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- ↑ For a critique of the literary roots of adaptation studies and its attendant methodologies, see Simone Murray, "Materializing Adaptation Studies: the Adaptation Industry". Literature/Film QuarterlyVol. 36, No. 1 (2008), pp. 4-20
- ↑ Voigts, Eckart. "Memes and Recombinant Appropriation: Remix, Mashup, Parody" in Thomas Leitch (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies. Oxford: OUP, 2017.
- ↑ "An Essay on Criticism" lines 133-140
