@article {450,
	title = {The training impact of experience in Jane Austen{\textquoteright}s Emma},
	journal = {Brno studies in English},
	volume = {43},
	year = {2017},
	month = {2017},
	pages = {127-149},
	type = {Research},
	chapter = {127},
	abstract = {<p>Jane Austen{\textquoteright}s Emma foregrounds the impact of experience on the central character{\textquoteright}s cognitive and emotional development. Experience also plays a key role in how the narrative is constructed. Having presented the impact of Emma{\textquoteright}s miscalculations about the other characters{\textquoteright} intentions, the narrative shows how she grows mentally through her experiences and how they mould her character along time. As a result of her experiences, Emma{\textquoteright}s character gradually evolves into a more sympathetic one. Such a transformation brings about some meaningful re-evaluations in Emma{\textquoteright}s thoughts, judgments and behaviour. Likewise, in narrative studies, experience is taken as an inherent quality of narrative and is evoked in its reader. In this essay I argue that the representation of the impact Emma{\textquoteright}s personal experiences have on her should be taken as the most important aspect of Austen{\textquoteright}s narrative plot and as the basic condition for its understanding.</p>},
	keywords = {Emma, human (or anthropomorphic) experience, Jane Austen, narrative and experience, postclassical narratology},
	doi = {10.5817/BSE2017-2-7},
	url = {https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/handle/11222.digilib/137611},
	author = {Nayebpour, Karam}
}
