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Title Pockets of change : adaptation and cultural transition / edited by Tricia Hopton ... [et al.]
Published Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 179 p.)
Contents Acknowledgments and Permissions -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 -- Haunted Space -- 2 -- Adapting Verbatim Theater -- 3 -- Cross-Cultural Adaptation and the Transition toward Reconciliation in Australian Film and Literature -- 4 -- "Enraptured with every scent and flavour of the East"? -- 5 -- Cosmopolitanism in Twenty-First Century Indian English Poetry -- 6 -- Young Writer, "Young Country" -- 7 -- Imagined Villages and Knowable Communities -- 8 -- Authentic Traditions on Show? -- 9 -- A Pocket of Change in Post-War Australia -- 10 -- "Delighted Stares" -- 11 -- "Human Cylinders" -- 12 -- Between the Painting and the Novel -- Works Cited -- About the Editors and Contributors
Summary The twelve essays collected in Pockets of Change locate adaptation within a framework of two overlapping, if not simultaneous, creative processes: on the one hand, adaptation is to be understood as an acknowledged transposition of an existing source-that is, the process of adapting from; on the other hand, adaption is also a process of purposeful shifting and evolving of creative practices in response to external factors, including but not limited to other creative works-in other words, the processof adapting to. This book explores adaptation, then, as an active practice of repetition and as a
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Literature -- Adaptations -- History and criticism
Film adaptations -- History and criticism
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Film adaptations.
Literature -- Adaptations.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Hopton, Tricia, 1977-
LC no. 2020739992
ISBN 9780739165355
0739165356
1283071819
9781283071819
9786613071811
6613071811