A Theory of Adaptation

the long version

Linda Hutcheon explores the ubiquity of adaptations in all their various media incarnations and challenges their constant critical denigration. Adaptation, Hutcheon argues, has always been a central mode of the story-telling imagination and deserves to be studied in all its breadth and range as both a process (of creation and reception) and a product unto its own. 'A Theory of Adaptation' is a bold rethinking of how adaptation works across all media and genres that may put an end to the age-old