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...Storm is still a significant achievement: movies rarely create a world this lifelike and treat the past with such devastating honesty. Lee deconstructs family relationships and social unease with as much ardor as he amplified the joyous heart of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. One wishes, though, for some greater redemption to fully flesh out the lives of its characters. The ice storm in this film, as a natural symbol of change and the wiping away of sins, is like Noah's flood without the rainbow...
...admit that Tomalin is somebody who converts centigrade temperature into Fahrenheit before she ventures out of the house and is widely suspected of having written her recently published biography of Jane Austen in longhand...
...Meets-the Advocate Award: to "Eng 253: Game Theory and The Novel: Austen and James." Really turns the screw on disciplinary integrity...
...Modern Language Association, the 30,000-member group of scholars, many of them devoted to grievance politics as a critical method. For a while in the early '90s, reporters would cover its annual conference as a kind of fascinating academic comedy club, where nutty professors delivered papers on "Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl." Three years ago, when Alter's group came together, some of the biggest names in American letters signed on, including scholars Alfred Kazin and Roger Shattuck, novelist Cynthia Ozick, poet Donald Hall and the late Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky. "I don't think...
Professor Ralph Austen of the University of Chicago says Harvard's program is unusually good, but only in a certain...