Main Article Content
Abstract
For a long time, the discipline of adaptation studies has not cared to make its way across the threshold of literature – film dichotomy, turning a blind eye to include the other mediums like drama, music, video games and graphic novels for the critical discourse and their assimilation in adaptation studies. This scholarly orthodoxy has resulted in either flawed or biased intellection for the products of adaptation, wherein they are always analyzed in terms of fidelity to the source text and are viewed as inferior or reductive.
However, this paper analyzes the process of adaptation in the graphic novel adaptations of canonical texts as epistemological transformations from one medium to another, involving intertextual webs, intermediality and unique semantic filtrations. Also, how, while transgressing the boundaries of one media to another enables the adapted text to have a discursive relationship with the literary canon ad enrich the scholarly discourse of adaptation studies. This paper discusses how the adaptation of canonical texts assists in achieving new meaning and allows for relooking at the traditional scholarly positions. For this purpose this paper takes the graphic novel adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s seminal work, Jane Eyre, as a reference.