From emma to clueless: ironic representations of jane austen1

This essay discusses the constructions and functions of irony in Amy Hecherling’s Clueless (1995), a contemporary and loose filmic adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma (1816). The analysis reveals that Heckerling plays with the intersection of past and present and parodies, through an explicit ironical...

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Main Author: Genilda Azerêdo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2006-04-01
Series:Ilha do Desterro
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/1501