Tagged: Austen

Ten P&P literary adaptations

March 1, 2021 at 8:20 pm

In light of Professor Joseph Rezek lecturing on Jane Austen this week in CC202, we present for your pleasure and delight this list of literary adaptations of Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: First Impressions (2010) by Alexa Adams An Assembly Such As This (2006) by Pamela Aidan Charlotte (2012) by Karen Aminadra Mr. Darcys Daughters (2003) […]

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Core Meets Core: Virginia Woolf on Jane Austen

January 25, 2019 at 3:07 pm

In her 1913 essay, Virginia Woolf writes on the merits and failings of Jane Austen. While Woolf describes Austen as “singularly blessed,” she also critiques Austen’s lack of rebellion of her “artificial” life. For Woolf, Austen someone satirizes middle class life and the fools who inhabit it, but never fully pushes away from it. Perhaps […]

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From The Wall Street Journal: The Classic Books You Haven’t Read

September 28, 2016 at 12:57 am

Finnegans Wake and Fifty Shades of Grey are at two extremes of the incomprehensible: one is a classic that befuddles; the other a plastic that bewilders. Many feel guilty about not having read the books of the first kind. And most of these would be unwilling to expiate themselves in any shade or variation recommended […]

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Core to see Pride & Prejudice on stage

March 8, 2012 at 1:42 pm

On March 20th, the second-year Core Humanities students will hear a lecture on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice by the novelist Allegra Goodman.  Dr. Goodman’s most recent book The Cookbook Collector has been described as a “Sense and Sensibility for the digital age.” We are fortunate that a theatrical version of Pride and Prejudice is […]

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Analects of the Core: Austen on stupid men (and some Austeniana)

September 8, 2011 at 2:54 pm

Thank Heaven! I am going to-morrow where I shall find a man who has not one agreeable quality, who has neither manner nor sense to recommend him. Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all. — Elizabeth Bennet, in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Volume II, Chapter iv, 151-152 (Penguin Classics edition) * […]

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Analects of the Core: Austen on vanity and pride

March 4, 2011 at 12:44 pm

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. -Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 5. Lynn Festa will be lecturing to the students of […]

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