Irony and Idyll: Jane Austen S Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park on Screen
Jane Austen's worldwide popularity is not least due to the remaking of her novels for the visual media. Of the fifty-odd Austen related productions since 1938, forty-three of them adapt her novels to the various screens of cinema, television, computer and tablet. However, her attraction for film-makers is undoubtedly promoted by her own qualities. As a novelist, Jane Austen has been particularly recognized for her ironic voice, which dominates all her stories and gives the readers a peculiar perspective on her world. Do film-makers want this, and if so, how do they transmit her attitude of amused distance? In the present book, Marie N. Sørbø…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-90-420-3846-2
- EAN: 9789042038462
- Produktnummer: 16357233
- Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.2 cm 567 g
- Auflage: New.
- Reihenbandnummer: 203
- Gewicht: 567
Über den Autor
Marie Nedregotten Sorbo has taught English literature at Volda University College, Norway, for many years, including courses on film and fiction. For her doctoral degree she wrote a dissertation on the reception of Jane Austen on screen. Sorbo has contributed the Norwegian chapters to the volumes on The Reception of Jane Austen in Europe (2007) and The Reception of George Eliot in Europe (forthcoming, 2015). She was part of the leadership of the European COST Action Women Writers in History (2009-13), and is a Principal Investigator in the HERA funded project Travelling TexTs 1790-1914: The Transnational Reception of Women's Writing at the Fringes of Europe (2013-16).
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