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 106-255 Medievalism in Contemporary Culture

Note

Available as 106-355 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Stephanie Trigg

Semester

2

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 Morbid Taste for Bones.
  • T H White, The Sword in the Stone.
  • Film:, The Name of the Rose.
  • Film:, The Navigator.
  • Film:, Excalibur.
  • Film:, Braveheart.
  • Film:, Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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