Responding to Modern Sensibilities: Emma and Edvard Entangled

• Authors: Patricia G. Berman
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article is an edited version of the response paper offered at the conclusion of the symposium, Modern Sensibilities. It ties together themes from the symposium papers, as well as ideas prompted by Mieke Bal’s exhibition, Emma & Edvard: Love in the Time of Loneliness, and her accompanying book, Emma and Edvard Looking Sideways: Loneliness and the Cinematic. It focuses on the anachronistic entanglements among Flaubert’s “Emma,” Munch’s motifs, Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker’s Madame B, the Munch Museum’s architecture and exhibition scenography, and the exhibition viewer.

Keywords

EN

Munch; Bovary; desire; entanglement

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 145-158

Dates

published

2017-10-16

Contributors

author

Patricia G. Berman

• Wellesley College

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/texmat-2017-0008