Theorizing adaptation / Kamilla Elliott.
2020
PN171.A33 E44 2020
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Title
Theorizing adaptation / Kamilla Elliott.
ISBN
9780197511213 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (376 pages).
Call Number
PN171.A33 E44 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
808
Summary
Asking why adaptation has been seen as more problematic to theorise 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 theorising adaptation" through a metacritical history of theorising adaptation from the late sixteenth century to the present, a metatheoretical theory of the relationship between theorisation and adaptation in the humanities, and analysis of and experimentation with the rhetoric of theorising 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.
Note
Asking why adaptation has been seen as more problematic to theorise 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 theorising adaptation" through a metacritical history of theorising adaptation from the late sixteenth century to the present, a metatheoretical theory of the relationship between theorisation and adaptation in the humanities, and analysis of and experimentation with the rhetoric of theorising 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 29, 2020).
Series
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780197511176
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