Textual Transformations in Children's Literature: Adaptations, Translations, Reconsiderations

by Benjamin Lefebvre

Book Overview

This book offers new critical approaches for the study of adaptations, abridgments, translations, parodies, and mash-ups that occur internationally in contemporary children's culture. It follows recent shifts in adaptation studies that call for a move beyond fidelity criticism, a paradigm that measures the success of an adaptation by the level of fidelity to the "original" text, toward a methodology that considers the adaptation to be always already...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138850829
• ISBN13: 9781138850828
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"