This course provides an overview of literature in English through the larger prism of different types of transformations:

• “Translations” of canonical texts into different time/place iterations, e.g.: Grendel, Gardner’s 20^th century rewriting of 8^th century Beowulf; Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys’ Caribbean prism for Jane Eyre; Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses echoing Milton’s Paradise Lost
• Adaptations of text into other media (film, music, etc.)
• Literary echoes and crossings between English & other literatures
• Fanfiction and the blurring of literary borders.
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• The course focuses on improving the 5
  competencies in English (oral/written
  comprehension & production; oral interaction) by
  providing students with:
•  a general understanding of the history of English literature and canonic texts
   a grasp of the linguistic transformations from Old to Modern English
   some familiarity with English literature by non-British writers
   the ability to use more complex grammatical and phonetic structures