Intermedial Approaches to Marivaux's La Vie de Marianne: Text, Illustration, Film. (December 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lewis, Ann
• Other Names: Ionescu Christina guestEditor.; Lewis Ann guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Journal for eighteenth-century studies. Volume 39:Number 4(2016:Dec.)
• Page Start: 621
• Page End: 642
• Publication Date: 2016-12
• Subjects: Marivaux -- La Vie de Marianne -- Jacob van der Schley -- Henri Chevaux -- Thomas Stothard -- Raoul Serres -- Benoît Jacquot -- intermediality -- illustration -- film adaptation; Eighteenth century -- Periodicals; Europe -- Civilization -- 18th century -- Periodicals; Dix-huitième siècle -- Périodiques; Civilisation -- 18e siècle -- Périodiques; 940.25305
• DOI: 10.1111/1754-0208.12423
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1754-0194

Abstract

Abstract: Using the theoretical framework of 'intermediality', this article examines the ways in which Marivaux's novel La Vie de Marianne (1731‐42) has been pictured through time. It explores the relationship between text and image in various illustrations and in Benoît Jacquot's film adaptation Marianne (1995), focusing on episodes involving Marianne and her benefactor M. de Climal. Not only do these transpositions suggest complex forms of reception of Marivaux's text, but in their anticipation of and engagement with other media (theatre, painting, cinema) they also provide a richly suggestive interrogation of the conditions of theatricality and of what it means to become a 'spectacle'.