| Description |
1 online resource (165 pages) |
| Series |
The New Critical Idiom |
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New critical idiom.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Going on (and on); Part I: Defining terms; 1. What is adaptation?; 2. What is appropriation?; Embedded texts and interplay; Sustained appropriation: homage, plagiarism and travelling tales; Variations on a theme; Part II: Literary archetypes; 3. 'Here's a strange alteration': Shakespearean appropriations; Grafting, or reading between the lines; 4. 'It's a very old story': Myth and metamorphosis; Modern metamorphoses; Orphic narratives |
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5. 'Other versions' of fairy tale and folklorePart III: Alternative perspectives; 6. Constructing alternative points of view; Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea: 'Just another adaptation'?; J.M. Coetzee's Foe and the master-text; Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood: interwoven narratives and circulatory systems; Michael Cunningham's The Hours: riffing on Mrs Dalloway; 7. 'We "other Victorians"': Or, rethinking the nineteenth century; 'At the time of my story'; Coming out of the shadows: Peter Carey's Jack Maggs; Watching the detective: the afterlives of Sherlock Holmes |
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8. Stretching history: Or, appropriating the facts9. Customized narratives: Copyright and the work of art in the age of technological reproducability; Afterword: Different versions; Glossary; Bibliography; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Literature -- Adaptations
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Literature
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| Genre/Form |
Adaptations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317572206 |
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1317572203 |
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