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Jane Austen’s Emma has been identified as a core example of the bildungsroman – a novel charting the formative years of a person’s coming-of-age in terms of moral and spiritual development – and is, moreover, replete with fascinating incidents which serve as paradigm examples of moral enquiry into the nature and justification of actions and judgments The novel depicts the ethical and character formation of a socially privileged young woman who – in need of entertainment and worthwhile productive activity – seeks to fill her time by a series of ill-judged match-making projects which have wide-ranging consequences for the people involved. In the process, Emma’s moral development is revealed in a number of key episodes, and is guided by the social mores of the early 19th century under the tutelage of the more experienced and mature friend and neighbour, Mr. Knightley. This formative story displays the cultivation of particular kind of virtuous character – involving the movement from a self-regarding to an other-regarding approach to social life and relationships – not unlike the unselfing process recommended by writers and philosophers such as Iris Murdoch and Galen Strawson, as well as Buddhist mindfulness practitioners. Following an examination and analysis of some of the key themes in Austen’s novel, some lessons will be drawn for moral education theory and practice.
ABSTRACT Given the fact that more than twenty Austen-related cinematic adaptations have been released over the past fifteen years alone, the analysis of this cultural phenomenon emerges as a necessity for gaining a complex understanding of Austen’s work and the way we perceive it today. Two centuries of interpretive history necessarily come to bear on any reading, be it critical or filmic, of Austen’s novel Emma. Critical material relating to Emma’s being a difficult read due to its hermeneutic versatility and ambiguity has been insisted upon, as opposed to criticism with political and other than aesthetic agendas. As five cinematic adaptations of Emma are analysed in terms of their relationship to the novel they are based on, to literary criticism and interpretation, and to each other, adaptation emerges as steering increasingly away from mere intersemiotic ‘translation’ towards more and more creative interpretation, involving, at times, the displacement of the literary work from its original socio-historical and cultural context. This development is shown to have a crucial relevance to contemporary culture. KEYWORDS: Austen’s interpretive history, Emma’s hermeneutic difficulty, cinematic adaptation, fidelity, intertextuality, ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture, recent trends in filmic adaptation.
International Journal of English Language, Literature and Translation Studies
Neither handsome, clever nor rich. Miguel Ángel Jordán.pdf2019 •
In Jane Austen's novels we can find varied characters, although all described with realism and coherence, according to the sociohistorical context of this author. Through these characters, Austen offers us a faithful reflection of the society of her time and highlights some of the social injustices that limited the lives of women of that period. This article offers a detailed analysis of Miss Bates, from the novel Emma, with which it is intended to demonstrate that this character, apparently secondary and ridiculed, is of great relevance for the development of the plot, and is also the resource that Austen uses to show the socioeconomic predetermination of her time. Before carrying out this analysis, first we will offer a section on the role of the spinsters in the works of Austen and in her historical context, and later, another section dedicated to the definition and characteristics of the flat characters. This theoretical framework will allow us to appreciate in more detail the historical realism with which Austen describes the character of Miss Bates and the relevance of that character for the development of the plot.
Brno studies in English
The Training Impact of Experience in Jane Austen's Emma2017 •
Jane Austen's Emma foregrounds the impact of experience on the central char-acter's cognitive and emotional development. Experience also plays a key role in how the narrative is constructed. Having presented the impact of Emma's miscalculations about the other characters' intentions, the narrative shows how she grows mentally through her experiences and how they mould her character along time. As a result of her experiences, Emma's character gradually evolves into a more sympathetic one. Such a transformation brings about some meaningful re-evaluations in Emma's thoughts, judgments and behaviour. Likewise, in narrative studies, experience is taken as an inherent quality of narrative and is evoked in its reader. In this essay I argue that the representation of the impact Emma's personal experiences have on her should be taken as the most important aspect of Austen's narrative plot and as the basic condition for its understanding.
Representations
Austen Equilibrium2018 •
This article proposes a quantitative game-theory model of Jane Austen's _Emma_ as a basis for arguing that free-market moral philosophy underwrites Austen's representation of matrimony and key formal elements of her writing – in particular, matters of verbal profusion, such as concision and pacing. Austen's famed stylistic "economy" is revealed to be structured by the emerging capitalist economy theorized by Adam Smith in _The Wealth of Nations_. Establishing the correspondences among several kinds of economy – quantitative, capitalist, verbal, temporal – the essay unites formal and economic approaches to Austen's work. Winner of the INCS Stein.Essay Prize for best article published in 2018.
Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context
Voice Style in Narrative Fiction: A Friendly Critique of the Categories of Graham Hough2009 •
This study is intended to show elements of nature used in the novel Emma written by Jane Austen. As far as the novel is a romantic work, importance of nature in Romanticism both external nature and internal one and how the romantic writer has used these elements in his work, will be considered. For this there is a biography of the author and the era which the novel has been written and importance of nature in that era. To understand better how the mind of the author is influenced by the nature as its clues could be seen in the work of art. So the main purpose of this paper is extracting elements of nature in Emma a novel in Romanticism era, as the nature is an important subject in romanticism. We will get some evidences which show how the nature is described as a healing power, a place for peace and simplicity of life without stresses of life in cities and has a big influence on the mood of man and internal nature of him. Keywords: nature, Romanticism, Emma
Emma is a novel written by Jane Austen, which is based on real-life situations of the eighteenth century England. Austen depicts her novels to show clearly the customs and traditions that people had to use in order to get married; her dissatisfaction towards all these conditions; male dominance and also the consideration of women as weak human beings with limited rights. Based on all these issues, Austen chooses different kinds of marriages, mainly based on economical interest. Most of the people in her novels see the marriage as an obligation which had to be fulfilled; most of the girls got involved into a marriage market where parents decided what was good or bad for them. This paper describes the conditions of unmarried and married women Emma; the ways how the unmarried women chose the partners; the ways how Austen compared the conditions of women with the real life situations of the eighteenth century Britain; how she used irony to show her dissatisfaction towards the traditions of that time, and also the real message she conveys to the world.
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