Multi-Mediated Dostoevsky: Transposing Novels into Opera, Film, and Drama - Couverture rigide

Burry, Alexander

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0810127156 ISBN 13 : 9780810127159

Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Since their publication, the works of Dostoevsky have provided rich fodder for adaptations to opera, film, and drama. While Dostoevsky gave his blessing to the idea of adapting his work to other forms, he believed that "each art form corresponds to a series of poetic thoughts, so that one idea cannot be expressed in another non-corresponding form." In Multi-Mediated Dostoevsky, Alexander Burry argues that twentieth-century adaptations (which he calls "transpositions") of four of Dostoevsky's works--Sergei Prokofiev's opera The Gambler, Leos Janacek's opera From the Dead House, Akira Kurosawa's film The Idiot, and Adrzej Wajda's drama The Devils--follow Dostoevsky's precept by bringing to light underdeveloped or unappreciated aspects of Dostoevsky's texts rather than by slavishly attempting to recreate their sources. Burry's interdisciplinary approach gives his study broad appeal to scholars as well as to students of Russian, comparative literature, music, film, drama, and cultural studies.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Alexander Burry is an assistant professor of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures at the Ohio State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Northwestern University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0810127156
• ISBN 13: 9780810127159
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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