Engagements With Adaptation

This book invites students to consider adaptations on their own terms and to engage with the questions they raise about literary canons; the media industry; the relations between media; national, political, and cultural identities; and the ways in which contemporary media has complicated the roles of producers and consumers of texts.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Aesthetic Engagements: Adaptation as Copy
2. Intertextual Engagements: Adaptation as Process
3. Industrial Engagements: Adaptation as Product
4. Biological Engagements: Adaptation as Evolution
5. Sociological Engagements: Adaptation as Border Crossing
6. Participatory Engagements: Adaptation as Play
Index

About the author

Thomas Leitch holds the Unidel Andrew B. Kirkpatrick, Jr. Chair in Writing at the University of Delaware, USA. His most recent publications include The Scandal of Adaptation (2023) and The History of American Literature on Film (2019).

Summary

This book invites students to consider adaptations on their own terms and to engage with the questions they raise about literary canons; the media industry; the relations between media; national, political, and cultural identities; and the ways in which contemporary media has complicated the roles of producers and consumers of texts.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Leitch
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032572321
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3257232-1
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Routledge Engagements with Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; History, Media Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Theatre Studies, Humanities, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, FICTION / Adaptations & Pastiche, Literary studies: plays and playwrights