tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post1044137961548054475..comments2024-03-24T00:12:38.570-07:00Comments on Light, Bright, and Sparkling: The Selling of Jane Austen and the Raising of CatsDiana Birchallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18291540900938654707noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post-75747188320200205642022-08-29T05:09:15.387-07:002022-08-29T05:09:15.387-07:00jordan shoes
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I sometimes feel that way when someone starts to gush about the movie adaptations. I enjoy watching them to see the characters I've come to enjoy but in most you really have to search deeply for that true inventive Austen 'spark'.<br /> I dream of seeing a truly accurate adaptation of Mansfield Park. Then my joy will be full.Lynnaehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14717761180835909042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post-19874574906257765822009-05-25T05:44:50.736-07:002009-05-25T05:44:50.736-07:00Your post reminds me of why my friends and I are k...Your post reminds me of why my friends and I are keeping our small select group of Austen lovers small and select. In our discussions we want to remain focused on Jane's own words, not listen to someone else's interpretation of her work, which much of the time makes no sense and ruins my own recollection and reaction. Your words are more eloquent than mine, and were greatly enhanced by your lovely cat images. Thank you for a thought-provoking read. VicVichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13668098318085667188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post-25229023707895339452009-05-24T18:54:13.993-07:002009-05-24T18:54:13.993-07:00Nothing surprises me about the dog-eat-dog world o...Nothing surprises me about the dog-eat-dog world of literary critics. The TLS should have "vetted" the reviewer; charitably, I'll say that perhaps the editor didn't know. It's completely unethical for a reviewer to go in with an agenda, and it's up to the reviewer to decline the assignment.<br /><br />As for the Janeite meetings - I'm appalled by your report! Lowest common denominator is unacceptable. I encountered an LCD even more appalling at a Great Books group meeting. The leader and the members agreed that Plato's Crito was out of date and that "we've advanced since then. At least Janeites still like Jane. I was stunned - really stunned. I never returned.<br /><br />The vampire Pride & Prejudice cover also made me sick. Yes, the guy is making a million bucks, but it's some kind of other-generation humor that I don't understand.Frisbeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07394353185610393979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post-40508129595863342642009-05-22T19:21:32.099-07:002009-05-22T19:21:32.099-07:00In my opinion the majority of people watch films _...In my opinion the majority of people watch films _instead_ of reading books, so I'm sceptical about their promoting the original. I would not mind them - as in general I think that people don't have to read everything, they could be just slightly acquainted with many things while focussing on some - if only they wouldn't be taken so seriously by Austen readers that they replace the text for _them_. If even those who engage in reading Austen in depth and writing blogs about her characters cannot tell the difference between the words and the pictures, who will?<br /><br />The Obamas and the Darcys – that’s really sad. Sounds like a successful political propaganda rather than anything Austen related.<br /><br />My cats help to keep me sane as well. Best regards to yours!<br /><br />SylwiaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post-67402052926516165642009-05-22T15:36:10.292-07:002009-05-22T15:36:10.292-07:00Thank you for your long and compelling post. I ca...Thank you for your long and compelling post. I cannot agree with you more! And thank you for including abundant pictures of cats to leaven the lump. The problem with the films is that they inevitably must reduce Austen to the romantic plots. The problem with academia is that Austen becomes deconstructed, structuralized, genderized, thingified, and pop culturalized.<br /><br />Do the movies and tv shows and the zombies really lead people to read the 6 novels more often? Do they lead people towards George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and other, if lessor, great moral novelists? I have no idea.sunt_lacrimae_rerumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05659053841051896981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post-72996595734166634352009-05-22T14:20:02.776-07:002009-05-22T14:20:02.776-07:00I am surprised that your nod to any JA film would ...I am surprised that your nod to any JA film would be to the Emma Thompson S & S- I enjoy that version least of all. Emma Thompson looks old enough to be the mother, not the sister!<br /><br />And yes, although Jane is quite in vogue now, soon enough will she be shuffled away with the world's next crush- perhaps Chaucer or the Brontes will be next?<br /><br />I enjoyed this post...Princess of the Universehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15795441683354185317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post-22819787389987983932009-05-21T10:54:54.602-07:002009-05-21T10:54:54.602-07:00Another thought: "Jane Austen" becomes ...Another thought: "Jane Austen" becomes a vague sort of sacralized myth which is made up of books (which perceivers align with Austen), films, box office stars, paraphernalia; this site or imaginary exists to be appropriated.<br /><br />And that's what you see in meetings (& editions) increasingly.<br /><br />E.M.Ellenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14979942382683140531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post-40125901944544243272009-05-21T08:10:46.450-07:002009-05-21T08:10:46.450-07:00"I know there must be young ones who are even..."I know there must be young ones who are even now discovering the subtleties and rich wit in Austen instead of taking the movies themselves as representations of Jane Austen."<br /><br />That would be me! I came to Austen through the BBC miniseries of Pride and Prejudice, in college a couple years ago, and after watching it I checked out every book of hers my library had and read them all--nay, inhaled and gobbled them all--in a week or two. I reread them all the time, always with a new delight in them. I keep a copy of P&P in my car, in case I should be stuck in a line at the grocery store (one should always have something sensational to read on the train/in a line). But then, I am nearly 30 and have never been so caught up in pop culture as most of the rest of American youth.<br />~Corwyn CelestialEmmet of Arolishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03465851029524516587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post-70608427827411118842009-05-21T04:27:51.134-07:002009-05-21T04:27:51.134-07:00Most of the authors of sequels can't continue Aust...Most of the authors of sequels can't continue Austen's characterizations. Darcy is reduced to being only proud and Elizabeth as saying supposedly witty things that often sound like carping.<br />Our small local JASNA chapter has been meeting monthly for almost thirteen years. While we do often have reviews of new books and movies at one of our meetings, the majority of the time we follow the main theme of the AGM in our reading. I am not a fan of sequels nor of fan fic and agree that the picture of Austen is getting distorted. <br />This distortion is worse than looking at her as a tea drinking sweet little aunt-- as though she had been born fifty years old. I think part of the problem is that there are those who do not want to believe Austen wrote Lady Susan or Mansfied Park. One of the silliest arguments I have ever read is the one that held that Jane Austen betrayed her own beliefs by writing Mansfield Park.<br />I am surprised that Jane never mentions cats. I think she and cats would have done well together as they have so much in common. <br />Your cats are indeed beauties.Regencyresearcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10828749339318882968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post-41088690708182777542009-05-21T01:54:33.926-07:002009-05-21T01:54:33.926-07:00Ah, cats and Jane Austen. Always a pleasure.
I w...Ah, cats and Jane Austen. Always a pleasure.<br /><br />I was surprised by how little Jane Austen was discussed throughout my university course - in the term when we studied that period there were three lecture cycles on Romantic Poets (covering much the same material, since they don't confer about topics beforehand) - and one single lecture on Jane Austen. Which simply rehashed the ridiculous Edward Said argument about Mansfield Park (though, I must admit, allowed that it was far-fetched).<br /><br />My defence of the films and series (I still think the 1995 P&P superlative) is that it brings new people to the books, eventually. Maybe P&P&Z will do the same... *sigh*. I can't even bring myself to look at the cover.StuckInABookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2716833846895246215.post-64107696011922591582009-05-20T18:49:55.213-07:002009-05-20T18:49:55.213-07:00Perhaps the basic point to make is what a waste of...Perhaps the basic point to make is what a waste of an opportunity for real communion and contact over Austen’s texts. When a meeting has been given over heavily to promotion of sequels (selling them), when most of a meeting said to be about and for Jane Austen turns into an infomercial, is about media & turns into a circus of box office stars, this is not a meeting Austen. Except for socializing (networking anyone?)the meeting becomes a waste of time.<br /><br />The root of the new direction in meetings is partly the same failure of nerve one comes across in colleges where literature & history courses are abolished right and left. IN college genuine learning is failing against a majority of people now going to college to punch a certificate towards a supposed good job. Who are such meetings failing against: fame, riches, academic reputation, popularity, glittering prizes, are all at stake, up for grabs.<br /><br />No one willing to evaluate or critique Austen honestly either, not aloud at any rate.<br /><br />E.M.Ellenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14979942382683140531noreply@blogger.com