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...Columbia, Miller will teach courses in gaystudies, Broadway musicals and Jane Austen's work,in addition to basic courses on 19th-centuryliterature, Hayton said...
...Fortunately, nobody has made that comparison. I've been compared to Jane Austen and a whole lot of people and even then, I feel quite humiliated because I write a lot more vigorously than them, but nobody has compared me to her. She writes quite differently from...
Envisioning a life spent in the prison library at Bedford Hills, "in the company of women who do not care about Jane Austen," Rosie goes on the lam to find the murderer. Was it Richie's old partner Mitch, so antisocial he orders his pizza by fax? Or Richie's new girlfriend Jessica, the blond M.B.A. with the six-figure salary and no cellulite? (So why wasn't Jessica found with a kitchen knife in her chest?) Was it Rosie's Waspy neighbor who makes brioche from scratch, using the seven-hour classic recipe (no freezing the dough)? Or Richie...
...Conrad, Kipling, Camus, Yeats and other writers. It has been extolled by such critics as Camille Paglia and Henry Louis Gates Jr., and roundly damned by others, especially English ones, who fixated on Said's suggestion that an awareness of Caribbean slavery ran under the ironic tranquillity of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. In England you can dump on God, Churchill or Prince Charles, but touch Jane Austen and you're toast...
...Jane Austen why Said's office at Columbia has been vandalized, and why he has received death threats from Jews, Iraqis, Palestinian extremists and Syrians? Is his dislike of poststructuralism the reason why thousands of American Jews think of him as an enemy, the P.L.O.'s man in New York? Guess again...