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Jul 1, 2016 · I suggest that we add memory to this vocabulary, since our experience and re-experience of the text through adaptation is a process akin to the doubling effect and multidimensional aspect of memory. The work of memory within the individual mind and the individual text increases its power and effect when it is expanded to incorporate the web of relationships between isolated works.
- Lindsay Starck
- 2016
Mar 8, 2024 · In "The Giver," the absence of memory dulls the emotional landscape of the characters, rendering them incapable of experiencing the full range of human emotions. Without memory, joy, love, and even pain lose their meaning and significance, resulting in a hollow existence. In "The Giver," the pursuit of happiness is portrayed as an elusive and ...
In his contribution to Film Adaptation, Stam adds to this by saying that film is regarded as having a lack of “depth or dignity” and a “non-finalized set of practices” (Naremore 59). The author Graham Greene once said, the cinema “has the same purpose as the novel, just as the novel has the same purpose as the drama” (Skerrett 298 ...
Amnesia fictions may be the most abundant precursors to the contemporary neuronovel. A cluster of recent, high-profile fiction and nonfiction amnesia narratives join a rapidly evolving tradition of neuronovels and brain memoirs, drawing on neuroscience to explore philosophical and social questions about the brain, identity, social relations, and history.
Aug 2, 2023 · This book demonstrates that one of the most significant thematic and formal developments in the twenty-first-century Anglophone novels is precisely this preoccupation with the (space of) latency in the realm of memory. Without this mysterious space of latency, memory narratives will not emerge. Assmann’s theory (2011) about the two modes of ...
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2019. The discipline of adaptation studies has come a long way from its academic inception in novel-to-film studies. Since George Bluestone's seminal 1957 study Novels into Film, often regarded as the starting point of modern day Anglo-American adaptation studies, the discipline has seen a continual widening of its methodology as well as of the material scholars are willing to regard as ...
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Like the conference that gave birth to it, this book shows what happens when people are encouraged to think outside the box—or, more appropriately, outside the page. The theory and practice of adaptation has indeed become a “hot” topic today, but these essays move both the creative and the scholarly discussions of it in new directions.
