The course Translating and adapting English literary texts: Ideology, culture and power deals with the translation and adaptation of English literary texts in relation to their context of production and reception. In this sense, critics such as Bassnett or Lefevere led the way for a line of research which has given notable fruits by analysing the ideological, political, commercial and cultural reasons which have historically conditioned the selection of certain literary texts to be translated, as well as the need or convenience of using mechanisms of adaptation aimed at facilitating the continued existence of some texts in new contexts.