“The rich diversity of responses to Austen captures something real about her - the depth and complexity of her writings, which, like diamonds held up to sunlight, reflect something different from every angle. Her stories are not blank canvases onto which we project ourselves; they are complicated, ambiguous pictures of lived reality. We all find ourselves in her because, in a sense, she contains us all.”
Aww, that's really nice, even if I didn't really like that book. (I didn't remember it that well when talking with someone else and mixed it up with at least two other books, which is usually a sign I wasn't impressed by something.) I am STILL waiting for the writeup of the epic Fanny wars on Austen-L -- as someone wrote, "Well before our group read of Mansfield Park on Austen-L we began to experience discussions Henry Churchyard has called "The Fanny Wars" and I think those happened on the Pemberley boards too. (This is inaccessible to me! Bah http://www.jasna.org/publications/persuasions/no36/a-history-of-the-fanny-wars/) That could be a fascinating window into what readers expect of heroines, changing tastes in heroines (that's what she said) and what we think Jane Austen thought of as heroine material.
....man, I studied Morris in grad school and I don't think I've ever read Wolflings. (I was way more into his poetry, honestly.) We read The Wood Beyond the World and The Well at the World's End, but not that one. (And if you want more stuff that influenced the Inklings, if you haven't read it, I think Phantastes by George Macdonald? And maybe also Lilith, I think that was an influence on Perelandra.) (I think I bounced right off A Voyage to Arcturus.)
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Date: 2020-08-19 02:46 pm (UTC)Aww, that's really nice, even if I didn't really like that book. (I didn't remember it that well when talking with someone else and mixed it up with at least two other books, which is usually a sign I wasn't impressed by something.) I am STILL waiting for the writeup of the epic Fanny wars on Austen-L -- as someone wrote, "Well before our group read of Mansfield Park on Austen-L we began to experience discussions Henry Churchyard has called "The Fanny Wars" and I think those happened on the Pemberley boards too. (This is inaccessible to me! Bah http://www.jasna.org/publications/persuasions/no36/a-history-of-the-fanny-wars/) That could be a fascinating window into what readers expect of heroines, changing tastes in heroines (that's what she said) and what we think Jane Austen thought of as heroine material.
....man, I studied Morris in grad school and I don't think I've ever read Wolflings. (I was way more into his poetry, honestly.) We read The Wood Beyond the World and The Well at the World's End, but not that one. (And if you want more stuff that influenced the Inklings, if you haven't read it, I think Phantastes by George Macdonald? And maybe also Lilith, I think that was an influence on Perelandra.) (I think I bounced right off A Voyage to Arcturus.)