A Theory of Adaptation

A Theory of Adaptation
ISBN-10
1135267766
ISBN-13
9781135267766
Series
A Theory of Adaptation
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
232
Language
English
Published
2006-06-13
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Linda Hutcheon

Description

Renowned literary scholar Linda Hutcheon explores the ubiquity of adaptations in all their various media incarnations and challenges their constant critical denigration. Adaptation, Hutcheon argues, has always been a central mode of the story-telling imagination and deserves to be studied in all its breadth and range as both a process (of creation and reception) and a product unto its own. Persuasive and illuminating, A Theory of Adaptation is a bold rethinking of how adaptation works across all media and genres that may put an end to the age-old question of whether the book was better than the movie, or the opera, or the theme park.

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