Retracing the Gothic Romance: Instances of Transtextuality in Gaston Leroux’s Le fantôme de l’opéra and Alejandro Amenábar’s Abre los ojos
This article aims to offer a comparative analysis between Gaston Leroux’s novel Le fantôme de l’opéra (1910) and Alejandro Amenábar’s film Abre los ojos (1997) in which Amenábar’s film will be interpreted as a postmodern adaptation of Leroux’s original novel. This analysis will also identify those...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidad de León
2023-12-01
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| Series: | Estudios Humanísticos. Filología |
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| Online Access: | https://revpubli.unileon.es/index.php/EEHHFilologia/article/view/7706 |
| Summary: | This article aims to offer a comparative analysis between Gaston Leroux’s novel Le fantôme de l’opéra (1910) and Alejandro Amenábar’s film Abre los ojos (1997) in which Amenábar’s film will be interpreted as a postmodern adaptation of Leroux’s original novel. This analysis will also identify those traits pertaining to the Gothic tradition and the nineteenth-century Gothic romance as reflected in Leroux’s modernist approach and reinterpreted in Amenábar’s postmodern film on the basis of the notion of transtextuality.
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| ISSN: | 0213-1382 2444-023X |