The New York Times called this one of the three collaborators' best films as well as one of the best adaptations of a major literary work ever to come onto the screen.
qtd. in
Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams, 1991.
137
This film...
Reception
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
RPJ
was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, 1976, the Neil Gunn International Fellowship in earlier 1979, a MacArthur Foundation Grant in 1983, and a CBE in 1998.
Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan, 1989.
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Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams, 1991.
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Gates, Anita. “Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Screenwriter, Dies at 85”. The New York Times, 3 Apr. 2013.
She attracted less critical attention in...
Textual Features
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Critic Laurie Sucher
remarks that many of these stories rework the Gothic theme, that is, the sexualisation of villainy and victimisation.
Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan, 1989.
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The experience in the title piece makes up a painful sequence. Another unnamed...
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Heat and Dust presents a double plot: one set in the present, told in first-person narrative and in journals, and one set in 1923 (the April of which year saw an outbreak of Muslim-Hindu violence...
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
In the novel's present tense, Natasha goes to work for Leo at the Academy (in a gothic-style mansion in the Hudson River Valley) at a time when her foster-brother Mark has established on the...
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The narrator, Harriet Wishwell (whose name sounds like something out of Restoration comedy), has a dominant twin brother, Michael, who is gay; Laurie Sucher
sees this as a culmination in a sequence of Jhabvala heroines...
Textual Production
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
RPJ
declined, however, to write the screenplay for the next Merchant-Ivory film, released the following year, from Forster
's homosexual novel Maurice, unpublished during his lifetime. Laurie Sucher
says RPJ
felt this novel to...
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Texts
Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan, 1989.