Pride and Prejudice: (Viva Modern Critical Interpretations)

ISBN 9788130906607

New Softcover . Jane AustinaEUR s Pride and Prejudice, perhaps her most recognizable work, is a story of manners, courtship, and marriage. Elizabeth Bennet, the witty heroine of the novel, is AustenaEUR s most vibrant and vital literary character. This updated volume presents a perceptive introduction by serries editor Harold Bloom and a collection of full- length essays by respected scholars that will enrich studentsaEUR views on this charming classic. "Rereading Pride and Prejudice gives one a sense of Proustian ballet beautifully working itself through in the novelaEUR s formal centerpiece, the deferred but progressive mutual enlightenment of Elizabeth and Darcy in regard to the otheraEUR s true nature. -Harold Bloom Austen demonstrates in Pride and Prejudice that one can have substance and sense without sacrificing playfulness and pleasure. -Emily Auerbach VIVA MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS presents the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels, and dramas of the Western world, from Oedipus Rex and The Iliad to such modern and contemporary works as Wiliam FaulkneraEUR s The Sound and the Fury and Don DeLilloaEUR s White Noise. Each volume opens with an introductory essay and editoraEUR s note by Harold Bloom and includes a bibliography, a chronology of the authoraEUR s life and works, and notes on the contributors. Taken together, VIVA MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS provides a comprehensive critical guide to the most vital and influential works of the Western literary tradition. Contents: Introduction aEURc What Are Men to Rocks and Mountains? Pride and Prejudice - Stuart M. Tave aEURc Pride and Prejudice - Chirstopher Brooke aEURc "Not a Day Went by Without a Solitary Walk": ElizabethaEUR s Pastoral World - Mary Jane Curry aEURc The Oppositional Reader and Pride and Prejudice - Johanna M. Smith aEURc The Source of "Dramatized Consciousness": Richardson, Austen, and Stylistic Influence - Joe Bray aEURc The Double Meaning of Character - Alex Woloch aEURc Jane Austen and Elizabeth Bennet: the Limits of Irony - Carole Moses aEURc The Liveliness of Your Mind: Pride and Prejudice - Emily Auerbach aEURc Pride and Prejudice - Darryl Jones aEURc The Anxieties and "Felicities of Rapid Motion": Animated Ideology in Pride and Prejudice - Jillian Heydt-Stevenson aEURc Pride and Prejudice:"Lydia Gape" - Ashley Tauchert aEURc Chronology aEURc Contributors aEURc Bibliography aEURc Acknowledgments aEURc Index Printed Pages: 264. First edition

[Schlagwörter: Pride and Prejudice: (Viva Modern Critical Interpretations)Jane Austen (Author), Harold Bloom (ed.)9788130906607]

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