Helen Fielding

manifested in Forster’s novel. F. R. Leavis calls Forster "pre-eminently a novelist of civilized personal relation"(Mr E. M. Forster p.102). In all his five books Forster has focused on the aspects of human relationships. I've often thought about it, Helen. It's one of the most interesting things in the world. The truth is that there is a great outer life that you and I have never touched--a life in which telegrams and anger count. Personal relations, that we think supreme, are not supreme…

funny as men. For some reason, he wrote, ‘women do not find their own physical decay and absurdity to be so riotously amusing’, which is why we admire Lucille Ball and Helen Fielding, who do see the funny side of it” (Stanley 7). Jenny Lawson chooses to express her comedic content similar to that of Lucille Ball and Helen Fielding. Contrary to common belief, women do find jokes about their bodies funny and are very much interested in “dick and fart” jokes. Within Lawson’s text she states,…

answer the following two questions. Do chick lit novels “write beyond the ending” and in that way react against the dominant patriarchal romance tradition? Are the chick lit protagonists portrayed as ‘heroes’ or ‘heroines? Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen…

and evidently about the women lifestyle. These novels are described as “a type of fiction , typically focusing on the social lives and relationships of young professional women, and often aimed at readers with similar experiences” (Rende, 3). Both Helen Fielding's 1996 novel, Bridget Jone's Diary, and Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel, The Devil Wears Prada, can be categorized in the chick lit genre today. The Devil Wears Prada resembles the course text, Bridget Jone's Diary in many ways.…