Flogging Fidelity: In Defense of the (Un)Dead Horse

Abstract

While decades of criticism have echoed Dudley Andrew's 1980 call for an end to fidelity discourse, more recent criticism (including by Andrew himself, in 2011) is reconsidering fidelity's usefulness. This article posits a post-millennial resurgence in fidelity criticism in order to make a (final?) recuperative claim for fidelity as one essential tool in the intertextual toolbox of adaptation studies.