Sex, Power, and Chivalry – Medieval to Modern Literature
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
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.
D'Arcens, Louise
University of Wollongong
University of Wollongong
July 2010
Louise D’Arcens, University of Wollongong
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Literature and Culture: Representations of the Medieval
Arthur, Arthurian, King Arthur, Arts and Crafts Movement, Marion Zimmer Bradley, cinema, Umberto Eco, film, gothic, Macquarie University, William Morris, online, Open Universities Australia, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, VIC, Victoria, Victorian medievalism
A fully online second-year undergraduate unit offered by Macquarie University through Open Universities Australia. The unit covers various aspects of medievalism, including William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Victoria, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Victorian medievalism, Marion Zimmer Bradley’s reimaging of the Arthurian legend ‘The Mists of Avalon’, and ‘The Name of the Rose’, the medieval detective novel by Umberto Eco. The unit also covers the representation of the medieval period in film.
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<a href="http://www.open.edu.au/public/courses-and-units/arts/unit-eng211-2011" target="_blank">http://www.open.edu.au/public/courses-and-units/arts/unit-eng211-2011</a>
Macquarie University, Open Universities Australia
4 July 2011
Macquarie University, Open Universities Australia
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