This volume brings together perspectives from multimodal stylistics and adaptation studies for a unified theoretical analysis of adaptations of the work of Alice Munro, demonstrating the affordances of the approach in furthering interdisciplinary research at the intersection of these fields.

Sabrina Francesconi is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Trento. Her research interests are tourism and heritage discourses, adaptation studies, Canadian studies, humour studies, multimodal analysis, multimodal genre analysis, multimodal stylistics, and systemic-functional stylistics.

Contents

0. Introduction

1. Adapting Clothes, Peaches and Stories
2. A Panoramic Shot over Adaptations
3. Dissemination of Preliminary Results
4. Volume Outline

Chapter 1. Adaptation(s)

1. Towards a Definition
2. The Limits and Risks of Fidelity
3. Intertextual Connections
4. Engaging Readers and Spectators
5. Adaptation as Process and as Product

Chapter 2. Multimodal Stylistic Analysis

1. Multimodal Stylistics
2. A Socio-semiotic Metafunctional Framework

1. Forms and Functions of Speech

1. Film Dialogues and the Voice-in
2. Screen/Story Boundaries and The Voice-over
2. Lyrics, Volume, Melodies
3. Words on the Screen
4. Size of Frame and Angles
5. Movements
6. Colour and Light Choices and Changes
7. Beyond the Shot

Chapter 3. Short Canadian Films

1. Boys and Girls

1. Gender and/as Space Representation
2. Thanks for the Ride

1. Film Music Framing Theme, Time and Tone
3. All about Connection

1. The Voice-over across Time

Chapter 4. Extended Canadian Works

1. Lives of Girls and Women

1. Del's Relationship with her Mother
2. There is a Change Coming
3. Writing Things down
4. Struggle for Cohesion
2. Edge of Madness

1. "A Wilderness Station" as Historiographic Metafiction
2. Patterns of Adaptation
3. Closing in on Madness
4. Changes in the Film Adaptation
3. Away from Her: Closeness and Distance

1. Fiona's Approach to her Illness
2. Grant as Husband, Caregiver, and Focaliser
3. The Canadian Culture

Chapter 5. International Screen Adaptations

1. Bending Fate in Hateship Loveship

1. Ankle Socks and Robust Shoes: Johanna
2. Writing Letters as Writing Life
2. Juliet Travelling to Spain

1. Almodóvar's Story of Adaptation(s)
2. Julieta's Letter-writing Scenes
3. Making Logical Connections Clear
3. From Canada to Canaan: An Iranian Journey

1. Criss-crossing Characters
2. A Disturbance, a Definite Picture, a Dream
3. From Unpainted Houses to the Promised Land

Concluding Remarks

Index