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  1. provides an enumerated list of current issues facing adaptation theory. So what is an adaptation? Put simply, it is when a text is interpreted from one media system to another, such as parody, format change (production of a text in another media, or updating, like in the case of Julie Taymor’s Titus), and remakes. Adaptation theory is the study

  2. Feb 1, 2005 · Here I survey the history of adaptation theory, focusing on the rise and fall of various views over the past century and the reasons for the slow development of a mature theory of adaptation.

    • H. Allen Orr
    • 2005
  3. Feb 22, 2021 · From the Augustan age until roughly the late eighteenth century, adaptation was theorized as a ‘good theoretical object... progressive, modernizing and aesthetically and morally improving’ (43).

  4. Apr 5, 2017 · This collection of forty original essays reflects on the history of adaptation studies, surveys the current state of the field, and maps out possible futures that mobilize its unparalleled ability to bring together theorists and practitioners in different modes of discourse.

  5. Oct 10, 2017 · Getting to grips with the purpose of adaptation is especially important in the context of social evolution, where different biological agents are expected to have different, conflicting purposes, and where naive notions of group-level adaptation are liable to be strongly misleading.

    • Andy Gardner
    • 10.1098/rsfs.2017.0005
    • 2017
    • Interface Focus. 2017 Oct 6; 7(5): 20170005.
  6. Aug 31, 2020 · We describe a model of the cultural adaptive process, examining aspects of adaptation that are unique to culture, and discuss the possible effects of cultural adaptation on population...

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  8. Apr 5, 2017 · Oxford Handbooks. Collection: Oxford Handbooks Online. This essay focuses on the most important concept in the brief history of adaptation studies to date: fidelity, a word that has been almost impossible to displace from our discourse.

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