Intersecting the aesthetics of austerity, crisis and empathy in a subversive intermedial narrative: Stone Soup (2014), by Cas Willing and Paula
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https://doi.org/10.34630/e-rei.vi13.6401Keywords:
art and (traditional) literature, intermediality, empathy, precarity, Paula RegoAbstract
This article analyses how the aesthetics (and themes) of austerity, personal and collective crises and empathy intersect in the intermedial narrative Stone Soup (2014) published by Cas Willing and Paula Rego during the period of austerity in Great Britain and Portugal. It also delas with how this work intersemiotically translates and subverts the traditional tale of the stone soup, placing a young woman initially, and without any kind of agency, at the centre of the action.
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