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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Fall 2018 |
Registration ID | HISTH268A001 |
Course Title | Warriors and Outlaws in China and England: Water Margin and Robin Hood |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | History |
Instructor | Smith,Paul J |
Times and Days | TTh 10:00am-11:30am
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Room Location | HLL201 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2266 Few figures have captured the imaginations of readers and audiences on either side of Eurasia as Robin Hood’s band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and Song Jiang’s band of brothers in their marshy Liangshan lair. We use the 16th-century Robin Hood and ‘Water Margin’ tales to explore the values embodied by the outlaw heroes of China and England, to compare the societies that produced and revered them, and to sample the afterlives of the tales in Anglophone and East Asian popular culture. Our main readings for the course include the complete English translation of Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan) entitled Outlaws of the Marsh; and S. Knight and T. Ohlgren, Robin Hood and other outlaw tales.; Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or higher Social Science, B: Analysis of the Social World, A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (Hav: SO, B, A) |
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