Renowned Literary Scholar 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. Persuasive And Illuminating, 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 Question Of Whether T Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Beginning To Theorize Adaptation: What? Who? Why? How? Where? When?; 2 What? (forms); 3 Who? Why? (adapters); 4 How? (audiences); 5 Where? When? (contexts); 6 Final Questions; References; Index Linda Hutcheon. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 179-202) And Index. English