Happy End of Week

Hello everyone,

I plan to respond to all your blogs this weekend. I haven't forgotten you. Many of them are going very well so far. This weekend you are working on the biography of a classmate through interviewing someone. So you have a lot to write already and I'll only ask for a little post on your blog: Please write a bit about what you noticed in the movie of Bridget Jones versus the book. How did the director "forward" the book into the movie? Was it successful? Post your reactions/criticisms/favorite parts.

Something to consider you may also respond to (or respond to instead of the above): The novel used to be considered a "feminine" form of writing: silly in comparison to science or history or philosophy. Jane Austen first published Pride and Prejudice in 1813, and it was extremely popular. Helen Fielding based Bridget Jones's Diary on this novel, which Austen described in a letter to her sister as:

The work is rather too light, and bright, and sparkling; it wants [i.e. needs] shade; it wants to be stretched out here and there with a long chapter of sense, if it could be had; if not, of solemn specious nonsense, about something unconnected with the story: an essay on writing, a critique on Walter Scott, or the history of Buonaparté, or anything that would form a contrast and bring the reader with increased delight to the playfulness and general epigrammatism of the general style

My question to you, especially if you have seen or read Pride and Prejudice is how is this being "forwarded" into Bridget Jones's Diary (movie and book)? AND how is it all gendered? If we no longer think of the novel as inherently "feminine" or "specious nonsense," how did Fielding still accomplish the same feeling (if you think she did) in her novel?

Here's one way I see:


By the way, this is Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy in the BBC miniseries of Pride and Prejudice.

Please remember that you should be responding int he comments section on your group members' blogs. Catch up on that this weekend, please.

Oh, I have a poem up on my personal class blog that you might find interesting too.

Private Versus Public Writing

I feel that private writing is something you do for yourself and have the liberty to share it with whoever you wish. But I feel that with public writing is something that you want people to see and can be any way you it to be just as private writing. I think that personal and public writing have a the personality of the writer no matter what the piece is about.

Blogging notes

I've enjoyed your comments on public/personal/private writing. Here are some of your quotes:

When I write something public I write using bigger words and I spell check like crazy, because I want people to read my work and be impressed with my ideas and me.

secrets. personally, i LOVE a good secret. i share most anything with my best friend. but for some people, there are certain things that they cannot share with anyone.

PS- notice the lack of capital letters and formal sentences in this post? yeah...my own rules.

Now Bridget Jones's Diary was written to be read by lots of people so it is public.

I feel like when you write in something private you are more likely to truly share your feelings. If you're writing on something that's public, like this blog, I think it is a little harder to open up and share.

This is my very first post to this blog! (Key word: "this" - I have two other blogs...)

Private writing, on the other hand, would be writing that is solely for your own purposes. This differs from personal writing in that is not meant for anyone to read other than yourself; personal writing can be public writing.

This blog is personal and public. While the general public will view it, it is largely my opinion.

I'd like to ask a new question which is related: What do you picture when you think of a "writer"?

Is it this?


This?


Or this?


Please note on your personal blogs, make sure you have enabled your comments in the "settings" tab. Also make sure you have made the blog available for our class members to view.

See you soon.
You can make your response to this posting part of your weekly post on your blog or a comment on the class blog. On the schedule, I have asked you to please compare the two articles you brought to class this week and any insights you have about them. Please do this on your personal blog.

Howdy!

My name is Bridget and I am a plant biology major! Here is my blog! http://bridgeterinclark.blogspot.com/

Hello!

Hello my name is Sarah I am a social work major and a psych minor and here is the link to my blog