How has the study of Emma and its appropriate clueless developed your understanding of how context influenced values? -Select at least 2 significant moments of Austen’s Emma and analyse how these moments are considered in order to create meaning in Heckerling’s Clueless. In your response focus on ideas, context, values and language. Heckerling’s Clueless (1995) is transformed through Austen’s 19th Century novel, Emma, where the plot and characters have been transformed to suit Heckerling’s context and contemporary audience. Despite the shift in context from 19th century England to late 20th century Beverly Hills, Austen’s main plot and ideas have been retained to a great degree.
Fay Weldon’s epistolic non-fiction text, Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen, serves to provoke readers to revaluate and reshape their initial understandings and acceptance of the central values presented in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Weldon’s didactic tone provides contextualisation of Austen’s Regency period enhancing, subverting, challenging and reinforcing the responders understanding of values imbedded within marriage, literature and moral and personal development. Through Pride and Prejudice Austen challenges the Regency notion of marriage as a means of attaining financial security and increased social status. The contrasting view on marriage between the pragmatic approach of Charlotte Lucas is emblematic of the traditional convention that “happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.” This typifies the traditional ideology, juxtaposing it against Austen’s personal value of love in marriage as portrayed through the emotionalist approach of Elizabeth, “nothing but the deepest of love will induce me onto matrimony.” The emphasis on the use of ‘deepest’ serves as a metaphor of Austen’s value that love must develop over time and must be established before marriage, challenging the conventional approach, resonating with the contemporary responder of the 21st century. Weldon contextualises Austen’s world, positioning the contemporary reader to sympathise with the plight of women regards to marriage during the regency period.
Jane Austen's Emma, written in 1816, reflects a period of historical, social and industrial change in Britain. The era in which Austen writes Emma, has been termed the "Romantic Period". During this period, literary authors portrayed and questioned the evolutionary changes that were taking place at the time. The novel depicts various themes, the most prominent being social status and class. The importance of societal structures will be addressed by analysing the explicit and implicit references relating to characters and their relationships.
In the early years of the British Empire, Britain held colonial rule in South Asia, primarily in India. This interest in the construction of the empire has come to be seen as a cultural project of control, which has set the agenda for the academic study of modern Indian culture for decades. In the following essay I intend to first discuss the British Raj in India, to establish a foundation on which to discuss the colonial authority in India. I will discuss the colony geographically and statistically and then in terms of character and the methods used to achieve control. Next I will look briefly at the general history of the importance of clothing in Indian culture and how it has been used for social change.
It was also leading to the French Revolution (1738-1766). He probably chose to set it in this manner because France is also known as the country with the biggest perfume industry. The novel set 2. The narrator is writing in the future after the events of the novel whilst telling Grenouille’s story through narration, means we get a much more sense of the story through 3 person narration. Often Suskind will give more insight into the novel than in the story.
Lynn Hunt's Inventing Human Rights Lynn Hunt's Inventing Human Rights is about the rise of these in the 18th century. The title of this book is a bit misleading though. This book focuses more on how human rights emerged in the 18th century rather than why they even exist. See, for her, it wasn't about the crisis addressed by current laws. No, it was the literature of the times; in particular, novels.
Shortly after the appearance of this work, Helinand of Froidmont wrote the first historical description of the Grail. His brief discussion is the first sign that the enigmatic and elusive grail, introduced into the world of romantic fiction by Chretien de Troyes, was on the verge of becoming an object of historical, and not just poetic, investigation. In this novel Joseph Goering elaborates on the true origins of the grail in order to emphasize
In the article, "Post-colonial Literatures and Counter-discourse," Helen Tiffin raises a number of issues in regards to the hybridization of the colonized and how European universals invariably clash with that of the native. From the very beginning of the article, Tiffin notes that there is a "call to arms" (so to speak) that encompasses the "demand for an entirely new or wholly recovered 'reality,' free from all colonial taint" (95). This hope is idealistic, especially when evaluating the role that the English language plays in the lives of those who are colonized. Tiffin realizes this fact and views most post-colonial literature as a "counter-discursive" mode of expression that is highly involved in "challenging the notion of literary universality" (96). The most interesting challenge raised by this European universality is the fact that many post-colonial authors use English as the means to express or disassemble notions of these supposed commonly held mores, thereby creating a hybridized literature.
Taruna Seebaransingh Dr. Vijay Maharaj Ms. Shannon Julien LITS 2307 16th November 2012 Brewton (2005) defines literary theory as the body of ideas and methods used in the practical reading of literature. In other words, literary theory refers to underlying principles, or tools by which we attempt to understand literature. Therefore, in the novel Midnight Robber, Hopkinson spearheads a literary masterpiece through which the theories of postmodernism and post colonialism is most applicable and can be effectively read. There is no set definition for the theoretical viewpoints, but rather an assorted array of characteristics associated to the terms which can be described as postmodern or postcolonial. Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber portrays a manifestation of various characteristics of postmodernism, such as irony, the incredulity of metanarratives, temporal distortion, pastiche, technoculture, hyperreality, intertextuality, metafiction and histographic metafiction, as well as characteristics of postcolonialism such as Orientalism, pluralism, identity, double consciousness, colonization and resistance.
Seminar paper On Feminism in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar Course code: ENGL705 Course Title: Literary Theory Submitted by: SAYANTANI SARKAR ENROLL NO: A0710313014 Submitted to: Dr. Shweta Saxena Assistant Professor AMITY INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES AND RESEARCH AMITY UNIVERSITY UTTAR PRADESH INTRODUCTION Simone de Beauvoir's gender theory is considered to be one of the pioneers of feminist thought. Her book The Second Sex is seen as a milestone in explaining how and why women were and are subjected to men's rule. While some of Simone de Beauvoir's insights might be seen today as self-evident (such as “one is not born a woman but becomes one"), other remain revolutionary till this day. Simone de Beauvoir argues that whenever there are two different human categories at the same time and place, there will always be one striving to subject the other to its rule. The burden of childbirth in ancient societies made women dependant on men's labor, and thus enabled the initial inequality.