From emma to clueless: ironic representations of jane austen1
http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2006n51p235 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 p...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2006-04-01
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| Series: | Ilha do Desterro |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/1501 |
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| Summary: | http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2006n51p235
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 look, both Austen’s and our contemporary world.
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| ISSN: | 0101-4846 2175-8026 |