TY - BOOK AU - Elliott,K. TI - Theorizing adaptation SN - 9780197511213 U1 - 808 21 PY - 2020/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Literature KW - Adaptations KW - History and criticism KW - Film adaptations KW - Literary Theory and Cultural Studies N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://academic.oup.com/book/36670 ER -