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La transposición creativa de Volpone de J. Romain y M. Tourneur

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LiteratureLinguistics and Languagebusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjectFilm directorTransposition (telecommunications)Target audienceAfterlifeArtbusinessLanguage and Linguisticsmedia_common

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We are well aware that, no matter how valuable a text may be, its afterlife in other cultural and linguistic contexts is heavily dependent on the translator’s ability to meet the needs and expectations of its target audience. This is precisely what French screenwriter Jules Romains and film director Maurice Tourneur did when adapting Jonson’s Volpone [1940] for the new medium at the advent of sound films. It is the aim of this article to cast light on their creative transposition of Ben Jonson’s theatrical masterpiece. Keywords : Romains; Tourneur; Volpone ; creative transposition

https://doi.org/10.7203/qfilologia.21.9325