Segal, Naomi (2008) Circuits of desire and loss: Marivaux and My Best Friend’s Wedding. Journal of Romance Studies 8 (3), pp. 41-50. ISSN 1473-3536.
Abstract
This article draws a number of parallels between Marivaux's love comedies and the 1997 Hollywood comedy My Best Friend's Wedding. It looks at configurations of desire in terms of a series of 'coloured shapes moving in space': the chase, the chain, a variety of triangles (leaning, here, on comparisons with both classical tragedy and the nineteenth-century novel of adultery) and of configurations of four. What is the nature of the happy ending in comedy that brings resolution out of the defeat of a third party? How do formal arrangements induce in the audience a willingness to loop the circuit of desire in such a way that it can end on reason or dance?
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | comedy, configurations of four, love, Marivaux, My Best friend's Wedding, The Chase, triangular desire |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
| Date Deposited: | 27 May 2014 09:41 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:35 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/9793 |
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