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A Theory Of Adaptation
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A Theory Of Adaptation Hardcover - 2006

by Linda Hutcheon


From the publisher

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.

Details

  • Title A Theory Of Adaptation
  • Author Linda Hutcheon
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 232
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2006-06
  • ISBN 9780415967945

About the author

Linda Hutcheon is Distinguished University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. Her many books include A Poetics of Postmodernism, The Politics of Postmodernism, Irony's Edge, and, most recently, Opera: Desire Disease, Death, which she co-wrote with her husband, Michael Hutcheon.