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Analogy

One of three types of adaptation, according to Wagner, an analogy represents "a fairly considerable departure for the sake of making another work of art": Coppola's Apocalypse Now, which updates Conrad's Heart of Darkness to the Vietnam War, transcends mere transposition of, or commentary on, the original.

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