Expanding Adaptation Studies

by Laurence Raw

This book examines adaptation through the writings of constructivist theorists, such as Jean Piaget and Jerome Bruner. It thus shifts attention away from the textual relationships involved in order to focus on adaptation as a process of acclimatizing oneself to new phenomena and thereby learning how to make sense of the world. Rejecting the notion of an ideal "reader" or "spectator", Expanding Adaptation Studies pays scrupulous attention to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319988174
• ISBN13: 9783319988177
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan