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Bezig met laden... All Roads Lead to Austen: A Year-long Journey with Jane (2012)door Amy Smith
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This was an interesting read, but not one I'm sure I'd read normally. I love a lot of Jane Austen's works, and found the Latin American views to be interesting, but the author's apparent need to insert every character as a parallel to real people got irksome. ( ) Ms. Smith has a brilliant idea - hold bookclub meetings in six different countries in central & south America and read Jane Austen in translation. As a professor who has lots of experience with student reactions to Jane, Ms. Smith wants to see how other cultures react to her writings. This memoir is equal parts Jane and Amy Smith, who is having her own cultural reactions to different countries and relationships and thoughts on such human themes as prejudice, privilege, and family relationships. I really enjoyed it. Guyaquil, Ecuador is known as the port of pirates because of French and English raiding starting in the 1600s. Jesuits were expelled from Latin America in the 1700s. Argentinians have a reputation for being the snootiest of Latin Americans. These are some things I learned from this book. It was a pleasant pastime that combined personal memoir with Austen discussions, the adventure of learning and interacting in a new language, travel and a tacked on bit of romance. Not deep but it kept moving and I can see why the author's students enjoy her classes. I admire her accomplishment of getting her university and/or publisher to pay for the adventure. An English professor at a California University, specializing in Jane Austen, decides to travel for a year on her sabbatical in South America teaching Austen and holding book groups on 3 of her books. A very nice travelogue, with the teacher learning a few things along the way. The cultural differences between the countries she went to are interesting, but at the end, it all comes down to Austen's universitality (sp?) of human foibles, failings and realistic characterizations. She even found her Mr. Darcy! Even if you've never read Austen, you'll enjoy this book. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: "An illuminating insight...fascinating." —Amanda Grange, bestselling author of Mr. Darcy's Diary "A journey through both a physical landscape and the geography of the human heart and mind...delightfully entertaining and often deeply moving, this book reminds us that Austen's world—and her characters—are very much alive." —Michael Thomas Ford, author of Jane Bites Back WHERE DO BOOKS TAKE YOU? With a suitcase full of Jane Austen novels en español, Amy Elizabeth Smith set off on a year-long Latin American adventure: a traveling book club with Jane. In six unique, unforgettable countries, she gathered book-loving new friends—taxi drivers and teachers, poets and politicians—to read Emma, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice. Whether sharing rooster beer with Guatemalans, joining the crowd at a Mexican boxing match, feeding a horde of tame iguanas with Ecuadorean children, or tangling with argumentative booksellers in Argentina, Amy came to learn what Austen knew all along: that we're not always speaking the same language—even when we are speaking the same language. But with true Austen instinct, she could recognize when, unexpectedly, she'd found her own Señor Darcy. All Roads Lead to Austen celebrates the best of what we love about books and revels in the pleasure of sharing a good book—with good friends. .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.7Literature English English fiction Early 19th century 1800-37LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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