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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rainer Emig
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.874.210
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Requirements / organisational issues:
Adaptation has increasingly moved into the focus of Literary and Cultural Studies in recent years. This was, on the one hand, the result of the insight that culture (and within it literature) are always in the process of adapting previous materials. In terms of literary texts, this mechanism was previously described as intertextuality. Once media change enters this provess, we can talk about adaptation. The seminar will look at definitions of adaptation and some of its key aspects and questions, such as the position of a possible 'original', the question of authorship, intended 'readers', or the effects of adaptation on the potential 'meanings' of texts. It will use most recent contributions to the debate, such as essays from The Routledge Companion to Adaptation (2018). It will also attempt its own analyses of the adaptation of selected materials from English-language literatures and cultures.
Background Reading:
Leitch, Thomas M., ed. (2017): The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies. New York: Oxford University Press. Print.
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