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Literary responses | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | |
Literary responses | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Robert Emmet Long
(arguably insufficiently attentive to the loving pastiche of the young Austen) called the screenplay so textured and literary that it is surprising it works. Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams, 1991. 111 |
Literary responses | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Updike
again complained about RPJ
's refusal of sympathy to her characters. Robert Towers
went further: linking this with Jhabvala's gender and (British) nationality, he accused her of revelling in her characters' discomfiture and degradation... |
Literary responses | Sylvia Townsend Warner | In the Saturday Review, American critic Robert Emmet Long
praised her exceptional craftsmanship and the quality of her imagination. Short Story Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers. Gale Research, 1988–2024, Numerous volumes. 23: 375 |
Literary responses | Barbara Pym | Recent commentators (Charles Burkhart
, Robert Emmet Long
, Diana Benet
, and Janice Rossen
) have expressed significant dissatisfaction with the ways in which this novel's conclusion overturns comic, romantic conventions, and have... |
Literary responses | Barbara Pym | It was well reviewed by another novelist, Lady Cynthia Asquith
. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 325 |
Residence | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Film critic Robert Emmet Long
mentions that the three collaborators regularly breakfasted together. Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams, 1991. 19 |
Textual Features | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | According to Robert Emmet Long
, this screenplay is a model of craftsmanship that refocuses urbanely Rubens's story of the fragility of relationships. Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams, 1991. 163 |
Textual Features | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | The story is set in Kansas City in the 1930s: her first mid-American film. Robert Emmet Long
notes the script's fluid and minimalist quality, Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams, 1991. 172, 175, 177-8 |
Textual Production | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | RPJ
declined, however, to write the screenplay for the next Merchant-Ivory film, released the following year, from Forster
's homosexual novel Maurice, unpublished during his lifetime. Laurie Sucher
says RPJ
felt this novel to... |
Textual Production | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | This work originated as a screenplay; Robert Emmet Long
calls it RPJ
's most cinematic novel. Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams, 1991. 23 |
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