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Expanding Adaptation Networks

From Illustration to Novelization

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  • © 2017

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Authors:
  1. Kate Newell

    1. Savannah College of Art and Design , Savannah, USA

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  • The first book-length study of print-based adaptations
  • The only book to treat illustrations, maps, pop-up books, and ekphrasis as adaptation
  • Presents ephemera as central to adaptation and the development of cultural memory of a work
  • Considers in-depth canonical, non-canonical, and fan-produced adaptations.

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture (PSADVC)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Not in Kansas Anymore: Adaptation Networks

    • Kate Newell
    Pages 1-23

  3. “It Wasn’t Like That in the Movie”: Novelization and Expansion

    • Kate Newell
    Pages 25-62

  4. Imagining the Unimaginable: Illustration as Gateway

    • Kate Newell
    Pages 63-98

  5. Literary Maps and the Creation of a Legend

    • Kate Newell
    Pages 99-134

  6. Pop-up Books: Spectacle and Story

    • Kate Newell
    Pages 135-166

  7. “All Text is Lost”: Ekphrastic Reading

    • Kate Newell
    Pages 167-195

  8. Conclusion: Like an Open Book

    • Kate Newell
    Pages 197-210

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 211-228
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About this book

This book addresses print-based modes of adaptation that have not conventionally been theorized as adaptations—such as novelization, illustration, literary maps, pop-up books, and ekphrasis. It discusses a broad range of image and word-based adaptations of popular literary works, among them The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, Daisy Miller, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Moby Dick, and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The study reveals that commercial and franchise works and ephemera play a key role in establishing a work’s iconography. Newell argues that the cultural knowledge and memory of a work is constructed through reiterative processes and proposes a network-based model of adaptation to explain this. Whereas most adaptation studies prioritize film and television, this book’s focus on print invites new entry points for the study of adaptation.


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“Sophisticated, lucid and expansive, Kate Newell’s intervention in the field of contemporary adaptation studies is one of the most important scholarly contributions to the field in recent years. It assimilates key historical positions and weaves them through new and inventive networks of production and reception that go well beyond conventional notions of what adaptation means and well beyond the usual texts and practices where adaptation has traditionally been located.” (Timothy Corrigan, Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Pennsylvania, USA, and author of Film and Literature, 2011) “Readers eager to see adaptation studies move beyond films based on novels, stories, plays, or comic books will welcome Kate Newell’s focus on the “print-based adaptation networks” represented by novelizations, illustrated novels, literary maps, pop-up books, and ekphrastic poetry and prose. Newell’s illuminating accounts of adaptations that involve not so much changes in media as changes in modality offer compelling new ways to think about the relationships between texts and the readers who love them.” (Thomas Leitch, Professor of English at the University of Delaware, USA, and most recently the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Savannah College of Art and Design , Savannah, USA

    Kate Newell

About the author

Kate Newell teaches courses in literature and adaptation at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia.

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