THE REPRESENTATION OF THE FEMININE AS SOURCE OF TRANSFICTIONALITY
THE REPRESENTATION OF THE FEMININE AS SOURCE OF TRANSFICTIONALITY

Summary/Abstract: As a concept specific to narratology, transfictionality represents the process which involves the migration of specific elements such as plot, context or character(s) from one fictional text to another. Following Doležel theory of “postmodern rewrites”, there could be distinguished three types of relations between these fictional worlds: expansion, modification and transposition. Applied on different artistic representations, this theory may be extended to all forms of transfictionality. It is the case of Vermeer’s painting “The Girl with a Pearl Earring”, which inspired Tracy Chevalier’s homonymous novel, which later was transposed into film. The study intends to analyse the manner in which the artistic technique of expansion links three distinct artistic fields – painting, literature and cinematography – using the representation of the feminine as the main source of transfictionality.

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