A Theory of Adaptation

Linda Hutcheon explores the ubiquity of adaptations in all their various media incarnations and challenges their constant critical denigration. Adaptation, Hutcheon argues, has always been a central mode of the story-telling imagination and deserves to be studied in all its breadth and range as both a process (of creation and reception) and a product unto its own. 'A Theory of Adaptation' is a bold rethinking of how adaptation works across all media and genres that may put an end to the age-old