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Unravelling Mysteries: Developing a “Method of Understanding” in Jane Austen’s and Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility
Published 2015-12-01“…The ability to read characters to uncover their secrets is presented as a decoding of signs and symptoms which requires logic but also a subjective projection into the mind of the other. Ang Lee and Emma Thompson’s adaptation lays emphasis on the role of sympathy and communion of feeling in the disclosure of intimate truths through the use of windows and frames, forming thresholds between the public and private but also revealing the characters’ perceptiveness.…”
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Sense and Sensibility à l’écran : l’adaptation entre explication et consolation
Published 2016-05-01“…To do so, it is based on an analysis of three BBC adaptations of Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility (1971, 1981 and 2008) and of Emma Thompson’s script and Ang Lee’s film (1995). Starting from the assumption that three of the main logics informing the plot and the narrative of the book (Empiricism, the obsession for explanation and the necessity of consolation) can be found at the heart of the aesthetics of these adaptations, we show that the series and the film may complete or contradict one another, but always with a view to setting up some dynamics that help us avoid the logic of comparison and the issue of fidelity. …”
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