Teaching Literary Theory Using Film Adaptations Book

Foreword 1

Preface 7

Introduction 9

Part I Teaching Literary Theory: Pairing Literary Criticism with Film Adaptations

1 Psychoanalytic Criticism 22

The Awakening Kate Chopin

The End of August (1982) and Grand Isle (1992)

2 Cultural Criticism 64

A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

3 Thematic Criticism 100

"Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" William Wordsworth

Splendor in the Grass (1961)

Part II Teaching Literary and Adaptation Theory

4 Classifying Adaptations Through Image Patterns 146

Conclusion 189

Bibliography 197

Index 207