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Can Adaptation Studies Survive? Laurence Raw (Baskent University, Ankara)

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Page 1: Can Adaptation Studies Survive?

Can Adaptation Studies Survive?

Laurence Raw (Baskent

University, Ankara)

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“Adaptation Studies has had its day” (Publisher)

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Reasons?

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Similar Theoretical Approaches

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Repetitive Agenda

Literature-Film-Media-History

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Research for its Own Sake

Working like Mr. Casaubon in George Eliot’s Novel

MIDDLEMARCH (1871)

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Books & Articles Published for Career Advancement, not to Read

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Research Projects To Survive in Higher Education

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How Can Adaptation Studies Survive and Develop?

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Adaptation is a Way of Life, not Just a Textual Process

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Adaptation is Part of Popular Cultures

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Adaptation is POLITICAL as well as PERSONAL

…just ask the Pueblo

Indians

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A Modest Proposal for Adaptation Studies’ Future

… after Jonathan Swift

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Condemn Fidelity Studies to the Trash

… or study it comparatively or historically

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Examine How Audiences Have Adapted to Texts over

Time & Space

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Everyone is an Author of their Own Adaptation

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Negotiate Difference

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Create New Communities of Purpose

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… 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

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Perception is Fundamental to Ourselves

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… and how we adapt