The ruins and the shadows of Manderley
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Adaptation, auteur, class, conscience, ethics, insider, memory, morals, outsider, ruins, shadowsAbstract
The ruins and the shadows of Manderley explores possible reciprocal interpretative relations between Daphne du Maurier’s novel Rebecca and Alfred Hitchcock’s cinematic version. Some of the relevant aspects considered here are: the treatment of the Derridean “ruins of memory” within the novel and within Hitchcock himself, the differentiation and the confrontation of the protagonist as outsider vis á vis the world of Manderley’s insiders, the iconic and symbolic values of the literary text and its filmic visualization, and the ethical positions implied by the choice or rejection of certain narrative devices in both works.
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