Unit name | Translation and Adaptation |
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Unit code | DRAM30055 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Dr. Krebs |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of Theatre |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit introduces students to a range of issues related to adaptation and translation in theatre and performance. Covering areas such as conceptual approaches to the investigation of adaptation and translation practices and histories, as well as practical approaches to adaptation and translation, this unit will engage critically and practically with such modes of re-writing. Starting with a historical perspective of the practice of and distinction between adaptation and translation, students will encounter a whole spectrum of examples, ranging from the popular, such as the musical, to the avant-garde and postdramatic. Students will explore the relationship between notions of authorship and original which form the basis of historic understandings of adaptation and translation as process and product. A range of ways of working with source texts in order to produce adaptations and/or translations will be introduced and students will explore strategies for re-writing and re-imagining a variety of texts. These practical explorations will be analysed in terms of their artistic, economic, political and ideological contexts.
Aims
Weekly 2-hour seminars, weekly 2-hour student-led workshops.
2,500 word essay (40%): ILO 1, 3, 4
3,500 word critically annotated adaptation or translation script (60%): ILO 1 - 5
Bassnett, S. and A. Lefevere (1998), Constructing Cultures: Essays on Literary Translation, Clevedon: Multilingual Matters
Cronin, M (2006), Translation and Identity, New York & London: Routledge.
Hutcheon, L. (2006), A Theory of Adaptation, New York & London: Routledge.
Krebs, K.(ed.) (2014), Translation and Adaptation in Theatre and Film, New York & London: Routledge.
Pietrzak-Franger, M. and E. Voigts-Virchow (eds.) (2009), Adaptations: Performing across Media and Genres, Trier: WVT
Sanders J. (2006), Adaptation and Appropriation, New York & London: Routledge.