ENG1131: Adaptive Literature

Instructor: Katherine Shaeffer

This Writing Through Media section will be focused around adaptation in its various forms. We will look at the multiple incarnations of different texts across different media, and decide, as a class, what works, what doesn't, and what different forms of presentation and representation can do to a story, poem, film, comic, etc.

There will be a creative component to this course.

Required Texts

• Batschelet, Margaret W. XHTML/CSS Basics for Web Writers. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.
• Desmond, John and Peter Hawkes. Adaptation: Studying Film and Literature. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
• Madden, Matt. 99 Ways to Tell a Story. New York: Chamberlain Brothers, 2005.
• McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1994
• Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. New York: Grove Press, 1967.

The above books can be purchased at the University bookstore.

• Queneau, Raymond. Exercises in Style. Trans. Barbara Wright. New York: New Directions, 1981.
• Shakespeare's Hamlet, any edition.