ENGL20031 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Linda Hutcheon, Transculturation, Roland Barthes
8 May 2018
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Adaptions and Transgressions
Definitions
- Key words: imagined hierarchy of medium/genre, postmodern age of recycling,
fidelity criticism, textual fetish, moralistic and sexually loaded vocabulary,
transculturation, quasi-virginal texts, literary prestige, anxiety of adaptation, adaptation
ecosystem.
- Iconophobia is the suspicion of the visual.
- Logophilia refers to the love of the word as sacred.
- Palimpestuous refers to rewriting an old text with a new text, like an overlay. Texts on
top of text.
- Sociology in this context refers to Dudley Andrew’s conception of ‘sociology’, which
is still exclusively textual, bypassing the issues of production, commerce, and
institutional interdependence.
- Memotype
- Phemotype
Adaptation: Three Concepts
- Literary fiction has been industrialised; it has been created, published, marketed,
evaluated for literary prizes and adapted for screen.
- What does the sociological approach to literature explain?
- Adaptations are instigated by interests and agents, but they’re not aesthetic, they’re
corporate.
- Supply-chain-management, in relation to the sociology of literature(?) Is this sociology
a bad abstraction?
- On one hand, Filming Othello proves Murray’s point: financing the film, importance of
prize culture and everything that transgresses the design.
- On the other hand, financing is one element of fortune, chance, etc. “The filmmaker is
the person who presides over accidents, but doesn’t make them,” — Orson Wells.
- Split nature (necessarily splitting and internal rupture) of the aesthetic object.
- The natural world is designed to mirror the tools utilised in the Grecian period.
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Document Summary
Key words: imagined hierarchy of medium/genre, postmodern age of recycling, fidelity criticism, textual fetish, moralistic and sexually loaded vocabulary, transculturation, quasi-virginal texts, literary prestige, anxiety of adaptation, adaptation ecosystem. Iconophobia is the suspicion of the visual. Logophilia refers to the love of the word as sacred. Palimpestuous refers to rewriting an old text with a new text, like an overlay. Sociology in this context refers to dudley andrew"s conception of sociology", which is still exclusively textual, bypassing the issues of production, commerce, and institutional interdependence. Literary fiction has been industrialised; it has been created, published, marketed, evaluated for literary prizes and adapted for screen. Adaptations are instigated by interests and agents, but they"re not aesthetic, they"re corporate. Supply-chain-management, in relation to the sociology of literature(?) On one hand, filming othello proves murray"s point: financing the film, importance of prize culture and everything that transgresses the design. On the other hand, financing is one element of fortune, chance, etc.
