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Linda Hutcheon: Theory of Adaption

Introduction

Born in 1947, Linda Hutcheon has grown up to be part of the Department of English and Comparative Literature Professor at the University of Toronto. She has been at this University teaching English since 1988. Winning the 117th election for President of the Modern Language Association in 2002 led Hutcheon to be the first Canadian woman to have this position. She is a highly respected and well known literary theorist that with the help of her husband Micheal Hutcheon, have published many novels on several different topic areas. She is an award winning theorist, mostly known for her theories in Postmodernism and Feminism.

Linda Hutcheon’s Theories

She is a theorist that has released 12 novels on the behalf of the theories on feminism and postmodernism. The novel //The Canadian Postmodern: A Study of Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction// is a novel that brings out the true colors in all the areas of theory that she covers. She talks about how feminism was big during modern and postmodern times when women those “pin-up bathing beauties.” This also relates to her theories in the Opera and the art to describe how these women were defined as the art of the Opera.

When talking about Feminism, Hutcheon believes that it is different for each part of the world. For example, due to the intellectual factor, cultural and legal differences, she believes that the status of Canada is much higher of a standard then the U.S or even Britain. However, she feels as though with the help of France, Britain, and the U.S, the intellectual standards are as high as they are which help Canada be the top standards for all of these categories. Along with feminism, Hutcheon mentions parody quite a few times, while also having a couple of novels out on this topic. When she says parody mixed with feminism, she says that women go against the dominate culture and somewhat mimic the speech. With this, she is saying to exaggerate or or reconstruct how you say something in regards to the dominance using a sense of values. For example, the side of Hutcheon that is the "art critic" and "Opera critic" sees this view of being dramatic and using their own person creates this art.

When looking at her Postmodern theory, she takes a look at many different viewpoints such as, queer theory and postcolonial theory. Without looking at either of these two theories, Feminism does not quite exist to its fullest. Queer theory is a theory that has to do with sexuality and gender. Postcolonial theory is looking back into the history of colonial times, which relate to the dominance and power of certain people and putting looking at it from a more recent time. 

Putting all of the pieces together to really figure out how much work Linda Hutcheon has put into her theories, she looks at Feminism in regards to Queer theory, Postcolonial theory, Colonial times, and Postmodernism. She has been extremely successful in her theories due to her accuracy and knowledge of the topic she studies so much.  ﻿[] ﻿ Linda Hutcheon on the topic of Adaptation.

Linda Hutcheon’s Works:

-Theory of Adaption -A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction -A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms -Opera: Desire, Disease, Death (Texts and Contexts -The Politics of Postmodernism (New Accents) -Bodily Charm: Living Opera (Abraham Lincoln Lecture) -Opera: The Art of Dying (Convergences) -Irony's Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony -Narcissistic Narrative: The Metafictional Paradox -The Canadian Postmodern: A Study of Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction (Studies in Canadian literature) -Formalism and the Freudian Aesthetic: The Example of Charles Mauron <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">-Splitting Images: Contemporary Canadian Ironies (Studies in Canadian Literature)

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