ABSTRACT
Like “fairy tale,” adaptation is pervasive and not easily definable, for reasons that in both cases have to do with their complex intertextuality. It is thus productive to think through how focusing on “fairy-tale adaptations” raises questions of multimediality that impact both adaptation and fairy-tale studies and how understanding adaptation in relation to cultural change informs the fairy-tale web as framework. The chapter discusses defining adaptation, relating it to translation and appropriation, including the visual as part of fairy-tale multimediality, and reading adaptations’ transformative potential in a hypertextual web.
