E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten
Reihe: Language, Discourse, Society
Tauchert Romancing Jane Austen
2005
ISBN: 978-0-230-59969-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
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Narrative, Realism, and the Possibility of a Happy Ending
E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten
Reihe: Language, Discourse, Society
ISBN: 978-0-230-59969-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
We celebrate Jane Austen as the mother of the English realist novel, but have you ever wondered why she insists on giving her mature heroines the 'perfect happiness' that can only be realized in the romance? Romancing Jane Austen asks the reader to consider Austen's happy endings as a 'prophetic' rather than merely 'illusory' answer to the contradiction that feminine subjectivity represents for history. A happy ending for the feminine subject? But that would be against all the empirical odds...




