TY - JOUR
AU - Cutchins, Dennis
AB - Adaptation Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 116–118 doi:10.1093/adaptation/apv027 Advance Access publication 21 October 2015 BOOK REVIEW Deborah Cartmell and Imelda Whelehan, eds. Teaching Adaptations. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 208 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-31115-3 Let me cut straight to the chase and say that this is a delightful book. I  thoroughly enjoyed it and strongly recommend it to anyone who teaches, or is thinking about teaching adaptations. I  am often approached at conferences and asked for materials on how I teach adaptations. I typically oblige by sending my syllabi, reading lists, and assignments, but I  recognise that these are never more than moderately helpful. But now I have some concrete advice for people teaching adaptation for the first time—get a copy of this book. Building on the work of Dennis Cutchins, Laurence Raw, and James Welsh’s two-volume series on adaptation and teaching: The Pedagogy of Adaptation and Redefining Adaptation Studies (both published by Scarecrow in 2010), the approaches outlined here in concise and well-documented chapters represent the cutting edge in education in the field of adaptation studies, and have implications for future scholarship in the field. After an introduction by Cartmell and Whelehan, the book begins with a chapter by Shelley Cobb that offers a 
TI - Teaching Adaptations
JF - Adaptation
DO - 10.1093/adaptation/apv027
DA - 2016-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/teaching-adaptations-RFbetwOXtU
SP - 116
EP - 118
VL - 9
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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