Elliott, K., 1957-
Theorizing adaptation / [electronic resource] by Kamilla Elliott. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2020. - e-book contains 374 pages
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Front Matter
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
ExpandIntroduction: The Problem of Theorizing Adaptation
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Part I Theorizing Adaptation
Kamilla Elliott
Expand1 Histories of Theorizing Adaptation
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Expand2 Theorizing Adaptation in the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
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Expand3 Theorizing Adaptation in the Twentieth Century
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Expand4 Theorizing Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century
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Part II Adapting Theorization
Kamilla Elliott
Section I Retheorizing Theorization: Introduction
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Expand5 Redefining Definitions
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Expand6 Resetting Taxonomies
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Expand7 Rethinking Theoretical Principles
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Section II Refiguring Theorization: Introduction
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Expand8 The Rhetoric of Theorizing Adaptation
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Expand9 Refiguring Adaptation Studies
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Conclusion: Adaptation and Theorization
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End Matter
ExpandNotes
Bibliography
Index
Abstract
Asking why adaptation has been seen as more problematic to theorize than other humanities subjects, and why it has been more theoretically problematic in the humanities than in the sciences and social sciences, Theorizing Adaptation seeks to both explicate and redress “the problem of theorizing adaptation” through a metacritical history of theorizing adaptation from the late sixteenth century to the present, a metatheoretical theory of the relationship between theorization and adaptation in the humanities, and analysis of and experimentation with the rhetoric of theorizing adaptation. Adaptation was not always the bad theoretical object that it increasingly became from the late eighteenth century: in earlier centuries, adaptation was celebrated and valued as a means of aesthetic and cultural progress. Tracing the falling fortunes of adaptation under humanities theorization, the history nevertheless locates dissenting voices valorizing adaptation in every period. Adaptation studies can learn from history not only how to theorize adaptation more positively, but also to consider “the problem of theorization” for adaptation. The metatheoretical section finds that theorization and adaptation are rival, overlapping, inimical processes, each seeking to remake culture—and each other—in their images. It is not simply the case that adaptation has to adapt to theorization: rather, theorization needs to adapt to and through adaptation. The final section attends to the rhetoric of theorizing adaptation, analyzing how tiny pieces of rhetoric have constructed adaptation’s relationship to theorization, and turning to figurative rhetoric, or figuration, as a third process that can mediate between adaptation and theorization and refigure their relationship.
9780197511213 GBP265.21
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197511176.001.0001 DOI:
Literature--Adaptations--History and criticism.
Film adaptations--History and criticism.
Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
808 / ELL/T
Theorizing adaptation / [electronic resource] by Kamilla Elliott. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2020. - e-book contains 374 pages
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Front Matter
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
ExpandIntroduction: The Problem of Theorizing Adaptation
View chapter
Part I Theorizing Adaptation
Kamilla Elliott
Expand1 Histories of Theorizing Adaptation
View chapter
Expand2 Theorizing Adaptation in the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
View chapter
Expand3 Theorizing Adaptation in the Twentieth Century
View chapter
Expand4 Theorizing Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century
View chapter
Part II Adapting Theorization
Kamilla Elliott
Section I Retheorizing Theorization: Introduction
View part front matter
Expand5 Redefining Definitions
View chapter
Expand6 Resetting Taxonomies
View chapter
Expand7 Rethinking Theoretical Principles
View chapter
Section II Refiguring Theorization: Introduction
View part front matter
Expand8 The Rhetoric of Theorizing Adaptation
View chapter
Expand9 Refiguring Adaptation Studies
View chapter
Conclusion: Adaptation and Theorization
View chapter
End Matter
ExpandNotes
Bibliography
Index
Abstract
Asking why adaptation has been seen as more problematic to theorize than other humanities subjects, and why it has been more theoretically problematic in the humanities than in the sciences and social sciences, Theorizing Adaptation seeks to both explicate and redress “the problem of theorizing adaptation” through a metacritical history of theorizing adaptation from the late sixteenth century to the present, a metatheoretical theory of the relationship between theorization and adaptation in the humanities, and analysis of and experimentation with the rhetoric of theorizing adaptation. Adaptation was not always the bad theoretical object that it increasingly became from the late eighteenth century: in earlier centuries, adaptation was celebrated and valued as a means of aesthetic and cultural progress. Tracing the falling fortunes of adaptation under humanities theorization, the history nevertheless locates dissenting voices valorizing adaptation in every period. Adaptation studies can learn from history not only how to theorize adaptation more positively, but also to consider “the problem of theorization” for adaptation. The metatheoretical section finds that theorization and adaptation are rival, overlapping, inimical processes, each seeking to remake culture—and each other—in their images. It is not simply the case that adaptation has to adapt to theorization: rather, theorization needs to adapt to and through adaptation. The final section attends to the rhetoric of theorizing adaptation, analyzing how tiny pieces of rhetoric have constructed adaptation’s relationship to theorization, and turning to figurative rhetoric, or figuration, as a third process that can mediate between adaptation and theorization and refigure their relationship.
9780197511213 GBP265.21
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197511176.001.0001 DOI:
Literature--Adaptations--History and criticism.
Film adaptations--History and criticism.
Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
808 / ELL/T
