Frame Investigating How Adaptation WorksFreshman English框架研究如何适应工程英文.doc

Frame: Adaptations Rationale: This anthology contains many texts that are in meaningful, intertextual conversation with other texts --whether it be through adaptation, appropriation, allusion, or sampling. We find that it is fruitful for students to go beyond a comparison of two such texts and use the interfaces between those texts to critically investigate how adaptation works and what it means for texts to rewrite, repeat, reference, or speak about another text. Below you will find a list of texts from the anthology that are adapting or have been adapted by another text. While the anthology contains ample texts to do this work, we have also listed outside, supplemental texts that work well with the anthology texts. Texts we recommend for this frame Alexie, Sherman. “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel” (1996) Atwood, Margaret. “Bluebeard’s Egg” (1983) Borges, Jorge Luis. “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” (1939) de Beaumont, Jeanne-Marie LePrince. “Beauty and the Beast” (1756) Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. “Fitcher’s Bird” (1812) Shakespeare, William. Othello the Moor of Venice (1604) Texts featured in example assignments below Atwood, Margaret. “Bluebeard’s Egg” (1983) de Beaumont, Jeanne-Marie LePrince. “Beauty and the Beast” (1756) Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. “Fitcher’s Bird” (1812) Example Assignment 1 from Patti Taylor Texts from anthology de Beaumont, Jeanne-Marie LePrince. “Beauty and the Beast” (1756) Supplemental Texts Carter, Angela. “The Tiger’s Bride” (1979) Recommended length: 6-8 pages Intellectual task of the assignment Your goal in this assignment is to determine what you think Carter is doing by adapting “Beauty and the Beast.” Identify an element or aspect that was changed when Carter adapted the story that you want to focus on, then formulate a compelling question emerging from a difference between the two texts that you can pursue with close textual analysis. You might consider how the element you chose was change