JOURNEYS ACROSS TERRITORIES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE LITERARY AND CINEMATIC TEXTS OF EAT, PRAY, LOVE

Film and novel are two different forms of art which are closely connected to each other. Both film and novel can be seen as a form of representational arts which depends on established codes and conventions of language. The study attempts a comparative analysis of the memoir and the movie, Eat, Pray, Love. It focuses on the features of the book and the film, various changes that has been made when the memoir was adapted, the journey of the protagonist and the cultural interventions that are portrayed in the memoir as well as the film.