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Título: | Victorian novels "without heroes/heroines" – Barry Lyndon (1844) and Vanity Fair (1848): (mis)adapting W. M. Thackeray’s picaresque |
Autor(es): | Guimarães, Paula Alexandra |
Palavras-chave: | Thackeray Novel Heroes Picaresque Adaptation |
Data: | 2013 |
Editora: | Universidade do Minho. Centro de Estudos Humanísticos (CEHUM) |
Citação: | “Victorian Novels ‘without Heroes/Heroines’ – Barry Lyndon (1844) and Vanity Fair (1848): (Mis)Adapting W. M. Thackeray’s Picaresque”, in Figuras do Herói. Literatura, Cinema, Banda Desenhada, org. C. Álvares, A. L. Curado e S. Sousa, Coleção Hespérides Literatura 29, Edições do CEHUM e Edições Húmus, 2013, 329-345. |
Resumo(s): | William Thackeray created, in the 1840s, two notorious versions of the British picaresque hero: one masculine and the other feminine – Barry Lyndon and Becky Sharp. Written from two different narrative perspectives, one autobiographical and the other omniscient, the respective stories develop a series of intrigues and adventures in high British society and in grand historical scenarios. Thackeray’s tales of relentless social climbing proved that the modern hero/heroine had indeed a thousand faces, not all of them palatable. Lyndon and Sharp are clearly anti-heroic figures that reveal a very dubious morality, including the practice of fraud/imposture and crime/murder. Yet these brilliant satirical portrayals would be misinterpreted in modern adaptations to the cinema, emerging as beautified and/or regenerated versions. Stanley Kubrick’s classic Barry Lyndon (1975) and Mira Nair’s post-feminist/post-colonial Vanity Fair (2004) may, therefore, be mere projections of the respective directors’ political and philosophical agendas rather than works that problematise acquired ethical structures. |
Tipo: | Capítulo de livro |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/1822/25026 |
ISBN: | 978-989-8549-38-9 |
Acesso: | Acesso aberto |
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