A New Model for Reading Adaptation: The Textus, with a Brief Case Study of Adaptations Recreating the Lives of C.S. Lewis.

Nicholson, William; C.S. Lewis: Through the Shadowlands (TV program); Television film; Lewis, C. S., 1898-1963; Cancer

The authors discusses textus as a system of reading adaptation by exploring the threads added to the construction in the order of his encounter with texts including William Nicholson's television film "C.S. Lewis: Through the Shadowlands," Nicholson's film "Shadowlands" and his stage adaptation "Shadowlands." Topics include American author Clive Staples Lewis, the texts' rendering of Lewis losing his wife to cancer, and the hierarchical structure used in the discourse of adaptation studies