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  • Feeling Gawain, or What I Learned Teaching Adaptation Today

    Feeling Gawain, or What I Learned Teaching Adaptation Today

    Author: Brooke Allan CarlsonPeer-Reviewers: Kathryn McClain and James FleuryWebsite Developer: Kristen Figgins I teach a 200-level literature survey of British literature, from the beginning to the Age of Enlightenment. I have students read “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” a fourteenth-century poem by the anonymous Pearl Poet. In this survey, students start by…

  • Using Nineteen Eighty-Four to Adapt Experience in the Classroom

    Using Nineteen Eighty-Four to Adapt Experience in the Classroom

    Author: Matthew Ari Elfenbein, Ph.D.Peer-Reviewers: Kathryn McClain and James FleuryWebsite Developer: Kristen Figgins Course: “Film Criticism” at Florida Atlantic University  What I learned teaching adaptation today is that students can deeply engage with film adaptations like Nineteen Eighty-Four (Michael Radford, 1984) even without prior knowledge of the source material. The film’s bleak portrayal of oppression…