can adaptation studies survive?
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Can Adaptation Studies Survive?
Laurence Raw (Baskent
University, Ankara)
“Adaptation Studies has had its day” (Publisher)
Reasons?
Similar Theoretical Approaches
Repetitive Agenda
Literature-Film-Media-History
Research for its Own Sake
Working like Mr. Casaubon in George Eliot’s Novel
MIDDLEMARCH (1871)
Books & Articles Published for Career Advancement, not to Read
Research Projects To Survive in Higher Education
How Can Adaptation Studies Survive and Develop?
Adaptation is a Way of Life, not Just a Textual Process
Adaptation is Part of Popular Cultures
Adaptation is POLITICAL as well as PERSONAL
…just ask the Pueblo
Indians
A Modest Proposal for Adaptation Studies’ Future
… after Jonathan Swift
Condemn Fidelity Studies to the Trash
… or study it comparatively or historically
Examine How Audiences Have Adapted to Texts over
Time & Space
Everyone is an Author of their Own Adaptation
Negotiate Difference
Create New Communities of Purpose
… concentrating not only on HOW Texts are adapted but on WHY we adapt to them
and what that process tells us about ourselves and our
relationship to others
Perception is Fundamental to Ourselves
… and how we adapt