Discord Consensus

The story is told again, but differently, and to a new audience. By making
it accessible for a new generation of recipients, the adaptations give life
to the original, or, as Gérard Genette puts it, ‘constantly relaunch the old
works into a new circuit of meaning’. 29
The ‘Lion’ keeps changing, and so do the interpretations. This is
what keeps him alive. Or, as Hutcheon puts it: adaptation can keep a
work in life, ‘giving it an afterlife it would never have had otherwise’. 30
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DISCORD AND CONSENSUS IN THE LOW COUNTRIES, 1700–​2000