Redux (literary Term)
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Redux is a
postpositive adjective A postpositive adjective or postnominal adjective is an adjective that is placed after the noun or pronoun that it modifies, as in noun phrases such as ''attorney general'', ''queen regnant'', or ''all matters financial''. This contrasts with prepo ...
meaning 'brought back, restored' (from
Latin Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...
, 'to bring back') used in literature, film and video game titles.


History

Works of literature using the word in the title include
John Dryden John Dryden (; – ) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Poet Laureate. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration (En ...
's '' Astraea Redux'' (1662), "a poem on the happy restoration and return of His Sacred Majesty";
Anthony Trollope Anthony Trollope ( ; 24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among the best-known of his 47 novels are two series of six novels each collectively known as the ''Chronicles of Barsetshire ...
's ''
Phineas Redux ''Phineas Redux'' is a novel by Anthony Trollope, first published between 1873 and 1874 as a serial in '' The Graphic''. It is the fourth of the " Palliser" series of novels and is a sequel to the second book of the series, '' Phineas Finn''. ...
'' (1873), the sequel to ''
Phineas Finn ''Phineas Finn'' is a novel by Anthony Trollope and the name of its leading character. The novel was first published as a monthly serial from 1867 to 1868 and issued in book form in 1869. It is the second of the " Palliser" series of novels. It ...
'' (1867); and
John Updike John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tar ...
's '' Rabbit Redux'' (1971), the second in his sequence of novels about the character Rabbit Angstrom. ''Rabbit Redux'' led to a return in the popularity of the word ''redux'' and, in '' Rabbit at Rest'' (1990), Rabbit Angstrom notices "a story ... in the Sarasota paper a week or so ago, headlined Circus Redux. He hates that word, you see it everywhere, and he doesn't know how to pronounce it. Like arbitrageur and
perestroika ''Perestroika'' ( ; rus, перестройка, r=perestrojka, p=pʲɪrʲɪˈstrojkə, a=ru-perestroika.ogg, links=no) was a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s, widely associ ...
."''Rabbit at Rest'', p.50 The term has been adopted by filmmakers to denote a new interpretation of an existing work by the restoration of previously removed material. For example '' Apocalypse Now Redux'', which
Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford Coppola ( ; born April 7, 1939) is an American filmmaker. He is considered one of the leading figures of the New Hollywood and one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. List of awards and nominations received by Francis Ford Coppo ...
released in 2001, re-editing and extending his original 1979 movie. The term has also been used by music producers to describe what is more often referred to as a
remix A remix, also sometimes called reorchestration or rework, is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item. A song, piece of artwork, book, poem, or photograph ca ...
or
remaster A remaster is a change in the sound or image quality of previously created forms of media, whether Mastering (audio), audiophonic, Cinematography, cinematic, or Videography, videographic. The resulting product is said to be remastered. The term ...
.


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