ENGL 122

Fall 2020 All Classes

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Swords, Sorcery & Sex: The Middle Ages in Popular Culture

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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 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

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ENGL 122 class schedule data for fall 2020
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	71512	Online Online	C C	2:00PM -3:50PM 2:00PM -4:50PM	W M	n.a. n.a.	Trilling, R Trilling, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/20-12/09/20 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: Many of us first encounter the Middle Ages through film: from Robin Hood to Tristan and Isolde, The Lion in Winter to Game of Thrones, movies about the Middle Ages enchant and excite us. In this course, we will survey a wide range of films about the Middle Ages, placing them in conversation with medieval source material, historical contexts, and contemporary political issues. Why does Games of Thrones appeal to such a wide audience? What makes the legends of Robin Hood and King Arthur so enduring across historical periods and narrative formats? How does experiencing these stories through film differ from experiencing them through poems, plays, or novels?