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Description: Jane Austin’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 Austen’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 students’ views on this charming classic.
"Rereading Pride and Prejudice gives one a sense of Proustian ballet beautifully working itself through in the novel’s formal centerpiece, the deferred but progressive mutual enlightenment of Elizabeth and Darcy in regard to the other’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 Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Don DeLillo’s White Noise. Each volume opens with an introductory essay and editor’s note by Harold Bloom and includes a bibliography, a chronology of the author’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 • What Are Men to Rocks and Mountains? Pride and Prejudice - Stuart M. Tave • Pride and Prejudice - Chirstopher Brooke • "Not a Day Went by Without a Solitary Walk": Elizabeth’s Pastoral World - Mary Jane Curry • The Oppositional Reader and Pride and Prejudice - Johanna M. Smith • The Source of "Dramatized Consciousness": Richardson, Austen, and Stylistic Influence - Joe Bray • The Double Meaning of Character - Alex Woloch • Jane Austen and Elizabeth Bennet: the Limits of Irony - Carole Moses • The Liveliness of Your Mind: Pride and Prejudice - Emily Auerbach • Pride and Prejudice - Darryl Jones • The Anxieties and "Felicities of Rapid Motion": Animated Ideology in Pride and Prejudice - Jillian Heydt-Stevenson • Pride and Prejudice:"Lydia Gape" - Ashley Tauchert • Chronology • Contributors • Bibliography • Acknowledgments • Index ISBN - 9788130906607
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Pages : 254
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