University of Tehran Research in Contemporary World Literature 2588-4131 25 1 2020 08 22 Translation: A Kind of Adaptation (A Case study: Burton’s Movie Adaptation of Alice in Wonderland Novel) Translation: A Kind of Adaptation (A Case study: Burton’s Movie Adaptation of Alice in Wonderland Novel) 159 182 77632 10.22059/jor.2018.252417.1650 FA Fateme Zand Instructor, Translation Studies, Narjes University, Rafsanjan, Kerman, Iran Afsaneh Hasanzadeh Dastjerdi Assistant Professor, Persian Langauage and Literature, Narjes University, Rafsanjan, Kerman, Iran Fatemeh Zahra Nazari Robati Instructor, Translation Studies, Narjes University, Rafsanjan, Kerman, Iran Journal Article 2018 02 10 Adaptation is a new area in intertextual literary studies. The subject of this area is examining the ways of translating a text and changing it into other medias. The novel Alice in Wonderland written by Lewis Carroll has been the subject of many cinematic adaptations. The purpose of the present study is to examine the differences between Carroll’s novel and Burton’s adapted film Alice in Wonderland. For this purpose, drawing upon Cahir’s viewpoint about types of cinematic adaptations from literary text as a kind of translation and Corrigan’s definition of movie’s faithfulness to literary work, the plot, characters and four sections of the novel and the movie were compared and the changes were examined. It was shown that Burton’s cinematic adaptation of this novel can be taken as a traditional translation, in which characters, time, place, and the main plot of the story are kept but the added secondary plots to the story and continuous returns to the past present new dimensions and features of Alice’s character to the receiver. Adaptation is a new area in intertextual literary studies. The subject of this area is examining the ways of translating a text and changing it into other medias. The novel Alice in Wonderland written by Lewis Carroll has been the subject of many cinematic adaptations. The purpose of the present study is to examine the differences between Carroll’s novel and Burton’s adapted film Alice in Wonderland. For this purpose, drawing upon Cahir’s viewpoint about types of cinematic adaptations from literary text as a kind of translation and Corrigan’s definition of movie’s faithfulness to literary work, the plot, characters and four sections of the novel and the movie were compared and the changes were examined. It was shown that Burton’s cinematic adaptation of this novel can be taken as a traditional translation, in which characters, time, place, and the main plot of the story are kept but the added secondary plots to the story and continuous returns to the past present new dimensions and features of Alice’s character to the receiver.

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