Teaching Literary Theory Using Film Adaptations

Kathleen L. Brown

ISBN 10: 0786439335 / ISBN 13: 9780786439331

Published by McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Teaching Literary Theory Using Film Adaptations
• Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786439335
• ISBN 13: 9780786439331
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This volume introduces ways to use film to ease the difficulty of introducing complex literary theories to students. By coupling works of literature with attendant films and with critical essays, the author provides instructors with accessible avenues for encouraging classroom discussion. Literary theories covered in depth are psychoanalytic criticism (The Awakening and film adaptations The End of August and Grand Isle), cultural criticism (A Streetcar Named Desire and its 1951 film version), and thematic criticism ("Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" and the film adaptation Splendor in the Grass). Other theories are used to clarify and support those referred to above. The work then includes a survey of the image patterns into which film adaptation theories can be grouped and how these theories relate to traditional literary theory.

About the Author

Kathleen L. Brown is an English professor at Stevenson University near Baltimore, Maryland. She has had a life-long fascination with film adaptations and serves on the executive board of the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore.