Reading with My Mother

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-52
Author(s):  
Caryn E. Medved
Keyword(s):  
Edith Wharton ◽  
Physical Object ◽  
Title Page ◽  
Presence And Absence ◽  
The Age Of Innocence

I gingerly fold open the browned and stained cover of my mother's 1962 edition of The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. The title page rests despondently unattached. Dementia first stole my mother's ability to read and then slowly took her life. I cannot ask her about the annotations she made throughout this text. Still, I can read with my mother through its inscribed pencil-written notes. An object blurring the borders between happiness and suffering, presence and absence. In this essay, I contemplate how the physical object of a book and embedded traces of another's reading evoke emotions, memories, and selves.

An Ironic Overlay: The Use of Voice-Over Narration in The Age of Innocence, by Martin Scorsese

Adaptation ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-175
Author(s):  
Cynthia Beatrice Costa
Keyword(s):  
Edith Wharton ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Inside Information ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
Martin Scorsese ◽  
The Age Of Innocence ◽  
Degree Of Association ◽  
The Voice

Abstract Often praised for its cinematic artistry and faithfulness to the homonymous novel (Edith Wharton, 1920), The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993) is sometimes seen, however, as a reminder of the perils of voice-over narration in fiction films (Herman). By examining its use in relation to notions of novel adaptation (Whelehan; Leitch) and approaching irony in the film as a rhetorical device (Booth; Hutcheon; MacDowell), this article counterpoints the opinion (Travers; Cahir) that the voice-over narration might have decreased the dramatic potency of Scorsese’s work. In doing so, two main hypotheses emerged: (1) displaying a voice that purposefully invokes the novel’s author might have enhanced the degree of association between adaptation and source material, and (2) in deepening the viewers’ understanding of certain scenes by revealing inside information, the voice-over adds an ironic overlay to the film.

Radiant Traces

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 418-426
Author(s):  
Eden Redmond
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Physical Object ◽  
Photographic Essay ◽  
Presence And Absence

Photography is a referent medium. While a photograph is a physical object with its own ontology, the image depicted references a moment that has already ended. The mobility of a photograph relies on the divide between presence and absence, the material and the ephemeral. This photographic essay considers the tensions and parallels of such divides in photographing and photographs of sadhus, holy men who wander throughout East Asia. Sadhus relinquish worldly possessions in the name of spiritual pursuits, surviving on whatever the divine provides. The following images illustrate both their radiant spiritual presence, and the trace of a material boundedness.

scholarly journals "WICKED OLD SOCIETIES": A PRESENÇA FRANCESA EM THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, DE EDITH WHARTON

Organon ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (65) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Rodrigo De Oliveira Lemos
Keyword(s):  
Gilded Age ◽  
Edith Wharton ◽  
The Age Of Innocence

The Age of Innocence (1920), de Edith Wharton, volta-se com ironia ao estranhamento entre o mundo anglo-saxônico e a França durante o século XIX. Para tanto, o romance se concentra na alta-sociedade nova-iorquina durante a Gilded Age (circa 1870- 1900). Nessa história de um amor frustrado entre o rico e refinado Newland Archer e a americana Ellen Olenska, de volta aos Estados Unidos após abandonar seu marido na Europa, oferece-se um contraste entre a vitalidade artístico-literária do continente europeu, sobretudo de Paris, e a morosidade da vida intelectual na América de então. Igualmente, exploram-se os modos distintos de sociabilidade entre americanos e europeus, principalmente no que toca à convivência entre os sexos. Essas observações, além de comporem o pano de fundo da história, pesam no próprio desenrolar das relações entre os dois protagonistas e na maneira como ambos se encontram e se perdem.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Edith Wharton; The Age of Innocence; Cultura francesa.

scholarly journals VIEWS ON THE MANIFESTATION OF LOCAL WISDOM (CASE: KAMPUNG NAGA, WEST JAVA)

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Agus Saladin ◽  
Agus Budi Purnomo ◽  
Sri Tundono
Keyword(s):  
Field Survey ◽  
Vernacular Architecture ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Physical Object ◽  
Title Page ◽  
West Java ◽  
Modern Thought ◽  
Physical Elements ◽  
Written Materials ◽  
Modern Era

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>The physical object of architecture is a manifestation of thoughtful concept of the architect. Philosophically, in vernacular architecture, the concept of thoughts is being revealed in the form of local wisdom. Kampung Naga, as one of the vernacular villages in West Java, maintains its traditional culture although the inhabitants have undergone modern thought. The modern era has developed immensely which could affect the decline in preserving the local wisdom. To anticipate the decline, it is necessary to make an effort to formulate the local wisdom which is still existed. This paper aims to explain the results of research in Kampung Naga which focusing on physical elements and accommodating the results of previous research concerning on local wisdom. Data and information as written materials were obtained through field survey, literature review, and previous research studies. The results of the study show that local wisdom in Kampung Naga has an effect on the aspects of life in terms of social interaction, land law, physical building ideas and its spatial order. The paper will be ended with the diagrammatic conceptual model of the aspects of the manifestation of local wisdom in Kampung Naga. </span></p><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>Keywords: </span><span>manifestation, local wisdom, Kampung Naga </span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>

scholarly journals Broken Marriage in Aristocratic Societies in Edith Wharton’s Selected Novels

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 192-196
Author(s):  
Elaheh Soofastaei ◽  
Sayyed Ali Mirenayat
Keyword(s):  
Edith Wharton ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Main Concept ◽  
The West ◽  
Bourgeois Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Love Marriage ◽  
The Age Of Innocence ◽  
The House Of Mirth

Family is a bridge between individual and society. In my paper, I will survey broken marriage and individual dissatisfaction in two novels by Edith Wharton. The novels in question are The House of Mirth (1905) and The Age of Innocence (1920). Edith Wharton portrays her concern by the conflict between the individuals and the social groups which they live in there. Her treatment of the family is always in association with the bourgeois society, with the ambitious stock brokers from the west. This conflict can be seen in their attitudes to love, marriage, divorce, and remarriage. In the novels, Marriage, as an indissoluble matter and even an invariable failure, is main concept and sex outside marriage is meaningless. Wharton shows divorce in aristocratic societies in an old-fashioned lifestyle.

scholarly journals A Compromise and Resist World Feminism Analysis of the Age of Innocnece

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Hongyan Yang
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Edith Wharton ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
The Age Of Innocence ◽  
Male Discourse ◽  
Special Strategy

<p>Edith Wharton (1862-1937), a Pulitzer Prize winner, is a distinguished female novelist at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her work <em>The Age of Innocence</em> contributes much to the formation of a female literary tradition. Wharton’s subversion of male discourse can be well traced in her novel <em>The Age of Innocence</em>. However, Wharton does not become a destroyer of her age due to the limitation of her time; instead, she shows an open submission and hidden resistance to the patriarchal system.</p><p>This thesis aims to analyze causes of Wharton’s duplicitous voice by the means of <em>The Age of Innocence</em> textual analysis in order to reveal her special strategy of text hidden behind this contradictory attitude.</p>

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