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    Adaptation refers to the process of making a work of art based on elements from an earlier work in a different medium. Literary works have commonly been adapted as ballets, operas, films, and television shows. Adaptations can be "faithful" by preserving the original work's elements, or "free" by omitting or changing significant parts. Adaptation involves revising source texts by offering new perspectives or making works more relevant to new audiences. The process of adaptation shares similarities with editing source material but can also involve expansion and additions. Biology and ecology have also studied adaptation as the process by which organisms evolve to better suit their environments over generations through genetic or environmental changes.

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    Adaptation refers to the process of making a work of art based on elements from an earlier work in a different medium. Literary works have commonly been adapted as ballets, operas, films, and television shows. Adaptations can be "faithful" by preserving the original work's elements, or "free" by omitting or changing significant parts. Adaptation involves revising source texts by offering new perspectives or making works more relevant to new audiences. The process of adaptation shares similarities with editing source material but can also involve expansion and additions. Biology and ecology have also studied adaptation as the process by which organisms evolve to better suit their environments over generations through genetic or environmental changes.

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    Adaptation refers to the process of making a work of art based on elements from an earlier work in a different medium. Literary works have commonly been adapted as ballets, operas, films, and television shows. Adaptations can be "faithful" by preserving the original work's elements, or "free" by omitting or changing significant parts. Adaptation involves revising source texts by offering new perspectives or making works more relevant to new audiences. The process of adaptation shares similarities with editing source material but can also involve expansion and additions. Biology and ecology have also studied adaptation as the process by which organisms evolve to better suit their environments over generations through genetic or environmental changes.

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    The process of making a work of art upon the basis of elements provided by an

    earlier work in a different, usually literary, medium; also the secondary work thus
    produced. Literary works have been adapted in many forms: fairy tales as
    ballets, plays as operas, novels as stage plays (see dramatization), stage plays
    as novels or short stories. Since the early 20th century, new entertainment
    media have encouraged the adaptation of plays and novels as films or as radio
    (and later, television) dramas, and conversely the novelization of film or
    television screenplays into books. Distinctions are commonly drawn between
    faithful adaptations, in which the distinctive elements (characters, settings, plot
    events, dialogue) of the original work are preserved as far as the new medium
    allows, and free adaptations, sometimes called versions or interpretations, in
    which significant elements of the original work are omitted or replaced by wholly
    new material
    (Oxford dictionary of literary terms)

    Adaptation can be a transpositional practice, casting a specific genre into


    another generic mode, an act of re-vision itself. It can parallel editorial practice in
    some respects, indulging in the exercise of trimming and pruning; yet it can also
    be an amplificatory procedure engaged in addition, expansion, accretion and
    interpolation []. Adaptation is frequently involved in offering commentary on a
    sourcetext. This is achieved most often by offering a revised point of view from
    the original, adding hypothetical motivation, or voicing the silenced and
    marginalized. Yet adaptation can also constitute a simpler attempt to make texts
    relevant or easily comprehensible to new audiences and readerships via the
    process of proximation and updating. This can be seen as an artistic drive in
    many adaptations of so-called classical novels or drama for television and
    cinema. Shakespeare has been a particular focus, a beneficiary even, of these
    proximations or updatings.
    (Julie Sanders: Adaptation and Appropriation. Routledge: London and New York,
    2006, pp. 18-19).

    [] the disciplinary domains in which the term adaptation has proved most
    resonant are biology and ecology. Following Charles Darwins presentation of his
    controversial theories of evolution in the nineteenth century, the scientific
    community has been endlessly fascinated with the complex processes of
    environmental and genetic adaptation, from Darwins famous finches on the
    Galapagos islands, whose variations in bill and beak type were an indicator of the
    different foodstuffs they had adapted to eat in competition with one another, to
    the peppered moth in British industrial cities, a melanism or darker variation on
    the traditional species though to have developed to blend in with the blackened
    surfaces caused by heavy industry in those areas. Adaptation proves in these
    examples to be a far from neutral, indeed highly active, mode of being, far
    removed from the unimaginative act of imitation, copying, or repetition that it is

    sometimes presented as being by literature and film critics obsessed with claims
    to originality.
    (Julie Sanders: Adaptation and Appropriation. Routledge: London and New York,
    2006, p. 24).

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