Résumé
Reading Forster’s novel and Ivory’s film together gives a stunning opportunity to re-assess the representation of Pre-World War One modernity. Far from presenting Edwardian England as a golden period, Howards End explores social structures, social mobility, real estate, the ambivalent relation to culture and new technological modes of communication and transport. Stylistically, the novel breaks new ground with its Protean narrative voice, and transitions towards Modernism with its mythic, musical method. The eponymous house becomes a metaphor for ecological balance, a new kind of extended family structure, a network of connections and a new sense of community. If Howards End as a novel reinvents literary legacy and redefines personal and national heritage, Ivory’s adaptation must also be reassessed as so-called heritage cinema, far from the clichés of a purely aesthetic approach. It is no period piece or marketable commodity meant to toe a conservative line, but a carefully woven creative transposition, which also raises social and gendered questions.
Auteur
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Catherine Lanone est Professeur de littérature britannique à Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3).
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Laurent Mellet est Professeur des Universités à l'Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès.
Auteur(s) : Catherine Lanone, Laurent Mellet
Caractéristiques
Auteur(s) : Catherine Lanone, Laurent Mellet
Publication : 23 décembre 2019
Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub], Livre numérique eBook [PDF]
Protection(s) : DRM ACS4 (ePub), DRM ACS4 (PDF)
Taille(s) : 1,53 Mo (ePub), 3,63 Mo (PDF)
Code(s) CLIL : 3024, 4033
EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9791035808907
EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [PDF] : 9791035808921
EAN13 (papier) : 9791035808884
