EXPROPRIATIONS. Literary Confidences between Life and Death

Rebeca Romero-Escrivá
,
Javier Alcoriza-Vento

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Published: 2019-11-07
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15581/003.32.34362
Keywords:
Expropriation, pedagogy of fragments, testamentary speech, death, ethics, film adaptation, film and literature

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Romero-Escrivá, R., & Alcoriza-Vento, J. (2019). EXPROPRIATIONS. Literary Confidences between Life and Death. Communication & Society, 32(4), 143-158. https://doi.org/10.15581/003.32.34362
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Abstract

This paper proposes the delimitation of a literary territory, or of certain speech acts as a form of expression specifically dissociated from religious and philosophical discourses, and the corresponding adaptation of such acts to the small and big screens. Expropriations, or confidences by characters on the verge of death, are used as a trope to convey this specific idea. They refer to a kind of speech that no longer bears the weight of worldly events, but that does not attempt to ignore the consequences of having been in the world. With this reconceptualization of the term, this article seeks to identify an ethics of the human intensity in three specific sequences: two stories for cinema and television –Visconti’s The Leopard, and the final episode of Brideshead Revisited– and André Gide’s “literary testament,” Et nunc manet in te.

Authors

Rebeca Romero-Escrivá
Universidad de Murcia.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0123-9481
Javier Alcoriza-Vento
IES Cañada de las Eras.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5285-6180

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