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Stories into song: theory and co-creative practice of adapting literary fiction into pop and rock songs (2024)
Journal Article
Bentley, N., & Peacock, J. (in press). Stories into song: theory and co-creative practice of adapting literary fiction into pop and rock songs. Adaptation, 18(1), Article apae025. https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apae025

Despite the many pop and rock songs adapted from literary texts, there has been little scholarship on the theory and practice of adapting novels and short stories into short-form musical works. This article is part of a British Academy-funded pilot p... Read More about Stories into song: theory and co-creative practice of adapting literary fiction into pop and rock songs.

The Neo-mythological Novel: Re-writing the Epic in Contemporary British Fiction (2024)
Book Chapter
Bentley, N. (2024). The Neo-mythological Novel: Re-writing the Epic in Contemporary British Fiction. In The 2010s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction (263-290). Bloomsbury Publishing

This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to the contexts in which it was written and received in order to examine and explain contemporary trends, such as the rise of a new working-class fiction, the ongoing development of separate natio... Read More about The Neo-mythological Novel: Re-writing the Epic in Contemporary British Fiction.