Television Series as Literature (eBook)

Reto Winckler, Víctor Huertas-Martín (Herausgeber)

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2022 | 1st ed. 2021
XVII, 355 Seiten
Springer Singapore (Verlag)
978-981-15-4720-1 (ISBN)

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This book explores how television series can be understood as a form of literature, bridging the gap between literary and television studies. It goes beyond existing adaptation studies and narratological approaches to television series in both its scope and depth. The respective chapters address literary works, themes, tropes, techniques, values, genres, and movements in relation to a broad variety of television series, while drawing on the theoretical work of a host of scholars from Simone de Beauvoir and Yuri Lotman to Ted Nannicelli and Jason Mittel, and on critical approaches ranging from narratology and semiotics to empirical sociology and phenomenology.

The book fosters new ways of understanding television series and literature and lays the groundwork for future scholarship in a number of fields. By questioning the alleged divide between television series and works of literature, it contributes not only to a better understanding of television series and literary texts themselves, but also to the development of interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities.

Reto Winckler is an Associate Research Fellow at South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China. He received his PhD in English Literature from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research revolves around Shakespeare's plays and their multimedial afterlives, concentrating on issues of madness and folly, ordinary language philosophy, and the adaptation of Shakespeare in contemporary television series and digital media. His articles have been published in Shakespeare, Adaptation, Cahiers E´lisabe´thains, The Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, and elsewhere

Víctor Huertas-Martín is an Assistant Lecturer at the Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació of the Universitat de Valéncia, Spain. He received his PhD in English Literature at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in 2017. Besides the hybridity of theatrical and filmic languages in TV Shakespeares, his research focuses on Serial Shakespeares, as well as space in Shakespearean performance. Currently, he is preparing, annotating and editing the first Spanish translation of Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam. His work has been published in Atlantis, Shakespeare Bulletin, Sederi Yearbook, Cahiers Élisabéthains, Literature/Film Quarterly, and in Eating Shakespeare: Cultural Anthropophagy as Methodology (Arden, 2019), amongst others.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.1.2022
• Zusatzinfo: XVII, 355 p. 12 illus., 10 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Adaptation and Authorial Identity • Contemporary TV Series and Literature • Democratic and Redemptive Reading • Intertextuality and Paratexts • Poetics and Television • Seriality and Canonization • Storytelling and Medium Specificity
• ISBN-10: 981-15-4720-3 / 9811547203
• ISBN-13: 978-981-15-4720-1 / 9789811547201