Descriptive adaptation studies - Patrick Cattrysse

epistemological and methodological issues

KORTE INHOUD

Over het boek:

It is common practice nowadays for adaptation critics to denounce the lack of meta-theoretical thinking in adaptation studies and to plead for a study of 'adaptation-as-adaptation'; one that eschews value judgments, steps beyond normative fidelity-based discourse, examines adaptation from an intertextual perspective, and abandons the single-source model for a multiple-source model. This study looks into a research program that does all that and more. It was developed in the late 1980s and presented in the early 1990s as a 'polysystem' (PS) study of adaptations.

Since then, the PS label has been replaced with 'descriptive'. This book studies the question of whether and how a PS approach could evolve into a descriptive adaptation studies (DAS) approach. Although not perfect (no method is), DAS offers a number of assets. Apart from dealing with the above-mentioned issues, DAS transcends an Auteurist approach and looks at explanation beyond the level of individual agency (even if contextualized). As ...
2014Taal: Engelszie alle details...

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2014Uitgever: Garant Uitgevers363 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 904413129XISBN-13: 9789044131291

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