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- Title
Jane Austen's Emma Seen through the Cinematic Lens.
- Authors
Selejan, Corina
- Abstract
Given the fact that more than twenty Austen-related cinematic adaptations have been released over the past fifteen years alone, the analysis of this cultural phenomenon emerges as a necessity for gaining a complex understanding of Austen's work and the way we perceive it today. Two centuries of interpretive history necessarily come to bear on any reading, be it critical or filmic, of Austen's novel Emma. Critical material relating to Emma's being a difficult read due to its hermeneutic versatility and ambiguity has been insisted upon, as opposed to criticism with political and other than aesthetic agendas. As five cinematic adaptations of Emma are analysed in terms of their relationship to the novel they are based on, to literary criticism and interpretation, and to each other, adaptation emerges as steering increasingly away from mere intersemiotic 'translation' towards more and more creative interpretation, involving, at times, the displacement of the literary work from its original socio-historical and cultural context. This development is shown to have a crucial relevance to contemporary culture.
- Subjects
AUSTEN, Jane, 1775-1817; EMMA (Book : Austen); FILM adaptations; MOTION pictures &; literature; HERMENEUTICS
- Publication
East-West Cultural Passage, 2010, Issue 9, p115
- ISSN
1583-6401
- Publication type
Article