Debate on ‘A Theory of Adaptation’

Book City Institute will hold a meeting to review and debate “A Theory of Adaptation,” a 2006 analytical book with a critical overview of the process adaptation, written by Canadian literary critic and theoretician Linda Hutcheon.
Persian translation of “A Theory of Adaptation” by Mahsa Khodakarami is released by Markaz Publications in Tehran. The translator will attend the meeting on May 29, 4:30 pm at the Cultural Center of the institute located on the corner of Alley 3, Ahmad Qasir Street, north of Beheshti Avenue.
Other attendants of the meeting are writer, translator, literary critic and theoretician Amir-Ali Nojoumian; and art researcher Mohammad-Jafar Yousefian who specializes in cinema and performing art, Book City reported on its Persian website (bookcity.org).
“A Theory of Adaptation” explores the process of development of creative adaptation, and argues that the practice of adapting is central to the story-telling imagination.