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Adaptation Considered as a Collaborative Art
This book examines the processes of adaptation across a number of intriguing case studies and media. Turning its attention from the 'what' to the 'how' of adaptation, it serves to re-situate the discourse of adaptation studies, moving away from the hypotheses that used to haunt it, such as fidelity, to questions of how texts, authors and other creative practitioners (always understood as a plurality) engage in dialogue with one another across cultures, media, languages, genders and time itself. With fifteen chapters across fields including fine art and theory, drama and theatre, and television, this interdisciplinary volume considers adaptation across the creative and performance arts, with a single focus on the collaborative.
Re-Thinking Kinship and Feudalism in Early Medieval Europe
This is the second collection of studies by Stephen D. White to be published by Variorum (the first being Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Century France). The essays in this volume look principally at France and England from Merovingian and Anglo-Saxon times up to the 12th century. They analyze Latin and Old French discourses that medieval nobles used to construct their relationships with kin, lords, men, and friends, and investigate the political dimensions of such relationships with particular reference to patronage/clientage, the use of land as an item of exchange, and feuding. In so doing, the essays call into question the conventional practice of studying kinship and feudalism as independent systems of legal institutions and propose new strategies for studying them.
Contemporary Fiction in French
Demonstrates how contemporary fiction in French has become a polycentric and transnational field of vibrant and varied experimentation.
Gutenberg's Europe
Major transformations in society are always accompanied by parallel transformations in systems of social communication what we call the media. In this book, historian Frédéric Barbier provides an important new economic, political and social analysis of the first great 'media revolution' in the West: Gutenbergs invention of the printing press in the mid fifteenth century. In great detail and with a wealth of historical evidence, Barbier charts the developments in manuscript culture in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and shows how the steadily increasing need for written documents initiated the processes of change which culminated with Gutenberg. The fifteenth century is presented as t...
Chroniques d'Altaride n°019 Décembre 2013
L'architecture, voilà le fondement de ce dix-neuvième numéro des Chroniques d'Altaride ! Parler d'architecture, c'est s'interroger sur la cohérence des univers imaginaires qui servent de base à nos voyages ludiques. Alors comment créer quelque chose qui se tient, qui a un sens ? Nos contributeurs vous propose ce mois-ci quelques articles pour y réfléchir ensemble mais on retrouvera aussi nos rubriques Culture rôliste, Fenêtre sur... et vos bandes dessinées préférées !
