Linda Hutcheon

Broschiertes Buch

A Theory of Adaptation

Beschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780415967952
• ISBN-10: 0415967953
• Artikelnr.: 21099201

Rezensionen

The reviewers were asked if advances in digital media should be covered, and all agreed that they should. Opinions of the current edition are as follows.

'Hutcheon's book is intelligent and accessible, two features that, unfortunately, rarely come together in academic writing.' - Professor Stephannie Gearhart, Bowling Green State University, US

'Overall I think the book offers an excellent look at the tremendously broad sweep of adaption as it encompasses myriad media.' - Professor David Marshall, California State University San Bernardino, US

'Hutcheon is a terrific theorist and students respond well to the assertive, agenda-shaping approach of this textbook.' - Professor Julie Sanders, University of Nottingham, UK

'The book offers a strong introduction to the study of adaptations.' - Dr David Watson, Uppsala University, Sweden

'The book is good - very solid.' - Dr Joyce Goggin, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands