Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster's Eternal Lives in Popular Culture - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1526108917 ISBN 13: 9781526108913

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2018

Riassunto

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of the most popular novels in western literature. It has been adapted and re-assembled in countless forms, from Hammer Horror films to young-adult books and bandes dessinées. Beginning with the idea of the ‘Frankenstein Complex’, this edited collection provides a series of creative readings that explore the elaborate intertextual networks that make up the novel’s remarkable afterlife. It broadens the scope of research on Frankenstein while deepening our understanding of a text that, 200 years after its original publication, continues to intrigue and terrify us in new and unexpected ways.

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Dennis R. Cutchins is Associate Professor of American Literature at Brigham Young University
Dennis R. Perry is Associate Professor of American Literature at Brigham Young University

Dennis Cutchins is Associate Professor of American Literature at Brigham Young University

Dennis R. Perry is Associate Professor of American Literature at Brigham Young University

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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of the most popular works in the history of western literature. It has been adapted and re-assembled in countless forms, from Hammer Horror films to young-adult books and bandes dessinées. This collection provides a series of creative readings exploring the elaborate intertextual networks that make up the novel’s remarkable afterlife.

Other classic texts produce adaptations from time to time, but Frankenstein has reached critical mass, with new versions appearing continually. This potentially infinite grid of intertexts, here termed the ‘Frankenstein Network’, enables a new way of reading adaptations in the light of other texts on the grid. The adaptation-studies approaches found in this book focus on the complex relationships between the various texts, disparate traditions, and dynamic media in which Frankenstein has been adapted.

As the most comprehensive collection of essays to date on why and how Frankenstein has been adapted, this is an ideal book for class explorations of adaptation theory, Frankenstein studies, Gothic horror, and Dark Romanticism. It broadens the scope of research on Frankenstein while deepening our understanding of a text that, 200 years after its original publication, continues to intrigue and terrify us in new and unexpected ways.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1526108917
• ISBN 13: 9781526108913
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 343
• Redattore: Cutchins Dennis R., Perry Dennis R.
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