Jane Austen and her men : ancestors of the modern romances

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

Jane Austen and her men : ancestors of the modern romances

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

Recreaciones contemporáneas de Pride and Prejudice de Jane Austen

No cabe duda de que Jane Austen (1775-1817) es a día de hoy no sólo una figura preeminente dentro de la literatura en lengua inglesa sino que de igual modo es una de las novelistas más conocidas por el gran público, un estatus que ha alcanzado sobre todo en los últimos veinte años. Gran parte de la popularidad de la que goza esta autora en el siglo veintiuno ha sido generada por las adaptaciones que se han realizado de sus novelas. A partir de mediados de los años noventa se desarrolla intensamente la tendencia de trasladar el argumento de sus obras, particularmente Pride and Prejudice, a un contexto contemporáneo. La presente tesis analiza este fenómeno y lleva a cabo un estudio exhaustivo de las recreaciones contemporáneas de Pride and Prejudice tanto en el medio literario como fílmico. Descartando el concepto de “fidelidad” como principio taxonómico, este trabajo presta atención a otras afinidades estructurales y temáticas para organizar el amplio corpus de reescrituras ya que éste es extraordinariamente amplio y dinámico. De esta forma tras un estudio del contexto histórico de Pride and Prejudice se presenta un análisis de las distintas tendencias que se pueden encontrar en las recreaciones contemporáneas de esta novela de Jane Austen. Así, se estudian en profundidad algunas de las novelas que abrieron el camino para la recontextualización de Pride and Prejudice en la actualidad como es el caso de Bridget Jones’s Diary (Helen Fielding, 1996). Igualmente también se consideran aquellas obras que trasladan el argumento de la novela de Jane Austen a otras culturas y sociedades como ocurre en Jane Austen in Boca (Paula Marantz-Cohen, 2002) y aquéllas que presentan a unas Janeites que escapan de la realidad de sus vidas a través de la literatura austeniana como sucede en Me & Mr Darcy (Alexandra Potter, 2007). Otra interesante tendencia que se analiza es la de las novelas que reescriben Pride and Prejudice para un lector eminentemente juvenil como sería el caso de Prom & Prejudice (Elizabeth Eulberg, 2011) así como las que realizan una clara labor de apropiación del legado de la autora británica como ocurre, por ejemplo, en Fitzwilliam Darcy Rock Star (Heather Lynn Rigaud, 2011). Estas mismas tendencias se pueden encontrar en las recreaciones audiovisuales de Pride and Prejudice y en el capítulo dedicado a ellas se procede al análisis de todas las reescrituras que se han realizado en este medio hasta el momento como, por ejemplo, Bride & Prejudice (Gurminder Chadha, 2004), Lost in Austen (Dan Zeff, 2008) o The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (Hank Green y Bernie Su 2012-13) entre otras. Todas ellas, sin duda, reflejan la vigencia y riqueza de un texto capaz de adaptarse a los más variados contextos que, a pesar de haber sido creado hace más de doscientos años, sigue siendo fuente de inspiración para multitud de creadores. Para finalizar se incluye un capítulo dedicado a la presencia de Jane Austen y de Pride and Prejudice en diversos ámbitos de la cultura popular, lo que pone de manifiesto el alcance de la autora y su obra en la sociedad actual.

Sexually transmitted fandom? Why women really follow AFL

Greater knowledge about how women become fans may precipitate changes in how sporting associations, sports media, and wider society value women’s relationships to sport.

Lazarus rises: storying the self in the migrant fandom of David Bowie

In this article we focus upon the ways that “migrants” in Melbourne have used David Bowie to story and make sense of their arrival to Australia, often as refugees or as people looking for a better life. In relation to identity and belonging, some recent work on music fandom (Groene and Hettinger 2015; Lowe 2003), has imposed a meta-frame on the empirical method, substituting voices for a top-down analysis and interpretation. Our approach is to instead draw both upon auto-ethnography and to allow our fellow fans to “story” their own responses, in an attempt to get beneath the modes of feeling that music fandom ignites – situated within the narratives that people construct as they talk these stories. We argue that Bowie’s alternative and outsider status resonates keenly with people who find themselves “strangers” in a new land.

The Australian Parliament: A Gendered Organisation

Limited work has been undertaken on the subject of gender and Australian parliamentary institutions. This study of 13 male and 15 female members of the Australian parliament addresses this gap in the literature. Data from the study are used to explore the ways in which the institutions of political office operate as ‘gendered organisations’ (Acker 1990). What emerges from this analysis is the pervasiveness of gender across the processes, practices and discourses of the parliament. This is a space infused with hegemonic masculinity. This gendering is, however, normalised and/or minimised by many of the parliamentarians involved in the study.

Gesturing elsewhere: the identity politics of the Balinese death/thrash metal scene

This essay explores the political significance of Balinese death/thrash fandom. In the early 1990s, the emergence of a death/thrash scene in Bali paralleled growing criticism of accelerated tourism development on the island. Specifically, locals protested the increasing ubiquity of Jakarta, 'the centre', cast as threatening to an authentically 'low', peripheral Balinese culture. Similarly, death/thrash enthusiasts also gravitated toward certain fringes, although they rejected dominant notions of Balinese-ness by gesturing elsewhere, toward a global scene. The essay explores the ways in which death/thrash enthusiasts engaged with local discourses by coveting their marginality, and aims to demonstrate how their articulations of 'alien-ness' contributed in important ways to a broader regionalism.

Leveraging training outcomes on public construction projects

The paper explores the efficacy of public agencies using their contracting relationships with private firms to affect training outcomes in the construction industry. It develops a theoretical perspective on this issue by extending a framework that was originally developed by Hart, Schleifer and Vishny (1997) to study privatisation. This paper shows how their framework can also be applied to situations where the provision of public works is already privatised and the government is attempting to regulate training outcomes via a contracting arrangement. An empirical study of two training policies of the Western Australian government complements this theoretical discussion. We report the results of an analysis of data drawn from the government’s Tender Registration System between 1997 & 2006. As such we use a unique and comprehensive resource to examine the possible effects of new training policies on an important segment of the construction ‘market’.

Can governments use their construction contracts to improve training outcomes?

This paper explores the likely efficacy of government agencies using their contracting relationships with private firms to affect training outcomes in the construction industry. Specifically, it reports on the results of a study of two training policies of theWestern Australian government. Empirical data is drawn from the government’s Tender Registration System between 1997 and 2006. The main finding of the quantitative analysis is that in the absence of strong industry commitment to policy objectives, the contracting approach is likely to result in high levels of avoidance activity and generate very few benefits. The results of a qualitative investigation also support these findings.

Friends or followers? The relations between German soccer clubs and their fans on Twitter

This paper shows how soccer clubs from Germany’s first division have started to use Twitter. Analysis is based on tweets from and to club accounts as well as on follower numbers, and specific clubs are selected for case studies. This approach reveals that Twitter mirrors the conflicts between professional sports and traditional fandom.

Can an Australian rap fan be a social actor in the African-American social movements?

I live in the Sydney North Shore suburb of Northbridge. In many ways it is a white middle class enclave, comparable to places like Cabramatta that are identified with a specifically represented ethnic group. Gated primarily by the inflated property prices, it is a location that marks a territory principally for the white middle class. It is not a place of African-American movements. Or is it? Radio, television, film and Internet increasingly constitute a large portion of the sonic and visual landscapes of our suburban lives. In our lounge rooms and in our cars we are presented texts that take us beyond our local environments, into the places of other nations. This paper will explore the position of a fan of rap music, physically located beyond the cultural and political circumstances that drive sustained action for the movements of African-Americans. It will analyze whether such a fandom can indicate membership, as a social actor, in this group and in doing so illuminate the boundaries of movement activity in an information society.

Longing band play at beautiful hope

This article enquires into the contextual dimensions of Indonesian consumerism by presenting the rise to national fame of provincial boy band, Kangen (Longing) Band. The case of Kangen Band suggests that Indonesian consumerism entails new ways of heralding the masses that rely on and play with old generic terms, kampungan (hick-ish) and ‘Melayu’ (Malay). It also reveals some of the specificities of the Indonesian consumerist environment, in which ring back tones, pirate recordings and corporatized fandom are important resources in the formation of consumer subjectivities.