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 106-038 Medievalism in Contemporary Culture

Note

Formerly available as 106-255/355. Students who have completed 106-255/355 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

2nd and 3rd year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Stephanie Trigg

Prerequisites

Usually 25 points of first year English, see Prerequisites

Semester

Not Offered (view timetable)

Contact

A 1-hour lecture per week and nine 2-hour tutorials scheduled across the semester with occasional film screenings

Subject Description

This subject interrogates the persistent popularity of medieval themes, and stories in contemporary film, fiction, and children's literature. It will consider some medieval narratives and their later re-wordings, which have a tradition of revisionary re-writing 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 representations.

Assessment

Written work totalling 4000 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.
  • Film:, The Name of the Rose.
  • Film:, The Navigator.
  • Film:, Excalibur.
  • Film:, Braveheart.
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