Adaptation and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9781032538815 / Twarda / 2023 / 232 str.

Opis

This collection focuses on recent adaptations that put hybridity, transtextuality, and transmediality at play. It reframes adaptation in terms "world-building," which accurately captures the complexity and multidirectionality of contemporary scattered practices of adaptation leading to the production of hybrid transtextualities

Spis treści

Introduction: Hybrid Zones of Transtextual World-Building: Towards the Mezzaterra of Adaptation

Part I: Aesthetics and/as Politics in Hybrid Transtextual Adaptation

Chapter 1 - Macbeth, Macbeth: Beyond Adaptation, Towards Creative Critical Writing

Chapter 2 - Joycean Biographics as Hybrid Transmedia Adaptations: World-Building through Biographical Comics

Chapter 3 - Lost at Sea: Caroline Bergvall's Mapping of Early Medieval and Contemporary Maritime Migration

Part II: Repurposing "Classics"

Chapter 4 - Appropriating Biography: The Hybrid ‘Face’ of Shakespeare in Branagh’s All is True

Chapter 5 - Advertising as Adaptation: The Case of Romeo and Juliet

Chapter 6 - Re-Activating the Revenge Drama in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Part III: East-West Adaptation Flows

Chapter 7 - ‘Cobra Kai never dies’: Rebooting the Karate Kid Franchise for a 21st century YouTube and Netflix Audience

Chapter 8 - Hybrid Transtextualities: Triangulating Tang Xianzu’s Peony Pavilion, Traditional Chinese Kunqu Theatre, and Stan Lai’s Nightwalk in the Chinese Garden

Chapter 9 - Medial Transposition and Imitation in The Handmaiden

Chapter 10 - Transmedial Melodies: Music in Salman Rushdie’s Novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Index　

　

　　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

O autorze

Eva C. Karpinski is Associate Professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada, where she teaches feminist theory, life writing, and translation studies. She has published over 40 articles and book chapters. She is the author of Borrowed Tongues: Life Writing, Migration, and Translation and co-author of Life Writing Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas and, most recently, Translation, Semiotics, and Feminism: Selected Writings of Barbara Godard (Routledge 2022). She is Associate Editor of the journal a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.

Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak is Professor of English Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Wrocław, Poland, where she teaches English literature and cultural and adaptation studies. She has published over 50 articles and book chapters. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Controversy Over Baroque, Visual Seen and Unseen: Insights into Tom Stoppard’s Art, From Concept-City to City Experience: A Study in Urban Drama (2013). She guest co-edited (with Jacek Fabiszak) a special issue of Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance (vol. 14, no. 1, 2021) and has been editor-in-chief of Anglica Wratislaviensia (Poland) since 2013.