Appropriate and Scenic: On the Meaning of Garden and Landscape in Several Film Adaptations of Jane Austen’s Novels
Abstract
Oleńska writes about the presence and anthropological meanings of gardens and landscape in films based on Jane Austen’s five novels - Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion and Mansfield Park. Gardens and landscape are constantly present in the novels although their descriptions, like a description of houses, are rather laconic. Although their clear function is that of scenery they play the essential part of background and symbolic context for the plot. They are above all anthropological. Oleńska emphasizes the importance of the garden as a garden of love to build the corporality of the heroes, as a place where they are liberated from conventions, a place of entertainment and occupations and an instrument of a moral judgment of the heroes.
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Jane Austin, garden, landscape, adaptationReferences
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Anna Oleńskakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
Historyk sztuki, absolwentka Instytutu Historii Sztuki UW. Pracuje w Instytucie Sztuki, gdzie zajmuje się inwentaryzowaniem zabytków wschodnich powiatów Polski i na Białorusi. Interesuje się kulturą dworów magnackich oraz dawną sztuką ogrodową, pisze pracę doktorską na temat percepcji natury w ogrodach barokowych.
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