From Pride and Prejudice to Death Comes to Pemberley. A Reader Oriented Study
The paper looks at the afterlife of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as envisaged by detective fiction writer and theorist P.D. James who imagines, in one of her novels, a sequel to the famous Regency book. This intertextual connection is analysed in terms of reader orientedness, the paper describi...
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doaj-0c50f4e472ee40eeafbd2e74211d803a2021-09-05T14:00:18ZengSciendoRomanian Journal of English Studies1584-37342286-04282018-12-01151829110.1515/rjes-2018-0012rjes-2018-0012From Pride and Prejudice to Death Comes to Pemberley. A Reader Oriented StudyGoşa Codruţa0Percec Dana1West University of Timișoara,Timișoara, RomaniaWest University of Timișoara,Timișoara, RomaniaThe paper looks at the afterlife of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as envisaged by detective fiction writer and theorist P.D. James who imagines, in one of her novels, a sequel to the famous Regency book. This intertextual connection is analysed in terms of reader orientedness, the paper describing a survey that was conducted by the two authors among MA students in humanities at the West University of Timișoara and the conclusions that were reached after processing the data of the survey.https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2018-0012detective fictionreader orientednesssequelsurvey |
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From Pride and Prejudice to Death Comes to Pemberley. A Reader Oriented Study |
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Romanian Journal of English Studies |
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1584-3734 2286-0428 |
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The paper looks at the afterlife of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as envisaged by detective fiction writer and theorist P.D. James who imagines, in one of her novels, a sequel to the famous Regency book. This intertextual connection is analysed in terms of reader orientedness, the paper describing a survey that was conducted by the two authors among MA students in humanities at the West University of Timișoara and the conclusions that were reached after processing the data of the survey. |
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