Guia docente 2024_25
Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución
Máster Universitario en Estudos Ingleses Avanzados e as súas Aplicacións
 Materias
  Manifestacións Artísticas e Literarias dos Países de Fala Inglesa
   Contidos
Tema Subtema
1. Introduction. "Like all great myths of old"

1.1. Romance and Arthurian Literature. Fundamentals.
1.2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Fusion, topics, symbols, themes, structure.
1.3. Malory as the Arthurian MCU? Plots and Subplots.
1.4. The Arthurian Story as a Folklore Pattern: Masterplots and Heroic Journeys.
2. (Sub)versions of the (Neo)medieval (Filmic) Text. A threefold case-study. 2.1. “Let me tell you instead a new tale”: David Lowery’s The Green Knight (2021)
2.2. Modernizing Arthurian Symbols for the End-of-the-Millenium Audience: Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King (1991)
2.3. “Holding a mirror up to society”: Geoffrey Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale through Andy de Emmony’s BBC Canterbury Tales Retold – The Wife of Bath (2004).


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