Playing Pilgrims: Adapting Bunyan for Children

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 18; p. 78
• Main Author: Murray, Shannon
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2014
• Subjects: Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888); American literature; British & Irish literature; Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Children; English literature

Expanding on Hutcheon's discussion of adaptation, Julie Sanders makes a distinction between adaptation and appropriation: while adaptation signals its origins and depends on its relationship with the original, appropriation is a more subversive act, breaking away from the original to form a new...