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1. A Theory of Adaptation

   2nd Edition

   By Linda Hutcheon

   A Theory of Adaptation explores the continuous development of creative adaptation, and argues that the practice of adapting is central to the story-telling imagination. Linda Hutcheon develops a theory of adaptation through a range of media, from film and opera, to video games, pop music and theme...

   To Be Published July 23rd 2012 by Routledge
2. A Theory of Adaptation

   By Linda Hutcheon

   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...

   Published June 12th 2006 by Routledge
3. The Politics of Postmodernism

   2nd Edition

   By Linda Hutcheon

   Series: New Accents

   This classic text remains one of the clearest and most incisive introductions to postmodernism. Perhaps more importantly, it is a compelling discussion of why postmodernism matters. Working through the issue of representation in art forms from fiction to photography, Linda Hutcheon sets out...

   Published May 15th 2002 by Routledge
4. The Politics of Postmodernism

   By Linda Hutcheon

   Series: New Accents

   Continuing the project begun in The Poetics of Postmodernism, Linda Hutcheon focuses on the politics of representation. Looking at both mass media and high art forms, she challenges the seeming transparency and apparent apolitical innocence of our visual images and verbal stories, asserting that...

   Published January 3rd 2002 by Routledge
5. Irony's Edge

   The Theory and Politics of Irony

   By Linda Hutcheon

   The edge of irony, says Linda Hutcheon, is always a social and political edge. Irony depends upon interpretation; it happens in the tricky, unpredictable space between expression and understanding. Irony's Edge is a fascinating, compulsively readable study of the myriad forms and the effects of...

   Published November 16th 1994 by Routledge
6. A Poetics of Postmodernism

   History, Theory, Fiction

   By Linda Hutcheon

   Neither a defense nor a denunciation of the postmodern, it continues Hutcheon's previous projects in studying formal self-consciousness in art, but adds to this both a historical and ideological dimension....

   Published May 11th 1988 by Routledge