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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 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 • U2, ”The Ground Beneath Her Feet” Lyrics and Video
Culture and media BA-projects • Young British Artists • BritPop • Heritage film
Young British Artists • Conceptualism • Art and science in Damien Hirst • Art and commoditiy in Damien Hirst • Public and private in Tracey Emin
BritPop • Nation, class, gender, and subjectivity in Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Spice Girls • Lyrics • Music videos
Heritage film • Images of England in P&P adaptations
Diana and ”Diana” • Icon and iconographic product (Kear & Steinberg 1999: 7-8 • Diana as icon and / or iconographic construct.
The Mother of • God of • Tenderness
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) - The Madonna of the Roses (1903).
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)
Stella Vine • 2003
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?
U2, ”The Ground beneath her Feet” • Video: • What is Rushdie doing there? • Lyrics: • Intertextual references? • The conceptualization of love