Adaptation and Beyond: Hybrid Transtextualities (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

Synopsis

This interdisciplinary collection focuses on recent adaptations, both experimental and popular, that put hybridity, transtextuality, and transmediality at play. It reframes adaptation in terms of the transmedia concept of "world-building," which accurately captures the complexity and multidirectionality of contemporary scattered and ubiquitous practices of adaptation. The Editors argue that the process of moving stories or their elements across different media platforms and repurposing them for new uses results in the production of hybrid transtextualities. The book demonstrate how hybrid textualities augment narrative and literary forms as goals of their world-building, finding unexpected sites of cross-pollination, expansion, and appropriation in spoken-word and dance performance, (auto)biographical comics, advertising, Chinese Kun opera, and popular song lyrics. This yoking of hybridity and transmediality yields not only diversified and often commercialized aesthetic forms but also enables the emergence a unique cultural space in-between, a mezzaterra capable of addressing current political issues and mobilizing broader audiences

Copyright:

2023

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781000956276

Related ISBNs:

9781032538815, 9781032565040, 9781003435839

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

09/28/23

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Eva C. Karpinski and Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak, individual chapters, the contributors

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Eva C. Karpinski

Edited by:

Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak