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...cites Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Wharton, Diane Johnson and Charles Baxter as some authors she admires, with Jane Austen her “favorite author of all time.” Though she defers energetically from comparing herself to the latter, Delbanco admits that much of her writing borrows from Austen??s techniques...
Rajiv Menon’s modern-day adaptation of Jane Austen??s Sense and Sensibility takes place in the unlikely world of South India, focusing on the lives of two girls and their romances with an aspiring New York filmmaker, an injured soldier, and a young man working in the stock market. In Tamil with English subtitles. 3 p.m. $8 students. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston...
...Austen??s characters tend to be caricatures of virtues and vices, according to Smith...
...present in section,” recalls a shellshocked Fred T. Baraka ’05. “Only Erica did research on ‘tribidism,’ which it turns out is the scientific name for dry-humping. Our assignment was on Jane Austen??s Emma. What a freak! I’d say anything to escape that physical and psychological ordeal.” Baraka then renounced his citizenship on WHRB?...
Gordon offered a literary perspective, discussing the commodification of women through the marriage contract in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth and Jane Austen??s Pride and Prejudice...