Word: austen
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...their screenwriting venture called She Writes Movies Inc., Randall juggles four book projects—her nonfiction country music guide, a retelling of “The Tempest” through the lens of gender and race, a book about Abu Ghraib and black conservatives, and an Austen-style novel set in the U.S. This fall, she’ll teach at Vanderbilt University as a writer in residence.“She’s a little dynamo,” said Joan T. Bok ’51, former chairman of the Board of Overseers and a mentor...
...acknowledge that we live in a super-competitive age, but there are limits to everything. Let’s not forget the new robber barons that have been sentenced and put away for stealing millions from Enron, WorldCom, and other corporations. Great authors make allusions. Ms. Austen did not lift the very language of Anne Radcliffe’s “Mysteries of Udolpho” to write her “Northanger Abbey.” She made allusions to that text and to its gothic conventions. Shakespeare’s texts play with ancient myth...
...producing male sex hormones that bathe his brain in testosterone for the rest of his gestation,” which, of course, “wires the male brain differently.” How can you blame a guy for playing a violent video game instead of reading Jane Austen when our brains have been soaked in testosterone? Personally, I find it very frustrating to discover that my brain has been “bathed” with a hormone the primary goal of which is to drive us to fight, have sex, and watch the NFL, while girls have...
...since, as everyone knows, "no woman of sense and character would deliberately engage her affections on an aviator." Laurence's induction into the strange, insular world of 19th century dragon riders and his unfolding relationship with his highly intelligent mount, Temeraire, make enthralling reading--it's like Jane Austen playing Dungeons & Dragons with Eragon's Christopher Paolini...
Keira Knightley's performances as a Jane Austen heroine in Pride & Prejudice and a bounty hunter in Domino can now be seen...