... Woolf's Orlando and her own, Potter states, "So I made various changes with my heart in my mouth, as one does when dealing with a great classic of literature. I hope we"re being true to the spirit of the book if not to the letter of it." As with any literary adaptation, Potter's ... book They were not familiar with the contested meanings critics have seen in Orlando, because it is not even a minor "classic" in England, or they would not have dared to desecrate it." The irony in this is that both invoke the same, common understanding of the ... "classic" to legitimate radically opposed ...

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