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Contemporary British Fiction: Cool Britannia and After

Contemporary British Fiction: Cool Britannia and After. British Literature, Culture, and Society from the 1990s to the Present: Session Three. Agenda. Culture and media BA-projects Diana and ”Diana” Rushdie’s ”Diana” in The Ground Beneath Her Feet

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Contemporary British Fiction: Cool Britannia and After

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  1. Contemporary British Fiction: Cool Britannia and After British Literature, Culture, and Society from the 1990s to the Present: Session Three

  2. Agenda • Culture and media BA-projects • Diana and ”Diana” • Rushdie’s ”Diana” in The Ground Beneath Her Feet • U2, ”The Ground Beneath Her Feet” Lyrics and Video

  3. Culture and media BA-projects • Young British Artists • BritPop • Heritage film

  4. Young British Artists • Conceptualism • Art and science in Damien Hirst • Art and commoditiy in Damien Hirst • Public and private in Tracey Emin

  5. BritPop • Nation, class, gender, and subjectivity in Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Spice Girls • Lyrics • Music videos

  6. Heritage film • Images of England in P&P adaptations

  7. Diana and ”Diana” • Icon and iconographic product (Kear & Steinberg 1999: 7-8 • Diana as icon and / or iconographic construct.

  8. The Mother of • God of • Tenderness

  9. William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) - The Madonna of the Roses (1903).

  10. Madonna, Like a Virgin

  11. Engagement photograph

  12. Diana, Princess of Wales

  13. Diana and ”Diana” • Narratives (Lyotard) • Grand / master narratives: liberalism, marxism, democracy, christianity, science • Little narratives: local justifications, personal stories (what makes sense for me, now) • __________________________________ • Cultural narratives: shared stories (eg. Victimization, betrayal, emancipation)

  14. Stella Vine • 2003

  15. Rushdie’s ”Diana” in The Ground Beneath Her Feet • How does the first chapter indicate that it’s somehow about ”Diana”? • What is the point of the intertextual references to the story of Orpheus and Eurydice? • Who is the keeper of bees?

  16. U2, ”The Ground beneath her Feet” • Video: • What is Rushdie doing there? • Lyrics: • Intertextual references? • The conceptualization of love

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