ENGL 122

fall 2019
 
All Classes
Swords, Sorcery & Sex: The Middle Ages in Popular Culture

Credit: 3 hours.

Explores the use of medievalism in contemporary popular culture. Instructors may draw from film, television, music, fiction, graphic novels, gaming, and other sources, and they approach the material from a variety of cultural, historical, and aesthetic traditions. The goal of the course will be to understand how the medieval periods of world cultures have been reinvented in modern times, and how modernity has been constructed in relation and in opposition to the medieval imaginary.

Same as MDVL 122.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2019 for:

  • Humanities – Lit & Arts
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