Jane Austen’s Comic Vision in her Art of Characterization with Special Reference to ‘Pride and Prejudice’

Characterization is a literary device that is used step-by-step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story. In other words, characterization is the representation of persons in narrative and dramatic works. The term character development is sometmes used as a synonym. This representation may include direct methods like the attribution of qualities in description or commentary and indirect [dramatic] method invitie readers to infer qualities from characters’ action, dialogue, or acceptance. Such a personage is called a character. The range of Jane Austen’s characters is narrow but humour touches all her best characters.

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Pride and Prejudice: A Bildungsroman

Leviathan Interdisciplinary Journal in English ◽

10.7146/lev.v0i1.96779 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Amalie Due Svendsen

Keyword(s):

Character Development ◽

The Novel ◽

Pride And Prejudice ◽

Behavioural Development ◽

Individual Character ◽

Female Protagonist ◽

Romance Genre ◽

Characteristic Features ◽

The Individual ◽

Romance Novel

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has previously been situated as a romance novel. Critics such as Pamela Regis support reading the novel as a romance: She states that the novel shows the most characteristic features of the genre, as it focuses on a female protagonist and the goal of marriage. However, the romance genre does not embrace the individual character development of the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, which I find central to the novel. I therefore argue that this development justifies reading the novel in terms of the Bildungsroman genre. This article will examine the central features of the Bildungsroman genre and how these are expressed in Elizabeth’s mental and behavioural development throughout the novel. Consequently, the presence of these genre features situates Pride and Prejudice as a Bildungsroman.

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Gold liposomes

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100166956 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 54 ◽

pp. 898-899

Author(s):

James F. Hainfeld

Keyword(s):

Direct Methods ◽

Important Class ◽

Double Bonds ◽

Membrane Phospholipids ◽

Essential Ingredient ◽

Lipid Structures

Lipids are an important class of molecules, being found in membranes, HDL, LDL, and other natural structures, serving essential roles in structure and with varied functions such as compartmentalization and transport. Synthetic liposomes are also widely used as delivery and release vehicles for drugs, cosmetics, and other chemicals; soap is made from lipids. Lipids may form bilayer or multilammellar vesicles, micelles, sheets, tubes, and other structures. Lipid molecules may be linked to proteins, carbohydrates, or other moieties. EM study of this essential ingredient of life has lagged, due to lack of direct methods to visualize lipids without extensive alteration. OsO4 reacts with double bonds in membrane phospholipids, forming crossbridges. This has been the method of choice to both fix and stain membranes, thus far. An earlier work described the use of tungstate clusters (W11) attached to lipid moieties to form lipid structures and lipid probes.

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High performance Nanogold™-in situ hybridzation and its use in the detection of hybridized and PCR-amplified microscopical preparations

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100166944 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 54 ◽

pp. 896-897

Author(s):

G. W. Hacker ◽

I. Zehbe ◽

J. Hainfeld ◽

A.-H. Graf ◽

C. Hauser-Kronberger ◽

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Keyword(s):

Polymerase Chain Reaction ◽

Messenger Rna ◽

High Performance ◽

Detection System ◽

Direct Methods ◽

Genetic Alterations ◽

Chain Reaction ◽

Protein Encoding ◽

Polymerase Chain

In situ hybridization (ISH) with biotin-labeled probes is increasingly used in histology, histopathology and molecular biology, to detect genetic nucleic acid sequences of interest, such as viruses, genetic alterations and peptide-/protein-encoding messenger RNA (mRNA). In situ polymerase chain reaction (PCR) (PCR in situ hybridization = PISH) and the new in situ self-sustained sequence replication-based amplification (3SR) method even allow the detection of single copies of DNA or RNA in cytological and histological material. However, there is a number of considerable problems with the in situ PCR methods available today: False positives due to mis-priming of DNA breakdown products contained in several types of cells causing non-specific incorporation of label in direct methods, and re-diffusion artefacts of amplicons into previously negative cells have been observed. To avoid these problems, super-sensitive ISH procedures can be used, and it is well known that the sensitivity and outcome of these methods partially depend on the detection system used.

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