Television Series as Literature

Introduction.- Block 1: TV Series as Literature in Theory.- Adapting Balzic for Television: Literariness and Authorial Identity on the Small Screen.- The Poetics of Screenwriting: Approaching the Teleplay from a Literary Perspective.- From Frenetic to Vivid: Phenomenological Reading to Immersive Television Narratives.- Literary Remediations of The Contemporary Television Series - From the Familiar to Storyttelling Originals.- The Literary in Television, or Why Should We Teach TV Series in Literature Departments.- Toward "Sphere Theory": Redefining the Narrative Genres of the Novel and the TV Drama Series.- The Academic Canonization of Media and Its Connections to Industry.- Literary Value and the Case of the Teleserye in the Philippines.- Block 2: Television Literature as Literature in Pratice.- "It's the Beauty that Hurts the Most": Rectify as Televisual Novel.- Angry Old Men? Reading ITV'S Morse Through the Lends of the Campus Novel.- "Read a Fucking Book!": Healing Trauma Through Reading in Boardwalk Empire.- Not Exactly Shakespeare? Shakespeare'S Plays, Ben Elton's Upstart Crow and the Problem of Literature on Television.- A Shift in Storytelling: Television Series over the Garden Wall as a Literary Reconstruction of Dante'S Divine Comedy.- Breaking Bad: Reading Freedom Through the Fragility of Private Space.- Rat Phones, Alligators, Lemon Pepper Wet: The Poetic Absurd of Atlanta.- Reading a Police Procedural as a Lyrical Text.- Audible Paratexts: Song Lyrics in Television Series.- Adult Fables in the Digital Age: A Literary Approach to Black Mirror.- "Literature/Film/Mad Men".- 'Married at First Sight': A TV Literature Experiment.

Reto Winckler is an Associate Research Fellow at South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China. He received his PhD in English Literature from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research revolves around Shakespeare's plays and their multimedial afterlives, concentrating on issues of madness and folly, ordinary language philosophy, and the adaptation of Shakespeare in contemporary television series and digital media. His articles have been published in Shakespeare, Adaptation, Cahiers E lisabe thains, The Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, and elsewhere


Víctor Huertas-Martín is an Assistant Lecturer at the Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació of the Universitat de Valéncia, Spain. He received his PhD in English Literature at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in 2017. Besides the hybridity of theatrical and filmic languages in TV Shakespeares, his research focuses on Serial Shakespeares, as well as space in Shakespearean performance. Currently, he is preparing, annotating and editing the first Spanish translation of Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam. His work has been published in Atlantis, Shakespeare Bulletin, Sederi Yearbook, Cahiers Élisabéthains, Literature/Film Quarterly, and in Eating Shakespeare: Cultural Anthropophagy as Methodology (Arden, 2019), amongst others.