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Cool Britannia and After

Cool Britannia and After. British Literature, Culture, and Society from the 1990s to the Present: Session Two. Agenda. Reading the texts: easy or difficult? Diana and ”Diana” Rushdie’s ”Diana” in The Ground Beneath Her Feet U2, ”The Ground Beneath Her Feet” Video. Diana and ”Diana”.

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Cool Britannia and After

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

  2. Agenda • Reading the texts: easy or difficult? • Diana and ”Diana” • Rushdie’s ”Diana” in The Ground Beneath Her Feet • U2, ”The Ground Beneath Her Feet” Video

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

  4. Polish Black Madonna

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

  6. Madonna, Like a Virgin

  7. Diana, Princess of Wales

  8. 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?

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

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