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Intermedial approaches to Marivaux’s 'La Vie de Marianne': text, illustration, film

Lewis, Ann (2016) Intermedial approaches to Marivaux’s 'La Vie de Marianne': text, illustration, film. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 39 (4), pp. 621-642. ISSN 1754-0194.

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Abstract

This article focuses on notions of ‘intermediality’, examining the ways in which Marivaux’s novel La Vie de Marianne (1731-42) has been pictured through time in the light of this concept. Focusing on a series of episodes involving Marianne and her putative benefactor M. de Climal, I explore the relationship between text and image in different sets of illustrations for the novel, and in the film adaptation Marianne directed by Benoît Jacquot (1995). Not only do these different transpositions suggest complex forms of reception of Marivaux’s text, but in their anticipation of and engagement with other media (theatre, painting, illustration, cinema), they also provide a suggestive and rich interrogation of the conditions of theatricality and of what it means to become a ‘spectacle’.

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Item Type: Article
Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Marivaux, La Vie de Marianne, Jacob van der Schley, Henri Chevaux, Thomas Stothard, Raoul Serres, Benoît Jacquot, intermediality, illustration, film adaptation
School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
Research Centres and Institutes: Gender and Sexuality, Birkbeck (BiGS), Social Research, Birkbeck Institute for (BISR), Aesthetics of Kinship and Community, Birkbeck Research in (BRAKC)
Depositing User: Administrator
Date Deposited: 25 Nov 2016 15:56
Last Modified: 25 Feb 2025 16:40
URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/15898

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