Jane Austen Day : Jane Austen in the Media | ||
Saturday 21 February 2009 : 10.30 am to 3.30 pm | ||
Venue | Library Theatre, Birmingham Central Library, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham | |
Fee | £14 (includes tea, coffee, and soft drinks with biscuits, but not lunch). Meals can be purchased in outlets near the Library Theatre. | |
Speakers | Keith Parsons, Dr Pamela Mason and Professor Norma Clarke. | |
Can we make sense of Jane Austen's novels independently of the ways in which her life and works have been revealed in audio and visual media? Previous Jane Austen Days have raised questions about how Austen has been represented in sound and on film as well as in texts. Today's event explores this issue directly and presents the expertise of leading scholars and lecturers who have studied and considered how her work has been portrayed in recent decades. | ||
Timetable | ||
10.30 am | Tea/Coffee | |
11.00 am | Introduction by Dr Malcolm Dick (University of Birmingham) and Julie Shorland (Jane Austen Society). | |
11.05 am | 'Hearing Jane Austen's Voice' - evaluating some of the more interesting audio recordings of her work : Keith Parsons and Dr Pamela Mason | |
12.05 pm | Brief break | |
12.15 pm | Insufficient Sense . . . and far too much Sensibility? Searching for a satisfactory screen version : Keith Parsons and Dr Pamela Mason | |
1.05 pm | Lunch (see above for further details) | |
2.30 pm | 'The Rise and Rise of Brand Austen' : Professor Norma Clarke | |
3.30 pm | Finish | |
Biographies | ||
Keith Parsons and Pamela Mason have presented Study Days together for many years. They now both teach at Wroxton College, the English campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey. They were co-editors of Shakespeare in Performance (London, 1995), and Pamela has written a book on Much Ado About Nothing for Macmillan's Text and Performance series. She edited the Casebook on Shakespeare's Early Comedies, wrote the Cambridge Student Guide on Othello and is editing the Arden Macbeth. | ||
Norma Clarke is Professor of English Literature and Writing at Kingston University, London. She has written children's fiction and three acclaimed academic books: Dr Johnson's Women, The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters, and Queen of the Wits : a Life of Laetitia Pilkington. | ||
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