Introduction

Abstract

What precipitated the writing of these essays was a suggestion from one of my graduate students, who also suggested the name of the course: “Women in Love and Other Emotional States.” I had previously taught a film adaptation course using works by Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Lawrence, Fuentes, and Böll, but hadn’t been looking at the texts from the perspective of a male’s view of women, but purely from the point of view of a screenwriter adapting a literary text to the screen. What does a writer include? Omit? Alter, arrange, or minimize? But I thought the suggestion engaging enough to re-read those texts from that point of view; namely, how do the narrators of male authors perceive women.