Recreating Jane AustenRecreating Jane Austen is a book for readers who know and love Austen s work. Stimulated by the recent crop of film and television versions of Austen s novels, John Wiltshire examines how they have been transposed and recreated in another age and medium. Wiltshire illuminates the process of recreation through the work of the psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, and offers Jane Austen s own relation to Shakespeare as a suggestive parallel. Exploring the romantic impulse in Austenian biography, Jane Austen as a commodity, and offering a re-interpretation of Pride and Prejudice, this book approaches the central question of the role Jane Austen plays in the contemporary cultural imagination. |
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... original but is , it might be argued , redeemed by its lightness of touch . Aware of the difference between our times and Austen's , it switches and changes and finds different ways to meet similar ends - which might be defined ...
... original but is , it might be argued , redeemed by its lightness of touch . Aware of the difference between our times and Austen's , it switches and changes and finds different ways to meet similar ends - which might be defined ...
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... original author : they are constantly being reworked , rearranged , recycled . Redesigning and plundering the creations of the past , indeed , rather than their preservation , is a process so continuous and so en- demic , that it is ...
... original author : they are constantly being reworked , rearranged , recycled . Redesigning and plundering the creations of the past , indeed , rather than their preservation , is a process so continuous and so en- demic , that it is ...
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... original ' ( however different this original is ) it is impossible not to impute or imply an intelligence or imagination which has made choices , either to preserve , rework , or refuse the predecessor text . A criticism that focuses on ...
... original ' ( however different this original is ) it is impossible not to impute or imply an intelligence or imagination which has made choices , either to preserve , rework , or refuse the predecessor text . A criticism that focuses on ...
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... original text , I argue that they are best read as recreations , and therefore need to reintroduce the concept of creativity - redolent of the sixties though it be - into critical discourse . Winnicott is one of the few writers to offer ...
... original text , I argue that they are best read as recreations , and therefore need to reintroduce the concept of creativity - redolent of the sixties though it be - into critical discourse . Winnicott is one of the few writers to offer ...
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... original books , which by their public , objective exist- ence , can throw unique light on the nature of reading . An analogy to the contemporary remaking of Jane Austen , I suggest , is to be found in her own hardly reverent relation ...
... original books , which by their public , objective exist- ence , can throw unique light on the nature of reading . An analogy to the contemporary remaking of Jane Austen , I suggest , is to be found in her own hardly reverent relation ...
Contents
Imagining Jane Austens life | 13 |
Recreating Jane Austen Jane Austen in Manhattan Metropolitan Clueless | 38 |
An Englishwomans constitution Jane Austen and Shakespeare | 58 |
From drama to novel to film inwardness in Mansfield Park and Persuasion | 77 |
Pride and Prejudice love and recognition | 99 |
The genius and the facilitating environment | 125 |
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