Jane Austen Quotations Index 2 : Quotes at Quotatio. Dear Austen extract: 'I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor' We had no foreboding. We were going to Cambridge to a party for a friend's 80th birthday. We took a taxi to King's Cross and rolled our overnight bag to the semi-derelict part of the station that trains to Cambridge and King's Lynn depart from, bought first-class tickets as a small indulgence, a fitting prelude to a party, and caught the 12.45 train. We were in plenty of time to settle ourselves into seats, take out our various newspapers, books, magazines, the New Statesman, the Spectator. We had spent the evening before discussing what we had organised for the months after the party in Cambridge: visiting Beate in Munich, eight weeks or so in Greece, working and swimming, a cruise to the Arctic, an autumn trip to see our New Zealand family. Perhaps we were both contemplating these future plans as we smiled at each other. That was the last time I saw you, the last thing I remember.
Austen’s alleged failings in style and grammar: we need examples. « previous post | next post » There has been a flurry of recent news stories suggesting that Jane Austen's famous style was not all her own but owed a lot to her editor.
I'm not at all sure that there is anything substantial in these stories. So far, the radio pieces I've heard and the newspaper write-ups I've seen have been extremely light on actual examples. The Chronicle of Higher Education's version gives no examples at all. Her editor William Gifford is described as "a punctilious grammarian" (he is also said to have "repunctuated Byron"), and is said to have changed some of her writing, but we are not told what, or in what ways. The story is about the work of Professor Kathryn Sutherland, director of a project that has assembled all of Austen's surviving manuscripts online for comparison with the published texts; but she says directly that "This is essentially a story about Jane Austen's punctuation".
Yet the Mail quotes Professor Sutherland as saying: Permalink. Wissenschaftliche Studie: Jane Austen und die Stilschwäche - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - Kultur. Hamburg - Literarischer Weltruhm muss nicht mit guten Grammatikkenntnissen einhergehen: Die Schriftstellerin Jane Austen (1775-1817), eine der Größten des englischen Literaturkanons, war neuesten wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen zufolge sehr auf die Hilfe eines Lektors angewiesen.
Austen sei als "perfekte Stilistin" bekannt gewesen, ihre Manuskripte belegten jedoch, dass es mit der hochgelobten Präzision nicht so weit her gewesen sei, sagte die Literaturwissenschaftlerin Kathryn Sutherland am Samstag. Die Forscherin an der Universität Oxford analysierte 1100 handschriftlich verfasste Seiten unveröffentlichter original Austen-Texte.
Austen genieße den Ruf, stilsicher wie kaum eine andere Schriftstellerin Sätze bis in die Feinheiten der Interpunktion formvollendet zu Papier gebracht zu haben, sagte Sutherland. Von Austens Bruder Henry stammt das ehrfürchtige Zitat, alles was aus der Feder seiner Schwester geflossen sei, sei "vollendet" gewesen. News verfolgen.