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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : English

106-255/355 Medievalism in Contemporary Culture

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Stephanie Trigg

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week with occasional film screenings

Subject Description:

This subject interrogates the persistent popularity of medieval themes, settings and stories in contemporary film, fiction, and children's literature. It will consider two medieval narratives which have a tradition of revisionary re-writing (the legends of King Arthur and of Robin Hood), as well as modern 'inventions' of the medieval. Through a study of the major patterns in the re-invention of medieval literature, students will be encouraged to think about what these texts reveal about the relations of modernity and post-modernity with the medieval past, and the social and political meaning of the medieval in contemporary fiction.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

  • M Z Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
  • S Cooper, The Dark is Rising
  • Malory, Morte Arthure
  • E Peters, a Cadfael mystery
  • T H White, The Sword in the Stone
  • Films:, The Name of the Rose
  • , The Navigator
  • , Excalibur
  • , Braveheart
  • , Robin and Marion
  • , Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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