A lasting performance: Jane Austen

• Autores: Tatjana Jukic
• Localización: Links & letters, ISSN 1133-7397, Nº 6, 1999 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Word and Screen), págs. 23-34
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The text focuses on an exploration of the ways in which body, politics and history -categories rather subdued and kept at bay in Jane Austen's fiction- are represented in contemporary film and television adaptations of her novels, when the iconic and the visual are used as a means to inscribe the missing link between an old, elusive discourse and its painfully, almost frustratingly new consumers. Also, I would like to show how this new iconicity feeds from the powerful place of authority within the institution of literature and reinforces it in return.