Reading and Writing on Screen: Cinematic Adaptations of McEwan's<i>Atonement</i>and Cunningham's<i>The Hours</i>

Schiff, James

doi:10.1080/00111619.2012.641902

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“…The reasons why she married Dan is because of her responsibility as Dan has fought for the country in World War II and saved the world. Laura's difficulties in getting through her life attracts the readers' sympathy as Cunningham uses indirect internal monologue (Schiff, 2012). One of those he perfectly shows is Laura's emotional process and thoughts towards the events when she is unconfident in doing her domestic tasks as a housewife as well as a mother.…”

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Ihab Hassan Postmodernism’s Indeterminacy and Irony:laura Brown’s Inner Conflict in the Hours

Setyaningrum

2020

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Virginia Woolf is one of the modernist writers who write Mrs. Dalloway for which Michael Cunningham has taken Virginia’s life story into his novel, The Hours that characterized Laura Brown who reads Mrs. Dalloway. Cunningham’s literary work which foregrounds the uncertainty of sexual orientation, confusion, and difficulty of identity is suitable with postmodernism’s conventions and is valid in both Woolf's and Cunningham's novels. There have been studies conducted by the scholars in terms of various technical aspects, such as narrative, design, and structure. The other topics comprise the equivalence of characters, the parallelism of scenes, and the borrowing of themes and symbolism, in order to demonstrate the effects of the adaptation process. This paper focuses on Laura Brown’s inner conflicts which are connected to postmodernism features. From the quotations in the novel, this paper showcases the novel’s analysis based on Ihab Hassan’s theory of postmodernism’s indeterminacy and irony. It is found that Laura Brown’s inner conflicts are shown from her efforts of being a good wife for Dan. She is trying hard to answer her own question whether or not she loves her husband. Ironically, the perfect status of being a wife of a soldier who takes part in winning the World War II, a woman with a perfect family, as well as a woman living a good life, do not make her happy. Mrs. Dalloway has inspired her to find her true happiness, her former self that has disappeared.

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Ihab Hassan Postmodernism’s Indeterminacy and Irony:laura Brown’s Inner Conflict in the Hours

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Mrs. Brown's The Hours: Michael Cunningham's Represented Mrs. Dalloway

KimHeesun¹

2013

englishamericanculturalstudies

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"The Hours", de Stephen Daldry: tramas y tiempo narrativo = "The Hours", by Stephen Daldry: plots and narrative time

Cánovas¹

2016

Signa: Revista De La Asociación Española De Semiótica

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Resumen: La película The Hours, adaptación del libro del mismo título -que a su vez es una transposición de la novela Mrs. Dalloway, de Virginia Woolf-, presenta una estructura narrativa caracterizada por la sucesión alternada de episodios que corresponden a tres tramas centrales (con una cuarta en el prólogo y epílogo). Las tramas centrales recrean sendos días en las vidas de tres mujeres. La cohesión narrativa se ve reforzada por la presencia de motivos comunes entre las tramas y el tratamiento del tiempo, el cual refleja la estructura de la narración y da prominencia a los ejes temáticos del film. Abstract:The film The Hours, adapted from the book with the same title -which in turn is a transposition of the novel Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf -has a narrative structure of alternating episodes that correspond to three main plots (together with a fourth plot in the prologue and epilogue). Each of the main plots reflect a day in the life of three women. Shared motifs among the plots and the treatment of time -which follows the narrative structure of the stories, giving additional prominence to the main themes of the film -create a strong sense of cohesion.Palabras clave: The Hours. Stephen Daldry. Estructura narrativa. Tiempo narrativo. Trama.

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Reading and Writing on Screen: Cinematic Adaptations of McEwan'sAtonementand Cunningham'sThe Hours

Cited by 3 publications

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Ihab Hassan Postmodernism’s Indeterminacy and Irony:laura Brown’s Inner Conflict in the Hours

Ihab Hassan Postmodernism’s Indeterminacy and Irony:laura Brown’s Inner Conflict in the Hours

Mrs. Brown's The Hours: Michael Cunningham's Represented Mrs. Dalloway

"The Hours", de Stephen Daldry: tramas y tiempo narrativo = "The Hours", by Stephen Daldry: plots and narrative time

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