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Pockets of Change - Adaptation and Cultural Transition (Hardcover)
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Pockets of Change - Adaptation and Cultural Transition (Hardcover)
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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 process of adapting to. This
book explores adaptation, then, as an active practice of repetition
and as a reactive process of development or evolution. The essays
also extend beyond the production, transformation, and
interpretation of texts to interrogate the values and practices at
work in cultural transition and transformation during periods of
social and historical change. Collectively, the papers theorize
adaptation by taking on three tasks: first, to examine the
conditions under which the two processes of adaptation operate;
second, to give an account of the space and moment in which the
processes unfold (the "pockets" of the title); and finally, to
examine what emerges from pockets of adaptation. While adapting
from and adapting to are both processes that appear to preclude
innovation in the way that they acknowledge and depend on external
sources, Pockets of Change demonstrates that adaptation is
productive. It not only references prior texts, attitudes,
practices and media, but it also invites us to re-visit the past
and to re-think the present in new ways, potentially giving
narrative space to muted or occluded voices. This book therefore
brings together an innovative and varied range of approaches to,
interpretations and uses of adaptation, challenging the assumption
that an adaptation is simply either a "re-make" or the act of
turning one medium into another. Adaptation, then, names not only
the means by which texts are transformed, but also the space in
which that transformation takes place. T
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