Intermediality, intertextuality and parody: resonances of Jane Austen in John Fowles’s The French lieutenant’s woman

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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2021.e75477

Abstract

This essay aims at investigating the significance of Jane Austen in John
Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman. References to Austen’s Persuasion
appear three times in Fowles’s novel, and the resonances of this intertextual
dialogue substantially affect the politics of characterization and space
(mainly the Cobb) in The French Lieutenant’s Woman. This discussion
is theoretically based on the relationship between intertextuality,
intermediality and parody, so as to consider the relevance of Persuasion
(a pre-Victorian novel) in a work which has been generally considered by
critics as a parody of values and tenets of Victorian society and literature.
What relationships are produced, in terms of both poetics and politics,
when we think about the Austen-Fowles association?

Author Biography

Genilda Azeredo, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

professora Titular do Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras Modernas
da Universidade Federal da Paraíba, com atuação no curso de Graduação em Letras e no
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras. Desenvolve, desde 2010, pesquisa com apoio
financeiro do CNPq, através de bolsa de produtividade em pesquisa/PQ2. Suas áreas de
interesse incluem: literatura e cinema; adaptação fílmica; narrativas poéticas literárias e
fílmicas; narrativas metaficcionais literárias e fílmicas; estudos interartes e
intermidiáticos. É membro das entidades acadêmicas: ANPOLL/Associação Nacional
de Pós-Graduação e pesquisa em Letras e Linguística, sendo membro do grupo de
trabalho em Intermidialidade: literatura, artes e mídias; ABRAPUI/Associação
Brasileira de Professores Universitários de Inglês e Literaturas de Língua Inglesa;
ABRALIC/Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada e SOCINE/Sociedade
Brasileira de Estudos de Cinema e Audiovisual. É autora dos livros Jane Austen,
adaptação e ironia (João Pessoa: Manufatura, 2003); Jane Austen on the screen: a
study of irony in Emma (João Pessoa: Editora Universitária da UFPB, 2009); Para
celebrar Jane Austen: diálogos entre cinema e literatura (Curitiba: Appris, 2013);
Olhares sobre o cinema brasileiro (Campinas: Pontes, 2016); e co-organizou, com a
Prof. a Anelise Corseuil, o livro Cinema e literatura: poéticas e políticas da metaficção
(Campinas: Pontes, 2019), dentre outros.

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2021-01-28

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Literary contexts: re-readings and intertexts