Sub/versions draws together recent work analysing texts that exist
in a complicated relationship to issues of "high" and "low"
culture. An important aspect of this debate is the manner in which
the critical reception of "original" versions can act to resist the
validity of new or re-imagined adaptations. Equally important is
the reception of works that are self-consciously intertextual, or
exist in various forms and different media. The research
represented here examines these issues, exploring the changes that
are made between versions and the ways in which these
transformations might subvert the original text. The approach of
this collection is therefore fundamentally interdisciplinary,
drawing on a range of topics related to subversion and
"sub/versions", including translation, parody, satire, metafiction,
performance, allegory, and genre. "An incisive and innovative
collection of essays that combines a theoretical enquiry into the
nature of subversive texts, with scholarly readings of key
contemporary authors such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Jeanette Winterson,
Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, and Philip Pullman, and artists and
filmmakers such as Terry Gilliam, Mary Harron and Orson
Welles."-Professor Marion Wynne Davies, University of Surrey"A
diverse collection of papers exploring the emerging territories of
subversion in literature, comics and film. A useful guide for
undergraduate and research students working in these areas.
"-Professor Peter Kitson, President of English Association"Nearly
all the greatest stories are re-tellings - Sophocles, Shakespeare,
Milton, Tennyson, and hosts of others of like stature, were all in
the re-tale trade. Their tales go on being recycled in a cultural
economy that recognises no boundaries of genre or nationality. In
the twentieth century the pace has intensified, in line with the
growth of new cultural forms, and we now encounter cannonical tales
re-born in graphic novels, animated cartoons, operas (of both the
soap and thehigh-art kind), art installations, poems, stories, and
digital media. This book is a lively and much-needed examination of
the processes of textual subversion and metamorphosis which remain
a major force in our culture."-Professor Peter Barry, Aberystwyth
University
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