Subject
Miguel de Cervantes, cinema, Louise D’Arcens, Clint Eastwood, fiction, film, William Morris, NSW, New South Wales, poetry, Alfred Tennyson, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, literature, university, universities
Description
An undergraduate unit taught by Louise D’Arcens at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales. The unit begins with literature from the medieval period, including texts by Malory, Marie de France, the Gawain poet and Troubadours, Cervantes’ early seventeenth-century satire of the medieval period ‘Don Quixote’, and the nineteenth-century medievalism of Tennyson and Morris. After considering modern romance fiction, the unit concludes with the Clint Eastwood film ‘Unforgiven’, asking if any chivalric or courtly ideals have been transplanted to the American frontier.