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As A Christmas Carol and GreatExpectations form the primary focus of the entire seminar, NEH Summer Scholarswill be asked to read (or re-read) both novels prior to their arrival. If you knowthe novels before you arrive, you will know them in infinitely more rich detailby the time you leave, having lived closely with these texts for a month. Thecritical and theoretical readings for the seminar represent an array ofscholarly currents (in Dickens criticism and adaptation studies) and have beenselected based on their accessibility and usefulness: they represent ideas thatcan be readily translated to classroom discussion at various levels. One 2011 participantobserved that I “framed the seminar with several critical articles. Whichallowed us as students to step into the critical debate, feel our way aroundit, and ultimately shape our own idea of adaptation and how it works.” Thesereadings encourage us to consider how literary criticism itself functions as aform of adaptation—a re-visioning of a literary text, a re-articulation of atext for new audiences and purposes. The critical readings will be scanned,converted to PDF, and made available to NEH Summer Scholars via this website well inadvance of the seminar.
Though the work load and pacing are demanding, therewill be time for the Summer Scholars to complete most of the secondary readingassignments during their residence (though you may find it helpful to havecompleted the longer novels prior to the start of the seminar).Novels and Plays. Bueno De Mesquita, Bruce. The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge. Columbus: OhioState UP, 2001. Carey, Peter. New York:Vintage, 1997. Dickens, Charles.
A Christmas Carol. Cheswold, DE: Prestwick House, 2005. Dickens, Charles. New York:Norton, 1999. Gupta, Tanika. Great Expectations.
London:Oberon, 2011. Jones, Lloyd.
Beyond Fidelity The Dialogics Of Adaptation Pdf Converter Pdf
New York:Dial, 2008. Mula, Tom. New York: Dramatist’s Play Service, 2003.Films.
Beyond Fidelity The Dialogics Of Adaptation Pdf Converter Online
.AbstractIn reviewing the current state of adaptation studies in 2008, Thomas Leitch argued that many scholars — even those claiming to have overcome the age of moralistic comparative novel-to-film studies that value fidelity above all else — have found it very difficult to escape the grip of literary status and the fixation with novel-to-film adaptations. Leitch argues that they should instead focus on Bakhtinian intertextuality, according to which ‘every text — adaptation or not — is influenced by a series of previous texts from which it could not help borrowing’. 1 Says Leitch: ‘Despite the best efforts of virtually every other theorist of adaptation past and present, the field is still haunted by the notion that adaptations ought to be faithful to their ostensible source texts.’ 2 Two main and connected conclusions can be drawn from Leitch’s review: (1) ‘there is no such thing as a single source for any adaptation’; and, (2) scholars should no longer engage in value-comparative studies that persistently devalue adaptations into newer media by negatively comparing their narratives and aesthetics with typically highbrow literature source texts. 3 In what follows, I take up two of Leitch’s suggested avenues of inquiry for a reinvigorated adaptation studies, investigating questions about ‘different kinds of fidelity’ raised by ‘adaptations of other sorts of texts than canonical literary works’ and about ‘relations between adaptation and other intertextual modes’.