Adapting Nineteenth-Century France: Literature in Film, Theatre, Television, Radio and Print (French and Francophone Studies) - Hardcover

Watts, Andrew; Griffiths, Kate

 
9780708325940: Adapting Nineteenth-Century France: Literature in Film, Theatre, Television, Radio and Print (French and Francophone Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0708325947 ISBN 13: 9780708325940
Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2013

Synopsis

Arguing that we need to reconceptualize the study of adaptations, Andrew Watts and Kate Griffiths examine six canonical French novelists and the recreations of their works in a variety of media. Rather than viewing the works of Balzac, Hugo, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant, and Verne as authentic original versions to be defended from the impurities of adapting hands, the authors demonstrate that these “originals” are themselves fashioned from the adapted voices of a host of earlier artists, moments, and media. Analyzing reworkings of canonical literary texts across time and media to emphasize the ways adaptations cast new light on source texts, Adapting Nineteenth-Century France reveals the complexities of both nineteenth-century and contemporary notions of originality and authorial borrowing.

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About the Authors

Andrew Watts is a lecturer in French studies at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Kate Griffiths is a lecturer in French and translation at Cardiff University, UK.

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Publisher
University of Wales Press
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0708325947
ISBN 13 
9780708325940
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
288

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