Textual Transformations in Children's Literature (Children's Literature and Cu..

Textual Transformations in Children's LiteratureAdaptations, Translations, Reconsiderations\nAuthor(s): Benjamin Lefebvre\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415509718, 978-0415509718\nSynopsis\nThis book offers new critical approaches for the study of adaptations, abridgments, translations, parodies, and mash-ups that occur internationally in contemporary childrens 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 in conversation with the adapted text. This book visits childrens literature and culture in order to consider the generic, pedagogical, and ideological underpinnings that drive both the process and the product. Focusing on novels as well as folktales, films, graphic novels, and .