can adaptation studies survive?

Can Adaptation Studies Survive?

Laurence Raw (Baskent

University, Ankara)

“Adaptation Studies has had its day” (Publisher)

Reasons?

Similar Theoretical Approaches

Repetitive Agenda

Literature-Film-Media-History

Research for its Own Sake

Working like Mr. Casaubon in George Eliot’s Novel

MIDDLEMARCH (1871)

Books & Articles Published for Career Advancement, not to Read

Research Projects To Survive in Higher Education

How Can Adaptation Studies Survive and Develop?

Adaptation is a Way of Life, not Just a Textual Process

Adaptation is Part of Popular Cultures

Adaptation is POLITICAL as well as PERSONAL

…just ask the Pueblo

Indians

A Modest Proposal for Adaptation Studies’ Future

… after Jonathan Swift

Condemn Fidelity Studies to the Trash

… or study it comparatively or historically

Examine How Audiences Have Adapted to Texts over

Time & Space

Everyone is an Author of their Own Adaptation

Negotiate Difference

Create New Communities of Purpose

… concentrating not only on HOW Texts are adapted but on WHY we adapt to them

and what that process tells us about ourselves and our

relationship to others

Perception is Fundamental to Ourselves

… and how we adapt