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* M. C. Exam: 60 minutes. Please keep track of your own time.
- Please turn in your test to the silver trays next to Mrs. Basilius.
* Work on your homework (below)
HW:
- List 6, Due Monday, Feb. 9 (but I won't quiz you on them until block day): Please incorporate quotations into your sentences this week.
adulation
censure
dissemble
dissimulation
droll
expectorate
palpate
peremptory
pusillanimous
surfeit
- Austen: ch. 10--ch. 20
Contemporary Review: Sir Walter Scott
- "Also read again and for the third time at least Miss Austen's very
finely written novel of Pride and Prejudice. That young lady had a
talent for describing the involvement and feelings and characters of
ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big
Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going, but the exquisite
touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters
interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiment is
denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early!"
- Scott, Walter.
"Walter Scott, an unsigned review of Emma, Quarterly Review." Jane
Austen: The Critical Heritage, 1812–1870. Ed. B. C. Southam. London:
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1968.
Villainous Foe: Our Crazy Uncle, Mark Twain
- "Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that
one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library
that hadn't a book in it."
- Following the Equator (1897)
- "To me his (Edgar Allan Poe's) prose is unreadable — like Jane
Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on
salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great
pity that they allowed her to die a natural death."
- letter to William Dean Howells (1909-01-18)
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"I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so
that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to
stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone."
- Letter, 13 September 1898, in A.B. Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)
Chivalrous Friend: Anthony Trollope (1870)
- "Miss Austen was surely a great novelist. What she did, she did
perfectly. Her work, as far as it goes, is faultless. She wrote of the
times in which she lived, of the class of people with which she
associated, and in the language which was usual to her as an educated
lady. Of romance, -- what we generally mean when we speak of romance --
she had no tinge. Heroes and heroines with wonderful adventures there
are none in her novels. Of great criminals and hidden crimes she tells
us nothing. But she places us in a circle of gentlemen and ladies, and
charms us while she tells us with an unconscious accuracy how men should
act to women, and women act to men. It is not that her people are all
good; -- and, certainly, they are not all wise. The faults of some are
the anvils on which the virtues of others are hammered till they are
bright as steel. In the comedy of folly I know no novelist who has
beaten her. The letters of Mr. Collins, a clergyman in Pride and
Prejudice, would move laughter in a low-church archbishop."
- Anthony Trollope, Lecture (1870)
Chivalrous Friend: G. K. Chesterton (1913)
- "Jane Austen was born before those bonds which (we are told)
protected women from truth, were burst by the Brontës or elaborately
untied by George Eliot. Yet the fact remains that Jane Austen knew more
about men than either of them. Jane Austen may have been protected from
truth: but it was precious little of truth that was protected from her."
- The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)
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- Add to notes
- In
a short essay (less than five pages), keep quotations as short as
possible (do not pad your essay). In analysis (such as AP), you want frequent, brief quotations for support. You will probably end up with 10-20% of your essay being short quotation.
- In essay analysis, after you quote, you must tie the quote back to
the topic or thesis with your shrewd commentary. Do not end a body paragraph with a quotation.
- Do not let a quote stand by itself as an isolated
sentence in an essay; it should be woven into you own sentence.
- Good: Foolishly, Johnny told Jim to "Kick that skunk."
- Bad: Johnny told Jim to do a foolish thing. "Kick that skunk."
- I will quiz you on quotations (and vocab. and notes) at the end of next week.
* Work on your proposal and satire.
HW:
- Two RD pages of your champion or satire CWP (turnitin=no)
- Typed, one page proposal (everyone writes one) (turnitin=yes)
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- Grammar
- Quotations: Please continue answering the following questions here.
* Austen: How does narrative perspective assist the satirical end of Pride and Prejudice?
* This is rather complex, but some would say Chaucer employed free indirect style when, in "The General Prologue," our narrator concurs with what the Monk must have said to him:
- And I seyde [said] his opinion was good:
- What! Sholde he studie, and make himselven wood [mad],
- Upon a book in cloistre [a cloister] alwey to poure [study]?
- Or swinken [work] with his handes, and laboure,
- As Austin [Augustine] bit [bid]? How shal the world be served?
- Lat Austin [Augustine] have his swink [work] to him reserved!
- Why?
- It's as though another voice (the Monk's) suddenly influences the voice of the narrator, though there are no direct quotations.
* Work on your CWP (Q3 or Q4), please.
HW: Proposal or Satire/Championing
