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- Title
LUGARES/OLHARES DES-LOCADOS E A CONFIGURAÇÃO DO ESPAÇO DO OUTRO EM ATONEMENT, DE IAN MCEWAN, E NA ADAPTAÇÃO FÍLMICA, DE JOE WRIGHT.
- Authors
Fernandes Nobre, Lucia Fatima
- Abstract
The problematization of dichotomies in a plural, heteroge-neous, and contradictory world, whose socio-artistic-cultural borders are questioned and confronted, motivates the artist to look for aesthetical regimes that may appropriately face these questions. Metafiction, as an intentionally auto-referential and auto-reflexive aesthetical phenomenon, is adequate to cope with the requirements of contemporary art. Associated with parody, metafiction produces an artistic form that asks for a sophisticated reading and also demands new critical and theoretical approaches that could deal with such complexity. For the present analyses, we select the scene of the fountain in Ian McEwan's novel Atonement and its correspondent in the film adaptation, by the director Joe Wright. With the objective of reflecting about the dis-placed site and sight of the character-writer Briony Tallis and her consequent effort to perform her auto-justification, we investigate the elaboration of metafictional narratives in the selected material and we notice that the conflict between ethics and aesthetics results in the configuration of the other's space.
- Subjects
FICTION writing techniques; ATONEMENT (Book : McEwan); MCEWAN, Ian, 1942-; FILM adaptations; ATONEMENT (Film); WRIGHT, Joe, 1972-; LITERARY ethics; AESTHETICS
- Publication
Ilha do Desterro: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English & Cultural Studies, 2013, Issue 65, p147
- ISSN
0101-4846
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5007/2175-8026.2013n65p147