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106-038 Medievalism in Contemporary Culture | |
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Note | Formerly available as 106-255/355. Students who have completed 106-255 or 106-355 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
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 | Thirty hours of lectures and tutorials scheduled across the semester |
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 | Class participation, and written work totalling 4000 words. |
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