Adaptation and Appropriation (The New Critical Idiom)
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (513 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415311721 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Ranging across genres and harnessing concepts from fields as diverse as musicology and the natural sciences, this volume brings clarity to the complex debates around adaptation and appropriation, offering a much-needed resource for those studying literature, film or culture.. From the apparently simple adaptation of a text into film, theatre or a new literary work, to the more complex appropriation of style or meaning, it is arguable that all texts are somehow connected to a network of existing texts and art forms. Adaptation and Appropriation explores:multiple definitions and practices of adaptation and appropriationthe cultural and aesthetic politics behind the impulse to adapt diverse ways in which contemporary literature and film adapt, revise and reimagine other works of art the impact on adaptation and appropriation of theoretical movements, including structuralism, post-structuralism, postcolonialism, postmodernism, feminism and gender studies the appropriation across time and across cultures of specific canonical texts, but also of literary archetypes such as myth or fairy tale
Easily the most informative and wide-ranging series of its kind, so packed with bright ideas that it has become and indispensable resource for students of literature.–Terry Eagleton, University of Manchester, UKThe New Critical Idiom is a constant resource, essential reading for all students.–Tom Paulin, University of Oxford, UK
"Excellent" according to Pavic. I rarely write book reviews on Amazon, but I just wanted to thank Julie Sanders for her interesting, very logical, extremely well-documented and organized work. It helped me a lot and opened many possibilities of association. I also have to mention that I read it in comparison with Linda Hutcheon's book on the same topic, and I found it much more helpful.. Page-turner--believe it or not This scholarly work is one in a series entitled the `New Critical Idiom' and merits review as much for its individuality as for the clarifying importance to the field of literary theory made by this series as a whole. I will write this review assuming that you wouldn't go through the trouble of reading it unless you had an academic or otherwise theoretical interest in the subject.Julie Sanders has, even by the already high standards of this series, taken a particularly well-structured approach to her topic. The first chapters take time to look at the main ideas and ass. T C said A useful textbook. The New Critical Idiom series make for great companions to courses. Sanders' Adaptation and Appropriation is a compact, clear, usable textbook that cuts through the muddy water of critical debates on exactly what those two terms (and a host of other related terms) mean.
Julie Sanders is Professor of English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her previous publications include Novel Shakespeares (2001), which examines contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare by women novelists.