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adaptation theoryMay 30, 2024May 30, 2024

If Gazelle Nataways is Nanabush, can she also be a Greek Goddess? Or, Linda Hutcheon cuts a corner.

Linda Hutcheon’s Theory of Adaptation holds a canonical place on my bookshelf and in my heart. The book’s sanity cuts through problems of theorizing adaption. Hutcheon’s approach is unencumbered by jargon and murk. Since its publication in 2006 and revision in 2013 — 2nd ed. from Routledge …

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Roger Macfarlane
adaptation, Artist, scyllaMay 15, 2024May 15, 2024

Giving Glaucus the Finger: Bartholomeus Spranger and his haughty Scylla

Scylla was not always the man-eating cliff-dwelling creature that devoured seafarers and their crews. Scylla came to be all that after Circe’s magical potions transformed her into the atavistic horror Odysseus met first-hand. In her earlier existence, Scylla was once a comely young woman whom …

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Roger Macfarlane
adaptation theory, Mythology, scyllaApril 30, 2024May 15, 2024

Not all seafarers play the Odysseus

Honoré Daumier’s satirical cartoon “De Charybde en Scylla” (From Charybdis to Scylla) is cataloged in the Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts as a usage of the myth of Odysseus with Scylla and Charybdis. The usage, however, has more to do with Scylla …

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Roger Macfarlane
adaptation, Electra, Mythology, OresteiaOctober 31, 2022May 16, 2024

Electra, My Love (M. Jancsó, 1974)

OresteiThis post was written for MythMatters in August 2015 and modestly corrected here. Miklós Jancsó adapted the stageplay by L. Gyurkó, Szerelmem, Elektra, into the 1974 film Electra, My Love. The film is very watchable as cinema … for some viewers (to judge by the Amazon.com reviews!). …

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Roger Macfarlane
adaptation theory, Athena, student contributorsSeptember 2, 2021May 16, 2024

THE Athens of the South

The big question, the deep thought behind this post is this: What does it mean when a place like Nashville, TN claims to be “THE Athens of the South”? Granted, I have added the emphatic CAPS. Yet, this was the claim in the age of …

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Roger Macfarlane
adaptation theory, Artist, Baucis & Philemon, OdysseyJuly 15, 2021May 16, 2024

Ada reads Baucis and Philemon into C. Frazier’s Cold Mountain (1997)

The protagonist of Cold Mountain, Ada, reads to Ruby’s kids and to her own nine-year old daughter the story of Baucis and Philemon, a myth of gained paradise. Without any overt acknowledgement of this myth’s approach within the novel, Frazier uses the myth’s telling as …

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Roger Macfarlane
adaptation, MedusaJune 17, 2021May 16, 2024

Willy Claflin and “Pegamoose”

Willy Claflin’s “Pegamoose and the Gorgonzola Medusa” is a mythological adaptation of the classical myth of Perseus and Medusa, a kind of doggerel pastiche passing familiar details but veering into a novel account of a heroic moose. Whether or not the result is comic brilliance …

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Roger Macfarlane

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