A Theory of AdaptationRenowned 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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User Review - Stevil2001 - LibraryThingThis is a book I've used a lot, but never actually read: I've cited bits of Hutcheon's work in papers I've written, and I've taught chapter 2, "What? (Forms)," multiple times. But I'd never actually ... Read full review
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| Title | A Theory of Adaptation |
| Author | Linda Hutcheon |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2006 |
| ISBN | 0415967945, 9780415967945 |
| Length | 232 pages |
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