Jane Austen: a reading of Becoming Jane (2007)

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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7917.2018v23n1p11

Abstract

Becoming Jane (2007) – directed by Julian Jarrold, is a rereading of Jane Austen’s biography that proposes to present facts of the author’s life to explain her incursion in the literary world as well as the elements that contributed for the writing of one of her most famous novels – Pride and Prejudice. Following Haroldo de Campos’ proposition for transcreation and the three-horizon reading of the narratives as presented by Fredric Jameson (1992), the aim of this article is to point out how the biographical film Becoming Jane ‘transcreates’ both Austen’s life and literary work. By doing this reading of Becoming Jane, it will be discussed in which ways the made choices contribute for the building of an image Austen the person and the writer was and reveals even in a hidden way issues about the moment of production of the movie which is marked by the recall of the audience’s interest in biographical texts.

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Carla Alexandra Ferreira, Universidade Federal de São Carlos

Professora Associada do Departamento de Letras, na Área de Língua Inglesa e suas Literaturas e docente permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos de Literatura - PPGLit, da Universidade Federal de São Carlos – UFSCar.

Raquel Terezinha Rodrigues, Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste do Paraná

Professora associada do Departamento de Letras, na área de Literatura Portuguesa e docente permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras - PPGL, da Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste do Paraná e professora colaboradora do Programa de Pós-graduação em Literatura-PPGLit, da Universidade Federal de São Carlos- UFSCar.

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2018-04-11

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FERREIRA, Carla Alexandra; RODRIGUES, Raquel Terezinha. Jane Austen: a reading of Becoming Jane (2007). Anuário de Literatura, [S. l.], v. 23, n. 1, p. 11–30, 2018. DOI: 10.5007/2175-7917.2018v23n1p11. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/literatura/article/view/2175-7917.2018v23n1p11. Acesso em: 11 jan. 2026.

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Vol. 23 No. 1 (2018)

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