“What’s in a Name?” Authorship as (Micro)Genre in the Paratext of the Hogarth Shakespeare Project

The novels commissioned and published as part of the Hogarth Shakespeare project involve a series of recontextualisations of Shakespeare’s work, not only from the genre of drama to that of prose or a range of established subgenres, but the choice of author to adapt it may also serve to locate the ad...

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Main Author: Eli Løfaldli
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Language:English
Published: Université de Bourgogne 2022-06-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/5053
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description The novels commissioned and published as part of the Hogarth Shakespeare project involve a series of recontextualisations of Shakespeare’s work, not only from the genre of drama to that of prose or a range of established subgenres, but the choice of author to adapt it may also serve to locate the adaptation in a very specific microgenre defined by the connotations engendered by the modern author’s oeuvre – and frame its reception accordingly. The article discusses how this process finds expression in the Hogarth Shakespeare project paratexts, which are seen as ways of making creative use of the popular conceptions of the modern authors evoked by their very names to reframe, revise and re-energise Shakespeare’s work for new audiences, in part through the specific form of (micro)generic recontextualisation that they bring about.
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spelling doaj-art-4d4e8a51104b4424b37aecff342fe99a2025-08-20T02:26:26ZengUniversité de BourgogneInterfaces2647-67542022-06-014710.4000/interfaces.5053“What’s in a Name?” Authorship as (Micro)Genre in the Paratext of the Hogarth Shakespeare ProjectEli LøfaldliThe novels commissioned and published as part of the Hogarth Shakespeare project involve a series of recontextualisations of Shakespeare’s work, not only from the genre of drama to that of prose or a range of established subgenres, but the choice of author to adapt it may also serve to locate the adaptation in a very specific microgenre defined by the connotations engendered by the modern author’s oeuvre – and frame its reception accordingly. The article discusses how this process finds expression in the Hogarth Shakespeare project paratexts, which are seen as ways of making creative use of the popular conceptions of the modern authors evoked by their very names to reframe, revise and re-energise Shakespeare’s work for new audiences, in part through the specific form of (micro)generic recontextualisation that they bring about.https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/5053adaptationgenregeneric recontextualisationmicrogenreparatextHogarth Shakespeare project
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“What’s in a Name?” Authorship as (Micro)Genre in the Paratext of the Hogarth Shakespeare Project
Interfaces
adaptation
genre
generic recontextualisation
microgenre
paratext
Hogarth Shakespeare project
title “What’s in a Name?” Authorship as (Micro)Genre in the Paratext of the Hogarth Shakespeare Project
title_full “What’s in a Name?” Authorship as (Micro)Genre in the Paratext of the Hogarth Shakespeare Project
title_fullStr “What’s in a Name?” Authorship as (Micro)Genre in the Paratext of the Hogarth Shakespeare Project
title_full_unstemmed “What’s in a Name?” Authorship as (Micro)Genre in the Paratext of the Hogarth Shakespeare Project
title_short “What’s in a Name?” Authorship as (Micro)Genre in the Paratext of the Hogarth Shakespeare Project
title_sort what s in a name authorship as micro genre in the paratext of the hogarth shakespeare project
topic adaptation
genre
generic recontextualisation
microgenre
paratext
Hogarth Shakespeare project
url https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/5053
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