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Title: | Jane and Jacques : matchmaking, telepathy and deconstruction in Jane Austen’s Emma |
Other Titles: | Jane Austen’s Emma : revisitations and critical contexts |
Authors: | Callus, Ivan |
Keywords: | Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation Derrida, Jacques, 1930-2004 -- Criticism and interpretation Deconstruction Literature -- Philosophy Telepathy in literature |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
Publisher: | Aracne |
Citation: | Callus, I. (2012). Jane and Jacques: matchmaking, telepathy and deconstruction in Jane Austen’s Emma. In F. Marroni, & G. Lauri-Lucente (Eds.), Jane Austen’s Emma : Revisitations and Critical Contexts (pp. 133–168). Rome: Aracne. |
Abstract: | Jane Austen's novels are about the inauspicious turned propitious. They portray differing sensibilities confounding expectation and gravitating towards each other, as well as the process by which the persuasion of a good match can come to press itself upon those who perhaps ought . always to have known that they were never ill-paired. This paper places its reading of Austen's Emma in that context. A little fancifully, perhaps, it asks whether certain texts from literature and critical theory that would normally be considered poorly paired could yet be overtaken by the sense of mutual congeniality that rewards Austen's protagonist couples. Might texts that one would never think of bringing to any happy encounter contrive to live with each other agreeably? Are we too complacent in thinking that certain narratives could never be amenable to a certain kind of theory, or that certain modes of critique would struggle to apply themselves to certain areas of the literary canon? These are not "trifling or silly" questions, to speak in the coinage of Austenian idiom. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/122432 |
ISBN: | 9788854842823 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtEng |
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