Of Art, Codes, and Transcoding: Revisiting Intersemiotic Conversations in The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920) and Martin Scorsese (1993)

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Sammarcelli
Keyword(s):  
Edith Wharton ◽  
Martin Scorsese ◽  
The Age Of Innocence

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.

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.

Holding onto Moments in The Age of Innocence

Film Studies ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
Steven Peacock
Keyword(s):  
Ordinary Language ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Detailed Consideration ◽  
Martin Scorsese ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Shared Time ◽  
The Age Of Innocence

This article offers an alternative to the predominant and pervasive theoretical approaches to discussing time in film. It adheres to ordinary language, and moves away from a ‘mapping’ of theoretical models or contextual analysis to concentrate on a films specifics. It considers the particular handling of time in a particular film: The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993). Fixing on specific points of style, the article examines the interplay of time and gesture, and the editing techniques of ellipses and dissolves. Both the article and the film hold their attention on the intricacy and intimacy afforded by moments, as they pass. Both explore how the intensity of a lovers relationship over decades is expressed in fleeting passages of shared time. In doing so, the article advances a vocabulary of criticism to match the rhetoric of the film, to appreciate the works handling of time. Detailed consideration of this achievement allows for a greater understanding of the designs and possibilities of time in cinema.

scholarly journals Dialogue in the Arts: Interaction of Languages of Painting and Cinema

2015 ◽  
pp. 30-34
Author(s):  
Maria V. Tarasova
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Art Nouveau ◽  
Single Source ◽  
Martin Scorsese ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Age Of Innocence

Explores the object­language laws in visual arts and the interrelation of art signs that are employed in painting and cinematography. The author addresses the “Age of Innocence” by Martin Scorsese and analyses the cinema art speech as determined by the object­language of the painting styles, namely the impressionism, pointillism, Art Nouveau, etc. The artistic culture is described as a dialogue space where languages of various types of arts reveal their origin from a single source and make their capacity of general understanding messages produced in culture obvious.

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 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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