Beyond Adaptation

Beyond Adaptation
Author: Phyllis Frus
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2010-03-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0786455780

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Some film and novel revisions go so far beyond adaptation that they demand a new designation. This critical collection explores movies, plays, essays, comics and video games that supersede adaptation to radically transform their original sources. Fifteen essays investigate a variety of texts that rework everything from literary classics to popular children's books, demonstrating how these new, stand-alone creations critically engage their sources and contexts. Particular attention is paid to parody, intertextuality, and fairy-tale transformations in the examination of these works, which occupy a unique narrative and creative space.