This book provides a pioneering and provocative exploration of the rich synergies between adaptation studies and translation studies and is the first genuine attempt to discuss the rather loose usage of the concepts of translation and adaptation in terms of theatre and film. At the heart of this collection is the proposition that translation studies and adaptation studies have much to offer each other in practical and theoretical terms and can no longer exist independently from one another. As a result, it generates productive ideas within the contact zone between these two fields of study, both through new theoretical paradigms and detailed case studies. Such closely intertwined areas as translation and adaptation need to encounter each other’s methodologies and perspectives in order to develop ever more rigorous approaches to the study of adaptation and translation phenomena, challenging current assumptions and prejudices in terms of both. The book includes contributions as diverse yet interrelated as Bakhtin’s notion of translation and adaptation, Bollywood adaptations of Shakespeare’s Othello, and an analysis of performance practice, itself arguably an adaptive practice, which uses a variety of languages from English and Greek to British and International Sign-Language. As translation and adaptation practices are an integral part of global cultural and political activities and agendas, it is ever more important to study such occurrences of rewriting and reshaping. By exploring and investigating interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives and approaches, this volume investigates the impact such occurrences of rewriting have on the constructions and experiences of cultures while at the same time developing a rigorous methodological framework which will form the basis of future scholarship on performance and film, translation and adaptation.
Edited by:
Katja Krebs (University of Bristol UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 435g
ISBN: 9781032926711
ISBN 10: 1032926716
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Pages: 236
Publication Date: 14 October 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
1. Introduction: Collisions, Diversions and Meeting Points Katja Krebs Part I: Converging Agendas 2. Definitions, Dyads, Triads and Other Points of Connection in Translation and Adaptation Discourse Márta Minier 3. Bakhtin, Translation and Adaptation Dennis Cutchins 4. Anti-Essentialist Versions of Aggregate Alice: A Grin Without a Cat Eckart Voigts-Virchow Part II: Merging Ideas 5. Theorising Omkara John Milton 6. The Thief of Baghdad: Foreignising Adaptations Jessica Wiest 7. Molière among the Penguins: John Wood’s translations for the early Penguin Classics Adrienne Mason Part III: Emerging Practices 8. Half-Masks and Stage Blood: Translating, Adapting and Performing French Historical Theatre Forms Richard J. Hand 9. Bridging the Translation/ Adaptation Divide: A Pedagogical View Laurence Raw & Tony Gurr 10. Scenic Narration: Between Film and Theatre Ildikó Ungvari Zrínyi 11. When Creation, Translation and Adaptation Meet: SignDance Collective’s New Gold Pedro de Senna
Katja Krebs is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.
