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Thursday, April 3, 2008
Literary misinterpretations
I am reading my first Jane Austen book (I know, I'm a shame to the female race), Northanger Abbey. I must admit, I did a double take when I came to this line: "She began to curl her hair and long for balls."
You're not a shame to the female race. I actually really dislike Austen. I think she did fine things for proving women could write (blah, blah, blah) but, frankly, I just can't stand the writing and plots.
To me a romance novel is by any other name still a romance novel. If I'm going to go for female writers, give me Flannery O'Connor or Mary Shelley over Austen any day. I'd rather see the theory of what it means to be a mother wound around the narrative patch-quilt of Frankenstein than in the musings of English country girls.
Follow Erin and Bob as they spend two months backpacking through Southeast Asia and exploring Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos.(All photos by Erin and occasionally Bob. Please do not use without permission)
2 comments:
HA! That's great.
You're not a shame to the female race. I actually really dislike Austen. I think she did fine things for proving women could write (blah, blah, blah) but, frankly, I just can't stand the writing and plots.
To me a romance novel is by any other name still a romance novel. If I'm going to go for female writers, give me Flannery O'Connor or Mary Shelley over Austen any day. I'd rather see the theory of what it means to be a mother wound around the narrative patch-quilt of Frankenstein than in the musings of English country girls.
(Sorry, I think my English major is showing =)
A double take because.....you had JUST been thinking the same thing and couldn't believe the coincidence??? ;)
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