In the Zambreno article she talks about the legend of King Arthur being retold in many forms. King Arthur is the most used story in history, there are hints of it in everything we see in popular entertainment, from serious drama, to super-hero comics and movies.
Also in the article she talks about certain rhetorical tool writers use to write a story. The first one is mutability/plasticity, this refers to the ability to take a story and reshape it how you see fit. Authors have taken parts of the King Arthur story and have change it into something of their own. Whether they make it set in the modern day or add new characters this demonstrates mutability/plasticity.
The next tool is piecemeal. This is when an author takes pieces of the story and moves them around or writes only using certain parts of the story that they like. An example of this is when an author likes the idea of a young Arthur, so he take that piece of the story and writes about that.
The next tool is windows of opportunity. This is when there are gaps in a story and another author makes his own story to fill the gap. This happens all the time in modern stories, after a story is told they always want to make a prequel, utilizing the window of opportunity from a characters past.
The final tool is open-ended closure. This is when a story is done but there are hints that there is going to be more. This tool is used a lot now a days, there are hardly any stories that stand alone anymore. A good example of this is Lord of the rings, there was only one book The Hobbit, The Hobbit was an open ended story allowing Tolkien to write a whole trilogy after it.
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