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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781677303321

Autore

Carroll Rachel

Titolo

Adaptation in Contemporary Culture [[electronic resource] ] : Textual Infidelities

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2009

ISBN

1-283-27219-9

9786613272195

1-4411-8121-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

809

Soggetti

Film adaptations -- History and criticism

Literature -- Adaptations

Mass media and literature

Motion pictures and literature

Literature - Adaptations

Film adaptations - History and criticism

Languages & Literatures

Literature - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: Textual Infidelities; PART I: Remaking Fidelity; PART II: After-images; PART III: Reproducing the Past; PART IV: Afterlives; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Adaptation in Contemporary Culture: Textual Infidelities seeks to reconfigure the ways in which adaptation is conceptualised by considering adaptation within an extended range of generic, critical and theoretical contexts. This collection explores literary, film, television and other visual texts both as origins and adaptations and offers new insights into the construction of genres, canons and classics. Chapters investigate both classic and contemporary texts by British and American authors, from Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Dickens to Bret Easton Ellis, P.D James and Sarah Waters