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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.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Stephanie Trigg

Prerequisites

Usually 25 points of First Year English, see Prerequisites.

Semester

2 (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 which inspire a tradition of revisionary re-writing, as well as modern 'inventions' of the medieval in a range of cultural forms. 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 postmodernity with the medieval past, and the social and political meaning of the medieval in contemporary representations.

Assessment

Written work totalling 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts

Films: The Name of the Rose

  • M Z Bradley, The Mists of Avalon.
  • P Collins (ed), Fantastic Worlds.
  • Malory, King Arthur and His Knights. Oxford.
  • C Robb, The Apothecary Rose.
  • The Navigator.
  • Excalibur.
  • Braveheart.
  • Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves.
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