Podcast! Celebrating Austen: Pride and Prejudice turns 200/Celebrando que Orgullo y Prejuicio cumple 200 años

Maiken Scott talks with Colleen Sheehan, scholar at Villanova University and Deborah Yaffe, a journalist who has written about Jane Austen fans about the anniversary of the nove.

Maiken de Scott conversa con Colleen Sheehan, investigadora de la Universidad de Villanova y Deborah Yaffe, una periodista que ha escrito acerca de los fans de Jane Austen, sobre el aniversario de la novel.

Fuente/Source: http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2013/09/18/celebrating-jane-austen-pride-prejudice-turns-200/

Bath Readathon! Details - ¡Maratón de lectura de Bath! Detalles

Today, we have received the Jane Austen Newsletter from the Centre in Bath. As good as always, the news were for the special event we will enjoy next Monday. As you know, they are doing a Readathon! If you are there or if you are enjoying a tea party with other Janeite friends alive or online, you will be able to see it, because it is going to be broadcasted through streaming!

You just have to click the following link next Monday:

http://www.janeausten.co.uk/janeaustenreadathon/

As David Baldock, the director of the Centre,  has said "I have witnessed how Jane Austen’s talent unites people from all corners of the world and this ‘Readathon’ is one way we can celebrate this together."

From 11am to 11pm on Monday you can tune in to the Readathon Webpage and watch celebrities, JASNA and JASA members, children, writers, academics, Centre staff and friends read continuously and talk about their interest in the famous author.

The event is being produced in association with City Of Bath College. The College  students will be filming, editing, stage managing  and streaming the whole day.

 Are you going to miss it? Sure not, just like us! :)

Hoy, hemos recibido la Newsletter del centro Jane Austen en Bath. Tan bueno como siempre, las noticias eran para inforamr del evento especial del que disfrutaremos el próximo Lunes. Como sabéis, iban a hacer un maratón de lectura. Si estás allí o disfrutando de una fiestá con té con tus amigos austenitas, en vivo o en línea, podrás verlo, ¡porque lo retransmiten por Internet!

Sólo tienes que pulsar el siguiente enlace el próximo Lunes:

http://www.janeausten.co.uk/janeaustenreadathon/

Como David Baldock, director del Centro, ha dicho "He sido testigo de cómo el talento de Jane Austen une a gente de todas las esquinas del mundo y este Maratón de Lectura es una cosa que podemos celebrar juntos."

Desde las 11am a las 11pm del lunes, puedes unirte a la página del Maratón de Lectura y ver a famosos, miembros de la JASNA y la JASA, niños, escritores, académicos, miembros del Centro y amigos leer continuamente y hablar de su interés por la famosa autora.

El evento se produce en asociación con el Of Bath College. Los estudiantes universitarios estarán filmando, editando y controlando para emitir todo el día.

 ¿Te lo vas a perder? ¡Seguro que no, como nosotras! :)

Article: Pride and Prejudice: From the Book to the Screen

Artículo en español aquí

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: FROM THE BOOK TO THE SCREEN 

By Almudena Romero

Ever since the beginning of the seventh art, we can understand the impact and admiration a writer may cause on generations of readers, studying how many of his/her writings have been adapted to the small or the big screen.

Talking about Jane Austen, this assertion is more than true since her stories -which have delighted and will delight through time- have also been a source of inspiration for the performance and later delight of an audience who was willing to give shape to that which could only be imagined.

Several have been the works of Jane Austen adapted to the big screen and television and being the anniversary of one of her beloved ones, ‘Pride and Prejudice’, we would like to talk about it, one which started its voyage from the written word to the screen more that seventy years ago.

Till the moment, 12 have been the adaptations for television and two for the big screen on ‘Pride and Prejudice’ without forgetting the endless number of films ‘inspired’ in the story of Miss Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy. Among all the adaptations, maybe the most acknowledged by nowadays audience are on the one hand, the 1995 BBC adaptation for television starred by Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth, and the 2005 film with Keira Knightley and Matthew MacFadyen playing the main roles on the other.

If it is true there are different views about the accuracy to the original text of both versions, their success in audience as well as in box takings proves once again the audience is eagerly willing to live for a few moments human conflicts which talk about passions and feelings constantly and timelessly grounded among us. Andrew Davies achieves to make us feel in a different period so amusingly and close -without moving away from the original text- that we are able to understand how that society he portraits was two centuries ago. Joe Wright who focuses on the aspect of ‘romance’ with a very personal view though superficially -without getting too close to what is underneath the main characters relationship- however achieves to make the audience feel Lizzy’s unhappiness and Mr Darcy’s loneliness.

Whatever the adaptation of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ may be it cannot be forgotten it is a story about human relations, disillusion and hope, about a hard reality softened by the characters’ wit and ability to fight and their capability of accepting at the same time, ultimately on how perseverance and repentance lead to the fulfillment of the so longed achievement.

Originally published in Escribe Romántica

200 years of Pride and Prejudice, come and let's celebrate together!

Esta entrada en español aquí.

Hi to all, dear Janeites,

2013 is a very important year for us. On 28th January of 1813 Pride and Prejudice was published, bu a lady who had written Sense and Sensibility, and we all know as Jane Austen.

From El Salón de Té de Jane Austen and El Sitio de Jane, with the help of Anacronicos, HablandeJane, El Museo del Romanticismo and other sites, that we will tell as as soon as you join, we want to do the biggest celebration we can. We are not closed to anybody, we want to do a party without frontiers or language barriers, so please, if you are going to make a celebration, we are here to communicate it and participate if we can.

For the moment, you can join one of the three homages we are making, for the moment. We are going to show them for you, and if you want, you can join, but all the ideas and homages will start to be published from 1st of January of 2013, when the party starts, to 31st of December:

1. There is no better homage than the very book.

Just like we did on 2011 with Sense and Sensibility, we want to make a homage to Pride and Prejudice, thorugh your own copies of the novel. You just have to take yor books to a nice place in your city or town and take a pic. You can be in the photograph if you want too :). When you have finished, you send the pic to our mail or you send a tweet to @salonjaneausten

Look at this expample and its album...wouldn't it be lovely to share your city and favorite book? Remember you can send severla pictures and if you travel, you can send pics too :)

2. The global quotation
If you like the book, that's because it is wondefully written by Jane Austen. Would you like to be part of the story? Well, the idea is very simple. Write to our twitter or mail and we will give you a word of the book. You take that word, you write it in a banner and you take a picture of the banner and yourself. When we unite several pictures, we will have Pride and Prejudice quotations! For example

And you can repeat every 2 weeks, as lon as you send your word in less than a week.


3. More homages
If you want to be part of an electronic book we are going to do for the homages, you just have to send what you want to be part (fanfic, cook recipes, poems, nice words, etcetera) and we will be preparing the book. At the end, we will have the biggest homage we can :)

Do you like the ideas? Do you wanna join? Do you have more ideas? Tell us what you think :)