从论文到舞台：小说的新生命？畅销书在当代中国的改编

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Kervan Pub Date : 2019-10-15 DOI:10.13135/1825-263X/3616

Barbara Leonesi

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本文以获奖的中国当代小说为研究对象，研究了日益普遍的小说舞台化现象。第一部分提供了第二部分所采用的理论方法，即王安忆小说《长恨歌》和余华小说《活着》的舞台改编两个案例研究。从文本之间的“横向关系”的角度出发（Hutcheon 2013），对改编过程的分析远离了忠实/不忠话语，以考察其能够产生的呼应版本（跨媒体、跨语言等）的网络。这个网络比所谓的垂直层次结构更有趣。尽管如此，并不是每个版本都是一个能够独立于来源的文本：分析表明，今天的跨媒体改编现象是由一个文化产业培育的，该产业旨在利用畅销获奖小说的所有利润。需要充分考虑该行业在适应过程中发挥的作用。

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From the Paper to the Stage: a New Life for Novels? The Adaptation of Bestsellers in Contemporary China

This paper studies the evermore widespread phenomenon of the adaptation of novels for the stage, focusing on prizewinning contemporary Chinese novels. The first part provides the theoretical approach that is adopted in the second part, where two cases studies are discussed, i.e the stage adaptation of the novel Song of Everlasting Sorrow by Wang Anyi and of the novel To Live by Yu Hua. Starting from the perspective of “horizontal relations” among texts (Hutcheon 2013), the analysis of the adaptation process takes its distance from the fidelity/infidelity discourse, in order to investigate the network of echoing versions (trans-media, trans-language, etc) it is able to produce. This network is much more interesting to explore than supposed vertical hierarchies. Nevertheless, not every version is a text able to live independently from its source: the analysis shows that today's phenomenon of trans-media adaptation is fostered by a cultural industry that aims at exploiting all profits from a best-selling prizewinning novel. The role played by this industry in the adaptation process needs to be fully considered.

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Kervan Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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0.30

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审稿时长

18 weeks

期刊介绍： The journal has three main aims. First of all, it aims at encouraging interdisciplinary research on Asia and Africa, maintaining high research standards. Second, by providing a global forum for Asian and African scholars, it promotes dialogue between the global academic community and civil society, emphasizing patterns and tendencies that go beyond national borders and are globally relevant. The third aim for a specialized academic journal is to widen the opportunities for publishing worthy scholarly studies, to stimulate debate, to create an ideal agora where ideas and research results can be compared and contrasted. Another challenge is to combine a scientific approach and the interest for cultural debate, artistic production, biographic narrative, etcetera. This journal wants to be original (even hybrid) also in its structure, where academic rigor should not hinder access to the vitality of experience and of artistic and cultural production.