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Contemporary Adaptations of Oliver Twist

Adaptation

    1. The action or process of adapting, fitting, or suiting one thing to another.

2. The process of modifying a thing so as to suit new conditions: as, the modification of a piece of music to suit a different instrument or different purpose; the alteration of a dramatic composition to suit a different audience; the alteration of form which a word of one language often undergoes to make it fit the etymological or phonetic system of another” (OED on-line)

 

                                 

Oliver Twist

by

Charles Dickens

 

Fingersmith

by

Sarah Waters

     

        

   

 

Cheryl Brickner
and
Karen Campos

English Graduate Students of UWSP 2008

 

              Last Updated 12/15/2008