Jane Austen S Narrative Techniques

Author : Massimiliano Morini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317111337

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Jane Austen's Narrative Techniques by Massimiliano Morini Pdf

Combining linguistic theory with analytical concepts and literary interpretation and appreciation, Jane Austen's Narrative Techniques traces the creation and development of Austen's narrative techniques. Massimiliano Morini employs the tools developed by post-war linguistics and above all pragmatics, the study of the ways in which speakers communicate meaning, since Austen's 'wordings' can only be interpreted within the fictional context of character-character, narrator-character, narrator-reader interaction. Examining a wide range of Austen texts, from her unpublished works through masterpieces like Mansfield Park and Emma, Morini discusses familiar Austen themes, using linguistic means to shed fresh light on the question of point of view in Austen and on Austen's much-admired brilliance in creating lively and plausible dialogue. Accessibly written and informed by the latest work in linguistic and literary studies, Jane Austen's Narrative Techniques offers Austen specialists a new avenue for understanding her narrative techniques and serves as a case study for scholars and students of pragmatics and applied linguistics.

Author : Lloyd Wellesley Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:7768446

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Bits of Ivory by Lloyd Wellesley Brown Pdf

Author : Rajanikanta Das
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783656283843

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Implications of the Narrative Technique in Jane Austen's Emma by Rajanikanta Das Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Ruhr-University of Bochum (Englisches Seminar), language: English, abstract: Jane Austen’s novel Emma tells the story of Emma Woodhouse, an interesting, intelligent and wealthy young woman, gradually learning the importance of accepting the people around her for what they are. The novel is set in early 19th century England in and around the fictional village of Highbury. Emma and her father lead a somewhat isolated life due to a perceived social and intellectual superiority to most of the other families in the village. Bored with herself and her life at times, she develops an interest in interfering with the lives of others for their alleged benefit, especially in contriving love-matches between her acquaintances. As the novel progresses, however, Emma is forced to accept that she is repeatedly mistaken in her conceptions and ventures. Striving to match her protégé Harriet to Mr Elton, the village vicar, she is unaware that he is in fact in love with her; her subsequent attempts to interest Frank Churchill, a young man from a sophisticated family background, in Harriet go awry when it turns out that he has long been secretly engaged to Jane Fairfax, a highly accomplished young woman from a modest background. Moreover, Emma believes she perceives signs of attachment between Mr Knightley, her brother-in-law and an old friend of her family, and Harriet and Jane Fairfax at different stages of the novel. Yet the realisation of her frequent misapprehensions and subsequent repentance help her to an awareness of her own flaws and to maturing her personality. Although she, ironically enough, frequently declares that she herself has never had any interest in marriage herself, this development in character also ultimately allows her to discover her love for Mr Knightley, whom she almost alienates repeatedly owing to her constant charades. Despite many misunderstandings, the novel closes with Emma's acquaintances being married one way or another, nonetheless, including herself.

Author : Ira Konigsberg
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015010413998

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Narrative Technique in the English Novel by Ira Konigsberg Pdf

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 2544 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : EAN:8596547002185

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The Complete Works of Jane Austen by Jane Austen Pdf

Jane Austen (1775 – 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics. This edition includes: Sense and Sensibility (1811) Pride and Prejudice (1813) Mansfield Park (1814) Emma (1815) Northanger Abby (1817) Persuasion (1818) The Watsons (1803-1805) Sanditon (1817) Lady Susan (1794, 1805) Love and Freindship (1790) Lesley Castle (~1792) The History of England (1791) A Collection of Letters Scraps

Author : Anne Toner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108424158

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Jane Austen's Style by Anne Toner Pdf

A new exploration of the innovative features of Jane Austen's style.

Author : Jan Alber,Greta Olson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110569957

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How to Do Things with Narrative by Jan Alber,Greta Olson Pdf

This volume combines narratological analyses with an investigation of the ideological ramifications of the use of narrative strategies. The collected essays do not posit any intrinsic or stable connection between narrative techniques and world views. Rather, they demonstrate that world views are inevitably expressed through highly specific formal strategies. This insight leads the contributors to investigate why and how particular narrative techniques are employed and under what conditions.

Author : Tracy Edgar Daugherty
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040974102

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Narrative Techniques in the Novels of Fanny Burney by Tracy Edgar Daugherty Pdf

This book is a close study of Miss Burney's technical proficiency as a novelist. It describes the techniques she used to create point of view, characterization, tempo, and plot construction; it demonstrates how effectively or ineffectively she employed these techniques; and it discusses her overall contribution to the craft of novel-writing. The book also examines the relationship between her mastery of the technical aspects of the novel and the success or failure of the individual novels to more accurately place Burney in the history of the English novel.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 197957703X

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Emma by Jane Austen Pdf

Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in December 1815, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome, clever, and rich" but is also rather spoiled. Prior to starting the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like."

Author : D. A. Miller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691123875

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Jane Austen, Or The Secret of Style by D. A. Miller Pdf

D.A. Miller challenges the criticism that assigns the work of Jane Austen to an exclusively feminine readership & argues that this gendering of Austen's work has more to do with our perceptions of the author than of the literature.

Author : Nora Bartlett
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783749782

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Jane Austen by Nora Bartlett Pdf

This exhilarating collection of essays is the product of a lifetime's engagement with Jane Austen's writing. They are modest, searching, wonderfully perceptive essays from which all lovers of Jane Austen, the most knowledgeable as well as those who have just discovered her, will have much to learn. They are essays that send us back to the novels with a renewed understanding of Jane Austen's extraordinary achievement. Prof. Richard Cronin, University of Glasgow This volume presents an exhilarating and insightful collection of essays on Jane Austen – distilling the author’s deep understanding and appreciation of Austen’s works across a lifetime. The volume is both intra- and inter-textual in focus, ranging from perceptive analysis of individual scenes to the exploration of motifs across Austen’s fiction. Full of astute connections, these lively discussions hinge on the study of human behaviour – from family relationships to sickness and hypochondria – highlighting Austen’s artful literary techniques and her powers of human observation. Jane Austen: Reflections of a Reader by (the late) Nora Bartlett is a brilliant contribution to the field of Jane Austen studies, both in its accessible style (which preserves the oral register of the original lectures), and in its foregrounding of the reader in a warm, compelling and incisive conversation about Austen’s works. As such, it will appeal widely to all lovers of Jane Austen, whether first-time readers, students or scholars.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547401001

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Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Pdf

Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is one of ten children of a country clergyman. Although a tomboy in her childhood, by the age of 17 she is "in training for a heroine" and is excessively fond of reading Gothic novels. She is invited by her wealthier neighbors in Fullerton, to accompany them to visit the town of Bath and partake in the winter season of balls, theatre and other social delights. On this visit Catherine meets a clever young gentleman, Henry Tilney, finds a new friend in Isabella Thorpe, a vivacious and flirtatious young woman, and begins her journey of self-knowledge, as she gains a better understanding of the world and those around her.

Author : William Baker
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438108490

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Critical Companion to Jane Austen by William Baker Pdf

Jane Austen has been one of the world's most popular writers for 200 years and is best known for her works Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility.

Author : Jibesh Bhattacharyya
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8126905492

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Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice by Jibesh Bhattacharyya Pdf

Jams Austen (1775-1817)Jane Austen Has Been Regarded By Critics As The Moot Perfect Artist In English Fiction. George Saintsbury Compared Her To Shakespeare Whose Detachment And Elusiveness She Certainly Shares. She Was A Truly Great Novelist Of Manners Among The Country Gentry. Born In The Family Of A Rector Of Steventon In Hampshire, Jane Austen Had Her Early Education In Oxford And Reading. She Started Writing Early In Life. Between 1792 And 1798 She Completed Her First Four Novels, Lady Susan, First Impressions (Later Entitled Pride And Prejudice), Elinor And Marianne (Later Called Sense And Sensibility) And Northanger Abbey. Later She Produced Three More Novels: Mansfield Park, Emma And Persuasion. She Contracted Tuberculosis And Died Tragically Early At The Age Of 41. Although Not Recognized In Her Time, Her Popularity Has Increased, Rather Than Faded, With The Passing Of Years, Which Will Be Evident From The Remark Of F.R. Leavis: Jane Austen Inaugurated The Great Tradition Of Fiction. Pride And Prejudice Was Jane Austen S First Novel. She Started Writing It In 1797 Under The Title First Impressions. Later She Revised It And It Was Published In 1813 Under The Title Pride And Prejudice. It Is A Novel Mainly Concerned With The Problems Of Marriage. Four Pairs, Elizabeth And Darcy, Jane And Bingley, Charlotte And Collins, Lydia And Wickham Are Married On Different Considerations. The Main 3Tory Concerns The First Pair Who Are First Separated Because Of Their Pride And Prejudice And Later Reconciled And United As Their Misunderstandings Are Removed. This Novel Has Been Accepted As The Masterpiece Of The Novelist Having A Superbly Balanced Plot-Construction And A Well-Defined Character Development. Jane Austen Here Succeeded In Wedding Realism To A Lively Dialogue And Evolved A Witty Narrative Style To Express In The Most Vital Manner The Story Of A Young Girl And Her Love.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 1915 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547392385

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The Complete Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen Pdf

DigiCat presents to you this unique and meticulously edited Austen collection: Sense and Sensibility (1811) Pride and Prejudice (1813) Mansfield Park (1814) Emma (1815) Northanger Abby (1817) Persuasion (1818) The Watsons (1803-1805) Sanditon (1817) Lady Susan (1794, 1805)