Description
This volume examines the updating of literature and the approaches used by different literary disciplines to open up literary texts for new receptions. Updating is a fundamental process of literary studies. It occurs in every act of reading and is particularly visible in the transferring modes of translation and adaptation. Here, the updating process is particularly evident because it involves transferring from one language to another, from one medium to another, and often from one time or culture to another. The question of how meaningful updating can be achieved concerns all literary disciplines, both in their direct interaction with texts in teaching and research and in the academic and popular culture perspective on the afterlife of texts charged with cultural capital. It is also a source of heated debate in the contemporary literary world.
This volume offers a methodological survey of various practices and modes of literary updating (adaptation, translation, remediation) and thus also casts a fundamentally new light on reception studies.
Susanne Scholz, Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
