TY - CHAP

T1 - The theory of BAD-aptation

AU - Elliott, Kamilla

PY - 2018/4/11

Y1 - 2018/4/11

N2 - This chapter addresses the discourse of BADaptation (a term coined by Con Verevis), arguing that it stems largely from a longstanding dysfunctional relationship between adaptation and theorization, rival processes vying to shape culture in their images. New theories have not, as scholars had hoped, eradicated the discourse; they have rather multiplied the ways in which adaptation can be theoretically bad. The chapter proposes that we theorize adaptations as adaptations (rather than solely or merely as books, films, media, translation, narrative, politics, history, philosophy, and so forth) and that we develop ‘adaptive theorization’, in which adaptation talks back to and adapts theorization to itself.

AB - This chapter addresses the discourse of BADaptation (a term coined by Con Verevis), arguing that it stems largely from a longstanding dysfunctional relationship between adaptation and theorization, rival processes vying to shape culture in their images. New theories have not, as scholars had hoped, eradicated the discourse; they have rather multiplied the ways in which adaptation can be theoretically bad. The chapter proposes that we theorize adaptations as adaptations (rather than solely or merely as books, films, media, translation, narrative, politics, history, philosophy, and so forth) and that we develop ‘adaptive theorization’, in which adaptation talks back to and adapts theorization to itself.

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9781138915404

T3 - Routledge Companions

SP - 18

EP - 27

BT - The Routledge Companion to Adaptation

A2 - Cutchins, Dennis

A2 - Krebs, Katja

A2 - Voigts, Eckart

PB - Routledge

CY - London

ER -