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LITERATURE AND CINEMA: POSTCOLONIAL ADAPTATIONS. Sandra Ponzanesi Utrecht University The Netherlands. Historical Background . Virginia Woolf (1882-1941). James Joyce (1882-1941). Modernist writers. Transposition Commentary Analogy. Essentialist Structuralist Post-structuralist.
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LITERATURE AND CINEMA:POSTCOLONIAL ADAPTATIONS Sandra Ponzanesi Utrecht University The Netherlands
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) James Joyce (1882-1941) Modernist writers
Transposition Commentary Analogy Essentialist Structuralist Post-structuralist Theories of Adaptation
Theoretical Perspectives • Essentialist Approach: Specificity of each Medium • Structuralist Approach: Equality of the Media • Post-Structuralist Approach: Intermediality
Postcolonial Adaptations • adaptation of empire • adaptation of classics • adaptation of postcolonial novels • postcolonial adaptations
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