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If we don't recreate Austen's nineteenth-century stories for our own time, and attract new generations of viewers, then these texts won't live on, so I'm definitely all for adaptations that use Austen's material as an inspiration, and make their own mark on it, rather than treating Jane Austen originals as blueprints that must be religiously copied. – Devoney Looser	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What's most challenging for any adapter of Jane Austen must be capturing Jane Austen fiction's incredible combination of comedy, irony and social criticism, along with genuinely moving stories of courtship. – Devoney Looser	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I'd say I find any adaptation of Jane Austen to be a successful one if it gets me thinking, or rethinking, any parts of the original. – Devoney Looser	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Jane Austen is a way for today's readers to both romanticize about soul mates and also sustain their self-respect. – Inger Brodey	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What( Jane Austen) is trying to suggest on the largest scale is that what goes on in the everyday basis of all of our lives is filled with all kinds of implications, it doesn't have to involve big things like fights and power struggles on a grand sort of geopolitical level. Ordinary, everyday life is filled with all kinds of complexities. And the closer the films come to representing that, the better they are. – William Galperin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There's a universality to how Jane Austen depicts class struggles, especially in a place like Fire Island, where suddenly there are no straight people around to oppress us and we have to find ways to oppress one another, we recreate the artificial class systems and other hierarchies that exist in the rest of the world but are just magnified and felt so much more viscerally in a place where it's only gay people. – Joel Kim Booster	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Jane Austen was writing letters, in Jane Austen usual quite tiny handwriting, up to May 1817, two months before Jane Austen death. ... For this reason it seems unlikely that Jane Austen was as close to blind as the optometrist quoted on the British Library blog site suggests. – Shauna Lynch	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I assume it would be impossible to prove the cause of death without examining Jane Austen body, and Jane Austen body's extremely unlikely to happen. Jane Austen's buried in the floor of Winchester Cathedral. – Sheryl Craig	Found on CNN 7 years ago
There have been a number of medical historians in the past, since the mid-1960s, who have diagnosed Jane Austen in absentia and who have used new medical knowledge as it has become available to glance back at the death of Jane Austen, who did die prematurely. – Janine Barchas	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Jane Austen died much too young, i think that Jane Austen early death seems such a waste that admirers of the novels can't help but try to explain it ; obviously, for some people, the more dramatic the explanation the better. – Shauna Lynch	Found on CNN 7 years ago
If you're asking me,' Were they Jane Austen's ?' I think they probably were, and I would emphasize the' probably,' because you can never know, but I think that it is likely. – Janine Barchas	Found on CNN 7 years ago
The system -- the American one, at least -- is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet. – Phyllis McGinley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire. – J. K. Rowling	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago

If we don't recreate Austen's nineteenth-century stories for our own time, and attract new generations of viewers, then these texts won't live on, so I'm definitely all for adaptations that use Austen's material as an inspiration, and make their own mark on it, rather than treating Jane Austen originals as blueprints that must be religiously copied.

– Devoney Looser

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What's most challenging for any adapter of Jane Austen must be capturing Jane Austen fiction's incredible combination of comedy, irony and social criticism, along with genuinely moving stories of courtship.

– Devoney Looser

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'd say I find any adaptation of Jane Austen to be a successful one if it gets me thinking, or rethinking, any parts of the original.

– Devoney Looser

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Jane Austen is a way for today's readers to both romanticize about soul mates and also sustain their self-respect.

– Inger Brodey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What( Jane Austen) is trying to suggest on the largest scale is that what goes on in the everyday basis of all of our lives is filled with all kinds of implications, it doesn't have to involve big things like fights and power struggles on a grand sort of geopolitical level. Ordinary, everyday life is filled with all kinds of complexities. And the closer the films come to representing that, the better they are.

– William Galperin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's a universality to how Jane Austen depicts class struggles, especially in a place like Fire Island, where suddenly there are no straight people around to oppress us and we have to find ways to oppress one another, we recreate the artificial class systems and other hierarchies that exist in the rest of the world but are just magnified and felt so much more viscerally in a place where it's only gay people.

– Joel Kim Booster

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Jane Austen was writing letters, in Jane Austen usual quite tiny handwriting, up to May 1817, two months before Jane Austen death. ... For this reason it seems unlikely that Jane Austen was as close to blind as the optometrist quoted on the British Library blog site suggests.

– Shauna Lynch

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I assume it would be impossible to prove the cause of death without examining Jane Austen body, and Jane Austen body's extremely unlikely to happen. Jane Austen's buried in the floor of Winchester Cathedral.

– Sheryl Craig

Found on CNN
7 years ago

There have been a number of medical historians in the past, since the mid-1960s, who have diagnosed Jane Austen in absentia and who have used new medical knowledge as it has become available to glance back at the death of Jane Austen, who did die prematurely.

– Janine Barchas

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Jane Austen died much too young, i think that Jane Austen early death seems such a waste that admirers of the novels can't help but try to explain it ; obviously, for some people, the more dramatic the explanation the better.

– Shauna Lynch

Found on CNN
7 years ago

If you're asking me,' Were they Jane Austen's ?' I think they probably were, and I would emphasize the' probably,' because you can never know, but I think that it is likely.

– Janine Barchas

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The system -- the American one, at least -- is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.

– Phyllis McGinley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

– J. K. Rowling

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

– Mark Twain

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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