems in the teaching of English literature to Taiwanese students, based on Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.410463.
Full textNelson, 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/.
Full textPahlau, 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.
Full textLajqi, Jehona. "Mary Bennet : The most contradictory girl in the neighbourhood." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-5589.
Full textCritics of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice often tend to focus on the central characters but focus in this essay will be on the middle sister Mary Bennet. Author Alex Woloch claims in his book The One vs. the Many that Mary’s main function in the novel is to be a contrast to Elizabeth in order to fulfill her as a character. The purpose of this essay is then to show that Mary is an important character and what it is that makes Mary’s character different from her sisters’. A close reading of the novel has been applied in order to analyze Mary’s character and her function in the novel. The essay will show that Mary could be read as a representation of the women of her time who had more faith in themselves than to rely on men in order to have a secure future.
Engstrand, Cecilia. "Can chick-lit be canonical? : a feminist reading och Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Candace Bushnell's Sex and the city." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för genus, kultur och historia, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-6197.
Full textRehm, 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.
Full textThe 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.
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.
Full textTwo 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.
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.
Full textThe 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.
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.
Full textPedersen, 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.
Full textMorse, Samantha E. "Dreading He Knew Not What: Masculinities, Structural Spaces, Law and the Gothic in The Castle of Otranto, Pride and Prejudice, and Wuthering Heights." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/58.
Full textStufflebeem, Barbara. "Visionary Excitability and George Eliot: Judeo-Mythic Narrative Technique in Daniel Deronda." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1396955096.
Full textMoberg, Emilia. "The Shameless Little Sister : A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Conduct of Lydia Bennet in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-34835.
Full text邵毅. "重寫與節約 : 從女性主義角度論《傲慢與偏見》的中譯本 = Rewriting and constraints : a study of the Chinese translations of Pride and prejudice from a feminist perspective." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2007. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/855.
Full textNilsson, 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.
Full textIn 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.
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.
Full textLaRue, 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.
Full textCaporale, 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.
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.
Full textVincent, Tonja S. "From Epistolary Form to Embedded Narratological Device: Embedded Epistles in Austen and Scott." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6444.
Full textMoring, 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/.
Full textLarsson, Johanna. "Stolthet och skvaller : En komparativ analys mellan Jane Austens Stolthet och fördom och Curtis Sittenfelds Sanning och skvaller." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-156132.
Full textWilliams, Julie. "Pride and prejudice : the socialisation of nurse educators." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2010. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/54647/.
Full textMalmquist, Anna. "Pride and Prejudice : Lesbian Families in Contemporary Sweden." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Psykologi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-117933.
Full textFör lesbiska par har förutsättningarna för föräldraskap förändrats i grunden sedan millennieskiftet. År 2003 möjliggjorde en lagändring att ett barn kan ha två rättsliga föräldrar av samma kön. Ytterligare en lagändring öppnade år 2005 möjligheten för lesbiska par att få barn genom assisterad befruktning inom svensk sjukvård. I avhandlingen fokuseras familjer där två kvinnor delar det rättsliga föräldraskapet om sina gemensamma barn. Studien syftar till att bredda kunskaper om lesbiska familjeliv och fokuserar samspelet mellan familjemedlemmar såväl som samspelet mellan familjen och dess omgivning. Vidare syftar studien till att synliggöra och analysera uttryck för heteronormativitet och homonormativitet i dagens Sverige. Studien bygger på intervjuer med 118 föräldrar i 61 familjer och 12 barn i 11 familjer. Deltagarnas berättelser, beskrivningar, reflektioner och diskurser analyseras med diskursiv psykologi och tematisk analys. Avhandlingen består av fem empiriska artiklar och en kappa. I Artikel I analyseras föräldrarnas berättelser om att möta sjukvården i samband med graviditet och förlossning. Artikel II belyser deltagarnas berättelser om att genomgå en närståendeadoption. I Artikel III fokuseras hur föräldrarna pratar om jämställdhet i sina föräldraroller. Artikel IV analyserar intervjuer med föräldrar som vänt sig till svensk sjukvård för fertilitetsbehandling. I Artikel V, är det barnen som står i fokus. Studien bygger på intervjuer med tolv barn som var mellan 5 och 8 år gamla och växte upp i familjer med två mammor. I artikeln analyseras barnens beskrivningar av pappor och spermadonatorer.
SI, ENZHE. "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE : A NEW VERSION OF ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION." Thesis, KTH, Entreprenörskap och Innovation, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-148951.
Full textAsker, 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.
Full textMollo, Vittoria. "Pour L'Orgueil et contre les Préjugés: Mémoires de George Sand et Valérie Trierweiler, femmes répudiées." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/674.
Full textTanrivermis, 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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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.
Full textYbarra, Veronica Consuelo. "Mexican American adolescents' understanding of ethnic prejudice and ethnic pride /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
Full textHughes, Erica. "Lost in Austen: An Immersive Approach to Pride & Prejudice." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3707.
Full textBélanger, Damien-Claude 1976. "Pride and prejudice : Canadian intellectuals confront the United States, 1891-1945." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=100320.
Full textIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Canadian hostility to the United States and continental integration was expressed in two conservative discourses: that of English Canadian imperialism and French Canadian nationalism. Despite their fundamental divergence on the national question; both imperialists and nationalistes shared an essentially antimodern outlook, and anti-Americanism was their logical point of convergence.
By contrast, the most passionate Canadian defenders of American society could be found among liberal and socialist intellectuals like F. R. Scott and Jean-Charles Harvey. They saw continental integration and Canadian-American convergence as both inevitable and desirable. Intellectual continentalism reached its summit of influence during the 1930s and 1940s.
The present study is based on the analysis of some 520 texts found essentially in the era's periodical literature. Each, at least in part, explores some aspect of American life or of the relationship between Canada and the United States. Unlike most previous scholarship, which has tended to view anti-American sentiment merely as an expression of Canadian nationalism, this study is more concerned with Canadian intellectuals as thinkers on the left, the right, and the centre.
The comparative, pan-Canadian nature of this study reveals that English and French Canadian intellectuals shared common preoccupations with respect to the United States. However, the tone and emphasis of their commentary often differed. In English Canada, where political institutions and the imperial bond were viewed as the mainstays of Canadian distinctiveness, writing on the United States tended to deal primarily with political and diplomatic issues, in Quebec, where political institutions were not generally viewed as vital elements of national distinctiveness, social and cultural affairs dominated writing on the United States.
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.
Full textIn 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.
Carvalho, Patrick Aguiar. "Pride & Prejudice: contribuição de variáveis políticas na determinação dos ratings soberanos." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/33.
Full textEsta dissertação analisa a influência de um conjunto de variáveis políticas na determinação dos ratings soberanos. Com efeito, contrário a estudo anterior publicado pelo IMF Working Paper Series, os resultados apontam para a significância estatística conjunta das variáveis políticas empregadas, ainda que controladas por indicadores econômicos largamente utilizados na literatura correspondente. O sucesso dos resultados baseia-se na utilização de novas variáveis visando captar o nível de desenvolvimento das instituições políticas, somada à ampla base de dados anualizados em painel envolvendo 79 países no período entre 1997 e 2003. Ademais, além da evidência do uso conjunto de variáveis políticas na determinação dos ratings soberanos, o tratamento econométrico dos dados em painel detectou a existência de heterogeneidade não-observada dos países da amostra, sendo esta correlacionada com as variáveis explicativas do modelo.
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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