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Literature, Theatre, Cinema: “Comparisons Are Odious”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Tadeusz Kowzan
Tadeusz Kowzan*
Affiliation:
Université de Caen
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Extract

It is a truism that the relationships between literature and visual entertainment are multiple, complex and variable, especially if we consider literature in the broad sense and keep in mind the enormous variety in the forms of spectacle. Actually, several dangers lie in wait for the one who, on the comparative level, deals with the problem of the relationships between a literary work and a work intended to be viewed as visual entertainment.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 30 , Issue 120 , December 1982 , pp. 58 - 74
Copyright
Copyright © 1982 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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References

1 We consider "substance" in the acceptance given by André Lalande: "whatever there is of permanence in things that change, insomuch as this permanent is considered as a subject that is modified by change while remaining ‘the same,' and in serving as common support to its successive qualities," Vocabulaire technique et critique de la philosophie, 8th edition, Paris, PUF, 1960, p. 1048.

2 Tadeusz Kowzan, "Jeu scénique comme système de signes codifiés et codés (XVI-XX siècle)," to appear in Actes du 2e Congrès de l'Association Internationale de Sémiotique, Vienna, July 2-6, 1979.

3 Le structuralisme, second edition, Paris, PUF 1968, p. 6.