tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114395886235179043.post8747561435736772736..comments2024-03-24T08:30:43.258+01:00Comments on FLY HIGH!: THE NOVEL, A BRITISH PASSION. WATCHING FAULKS ON FICTION - PART I THE HEROMaria Graziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08876779286144473782noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114395886235179043.post-89925500156378230892011-04-21T09:14:33.132+02:002011-04-21T09:14:33.132+02:00@Jane GS
Thank you, Jane. Your comments are always...@Jane GS<br />Thank you, Jane. Your comments are always precious contributions. To my good mood :-) and to my posts! Have a nice weekend. MGMaria Graziahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08876779286144473782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114395886235179043.post-10718260213791166112011-04-21T00:58:12.996+02:002011-04-21T00:58:12.996+02:00Well, chances are I won't get to watch the ser...Well, chances are I won't get to watch the series, but your summary of his discussion of a handful of protagonists was simply wonderful. Exactly the kind of thing I love to read. I haven't actually read Robinson Crusoe, but now I feel I must. I'm fascinated by Becky Sharp, not only as a character in a novel, but as a meta type. And who could not love Tom Jones--he is completely lovable and heroic in his humanity.<br /><br />Well done, Maria.JaneGShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11094501834387622997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114395886235179043.post-83062642634004977172011-04-19T12:25:15.521+02:002011-04-19T12:25:15.521+02:00Thanks for your response, MG. :)
While an interes...Thanks for your response, MG. :)<br /><br />While an interesting show (and you're right, far too few of this kind of programme), I just thought episode one was really one-sided, and for the most part throughout the series, he ignored female writers. Austen and the Brontës are world famous, and for good reasons. There are plenty of great male AND female authors over the course of UK literature history, just a shame he chose to focus so hard on just one of them instead of both. :(<br /><br />On the plus side, the series showed a beautiful Gothic building (where he talks about <i>The Castle of Otranto</i>, which prompted me to download it for Kindle) and made me listen to <i>Clarissa</i> starring Richard Armitage. So that's good! :)Traxyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13249884092846934427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114395886235179043.post-44047695131560536342011-04-19T06:32:12.786+02:002011-04-19T06:32:12.786+02:00@Traxy
Thanks for your comment, Traxy. I'm sor...@Traxy<br />Thanks for your comment, Traxy. I'm sorry you didn't like this show. However, if you like the post, it's Falks's merit, I just wrote down some of his ideas which I found quite good. We don't have good shows about literature and novels in Italy and, if any is on, it is in the middle of the night, when you are fast asleep. I was really interested in Faulks's analysis of the hero in the novel, and, maybe, he chose what he knows and studied best. That's it.Furthermore, I think Jane Eyre is very similar to Robinson Crusoe in her succeeding through vicissitudes never forgetting integrity, morality and ... what was expected from her as the heroine of a Victorian novel still indebted to the Romantic Age. Becky Sharp is definitely new and disrupting as a heroine of the Victorian Age and, in general, as a heroine. She's bad! <br />I rarely read Jane Eyre or Pride and Prejudice with my students (especially because most of them are boys) in the last year classes. This does not mean I don't love them. I'm reading Jekyll and Hyde and going to read Dorian Gray. Those are tales and heroes my students usually like. So you see ... girls in my classes might be disappointed!Maria Graziahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08876779286144473782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114395886235179043.post-7037976635350687462011-04-19T00:30:52.797+02:002011-04-19T00:30:52.797+02:00I didn't like Faulks on Fiction, and I was hop...I didn't like <i>Faulks on Fiction</i>, and I was hoping it would be brilliant. Part one had NO women in it whatsoever. None were interviewed, no female authors were mentioned, and all the heroes were male - aside from Becky, who isn't all that heroic, as Faulks actually admits. It was disappointing, to say the least. Why no mention of strong, female heroes, written by strong, female authors? There were a few women interviewed in the other episodes but the main focus was still on male authors. Brontë (Emily) and Austen were only mentioned in the "Lovers" episode (because women can only write romance novels, presumably?) - and then only Heathcliff and Darcy. What about Jane Eyre? What about Lizzie Bennett? Gahhhh!<br /><br />Rant over.<br /><br />Your post is way better than that show, MG!Traxyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13249884092846934427noreply@blogger.com