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Pride and prejudice : a bicentennial bricolage
304 pages : illustrations
- Includes bibliographical references.
- This volume celebrates the bicentenary of the publication of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, offering its reader multi- and inter-disciplinary critical essays which encompass literary criticism, analyses of the original novel as well as its postcolonial re-reading and re-writing in various forms, its cinematographic adaptations and translations, and its critical and public response throughout the years. The collection is introduced by Janet Todd and closes with a previously unpublished interview with Dario Marianelli, the film's composer of Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice (2005). [Publisher's text]
- Jane Austen (1775-1817).
- Collected essays.
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ISBN: 9788884208330
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DISCIPLINES
SUBJECTS HEADINGS
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Pride and prejudice
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Appreciation
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Film adaptations
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In this volume
- Preface
- Introduction
- Pride and Prejudice : Always Contemporary
- Two Centuries of Pride and Prejudice : Why Celebrate?
- Teaching Jane Austen in the Twenty-first Century : How to Embrace the Popular Jane while Respecting the Literary Austen
- Decorum and Deviance in the Italian Translations of Pride and Prejudice
- Pride, Prejudice, and Postcolonial Zombies
- Childe Harold and Fitzwilliam Darcy, or a Tale of Two 200-Year-Old Heroes
- On His First Entering a Neighborhood : Juxtaposition in Pride and Prejudice
- Repairing the Irreparable : The slit in the worked muslin gown
- The Reluctant Character of Mr. Darcy
- Talking about Talking : Conversation and Conduct in Pride and Prejudice
- What are men to rocks and mountains? : Self-Interest, Civility and the Unnameable in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
- Pride and Prejudice, Gendered Modernity, and the Novel
- Capacity, and taste, and application, and elegance : Music in Jane Austen's Life and Work
- Filming Tourism, Portraying Pemberley
- Austen Masala : Bride and Prejudice as Transcultural Adaptation
- Subtitling Jane Austen : Pride & Prejudice by Joe Wright
- Dis/covering Characters : Clothes and Clothing in Pride and Prejudice and its Filmic Adaptations
- Searching for Truth in the Music for Pride and Prejudice : Dario Marianelli in Conversation with Miguel Mera
- Biographical Notes on Contributors