UPDATE: Henry James & Film (9/22/01; NEMLA, 4/12/02-4/13/02)

From: Elaine Pigeon (epigeon@attcanada.ca)
Date: Sat Sep 15 2001 - 10:31:37 EDT


>NEMLA 2002 Convention, Toronto, Canada
>12-13 April
>
>
>Henry James and Film
>
>Given the recent popularity of films based on Henry James's novels -
>Portrait of a Lady in 1996, Washington Square and The Wings of the Dove in
>1997, and The Golden Bowl in 2000 - this panel will explore how these
>translations deviate from their sources. For, as David Lodge points out,
>despite the emphasis on the visual or seeing in James's fiction, it "is
>inherently uncinematic, being mainly concerned with the delicate rendering
>of human consciousness, with the thoughts and feelings that are known only
>to the individual subject - just the dimension of human experience that
>film, which deals in visible appearances and direct speech, finds most
>difficult to represent with precision." This of course leads to the
>question of how these translations either succeed or fail when compared to
>the masterwork.
>
>
>Please send (email) 1 page abstract to
>
>Elaine Pigeon, Universit=E9 de Montr=E9al
>
>epigeon@attcanada.ca
>
>Deadline extended to September 22, 2001.

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