Framing and Reframing the Ladies: Viewing Attitudes in the Portrait of a Lady and Its Cinematic Counterpart

ISBN-13: 9783631567050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 340 str.

Herget, Winfried

Opis

Striving to leave fidelity-criticism behind, this comparative analysis treats Henry James Portrait of a Lady and its cinematic counterpart by Jane Campion as complementary versions of Isabel s story. The graphic integration of stills functioning as visual evidence emphasizes the dialogic quality of this comparison based on non-essentialist feminist and post-structuralist principles. Mainly focusing on literary and visual strategies employed by both media to represent wo/men on page and screen, this analysis shows how those strategies result in a non-affirmative realism preventing both novel and movie from killing their ladies into art."

Spis treści

Contents: Self-Reflexive Acts of Framing - Framing Buildings, Framing Minds - On Houses, Prisons, Convention(s) - Narcissism's Empty Mirrors - Isabel, Osmond, and Emerson - What's Love Got to Do With It? - Convention Incarnate: Osmond as the World's 'Evil Eye' - Observing the Proprieties - Falling for Merle - Caught in Convention's Cage - The House of Darkness - Preferring Osmond - Consummate Pieces Cosumed: The Ball of Convention - Convention Contextualized - Imperfect Closure - Perfect Endings - Non-Affirmative Realism.

O autorze

The Author: Heike Andrea Fahrenberg, Associate Professor at Middlebury College, Vermont (USA); 1990 completion of vocational training as laboratory assistant (Biology); 1997 M.A. in German, American, and English Studies at the University of Mainz; 1998 Teachers' State Exam (Staatsexamen) in German and English at the University of Mainz; 1994/1995 student stipend at Middlebury College, VT (USA) combined with assignment as German teaching assistant; 1998/1999 lecturer at the University of California at Davis (USA), English Department; 1999/2000 instructor at the University of Mainz, American Studies Department; since 2000 Director of the C.V. Starr-Middlebury School in Germany; 2006 Dr. phil. in American Studies at the University of Mainz.