The Adaptation of History: Essays on Ways of Telling the Past

This collection of essays asks the question "What is history?" and considers how history is shaped in different socioeconomic contexts. The writers take a transdisciplinary approach, in the belief that everyone who deals with history--including professional historians, novelists, and poets--constructs narratives of the past to make sense of the present as well as to determine their future courses of action. With contributions from a variety of specialists in media studies, literature, history and anthropology, this book breaks new ground in adaptation studies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786472545
• ISBN13: 9780786472543
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher