Publication: EXPROPRIATIONS. Literary Confidences between Life and Death
Authors
Romero Escrivá, Rebeca ; Alcoriza Vento, Javier
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Universidad de Navarra
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https://doi.org/10.15581/003.32.34362
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© 2019, Communication & Society. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. This document is the Published version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Communication & Society. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.15581/003.32.34362
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.
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Communication & Society, 32(4), 143-158
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