Episode 199: The Best of Series In Search of the Austen Adaptation: Sense and Sensibility, Ep. 138
Due to illness among our hosts and holiday travel plans, we are airing a Best Of Series episode this week instead of our previously planned episode on The Mind of the Maker. Please enjoy this lighthearted discussion as you prepare for your Thanksgiving feasting, and join us right here next week for a very special 200th episode featuring our Friends and Fellows and introducing the 2024 Reading Challenge!
Today on The Literary Life Podcast we bring you another fun episode in our \u201cIn Search of the Austen Adaptation\u201d series. Hosts Angelina Stanford, Cindy Rollins and Thomas Banks are joined by resident film aficionado, Atlee Northmore to discuss film adaptations on\xa0Sense and Sensibility.\xa0The conversation opens by revisiting the question of what makes a good adaptation of a book when translating it for the screen. They talk about the challenges of showing modern audiences the characters and situations as Jane Austen meant them to be understood. Atlee gives a brief overview of the lesser known film adaptations, as well as a more in depth discussion of the 1995 and 2008 versions. You can access the\xa0PDF he created with links to watch here.
Commonplace Quotes:Sound principles that are old may easily be laid on the shelf and forgotten, unless in each successive generation a few industrious people can be found who will take the trouble to draw them forth from the storehouse.
Thomas Ruper, as quoted by Karen Glass
His senile fury was not exhausted by endless repetition.
Eric Linklater
\u2018Remember, no one is made up of one fault, everyone is much greater than all his faults,\u2019 and then she would add with a smile: \u2018I find it much easier to put up with people\u2019s faults than with their virtues!\u2019
Charlotte Mason, as quoted by Essex Cholmondeley
Selection from With a Guitar, To JaneThe great abstract nouns of the classical English moralists are unblushingly and uncompromisingly used: good sense, courage, contentment, fortitude, some duty neglected, some failing indulged, impropriety, indelicacy, generous candor, blameable distrust, just humiliation, vanity, folly, ignorance, reason. These are the concepts by which Jane Austen grasps the world. In her we still breathe the air of the Rambler and Idler. All is hard, clear, definable; by some modern standards, even na\xefvely so. The hardness is, of course, for oneself, not for one\u2019s neighbours. It reveals to Marianne her want \u2018of kindness\u2019 and shows Emma that her behaviour has been \u2018unfeeling\u2019. Contrasted with the world of modern fiction, Jane Austen\u2019s is at once less soft and less cruel.
C. S. Lewis
by Percy Shelley
Ariel to Miranda:-- Take This slave of music, for the sake Of him who is the slave of thee; And teach it all the harmony In which thou canst, and only thou, Make the delighted spirit glow, Till joy denies itself again And, too intense, is turned to pain. For by permission and command Of thine own Prince Ferdinand, Poor Ariel sends this silent token Of more than ever can be spoken; Your guardian spirit, Ariel, who From life to life must still pursue Your happiness,-- for thus alone Can Ariel ever find his own. From Prospero's enchanted cell, As the mighty verses tell, To the throne of Naples he Lit you o'er the trackless sea, Flitting on, your prow before, Like a living meteor. When you die, the silent Moon In her interlunar swoon Is not sadder in her cell Than deserted Ariel.Book List:
In Vital Harmony by Karen Glass
The Story of Charlotte Mason by Essex Cholmondeley
Robert the Bruce by Eric Linklater
C. S. Lewis\u2019 Selected Literary Essays edited by Walter Hooper
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