Educational guide 2024_25
Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución
Máster Universitario en Estudios Ingleses Avanzados y sus Aplicaciones
 Asignaturas
  Manifestaciones Artísticas y Literarias de los Países de Habla Inglesa
   Contenidos
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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