Literary Genres

LITERARY GENRES AND THEMES BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT (ALLEGORY & THE UNCANNY)

He was again accused of distracting their attention from the real objectives of their second year culture curriculum. It was said that they were not that genius to discern the relevance of Hollywood machine allegory “Matrix” to the medieval Christian allegory of “The Vision of Piers Plowman” and the modern political allegory of Animal Farm. They were just shocked again at the ‘uncanny’ in medieval romance, modern science fiction and contemporary Hollywood Star Wars movie series. He has insisted that literature, like cinema, is a cultural message that both reflects and affects our contemporary reality. If we could trace similarities between literary and cinematic representations on one hand and the culture they represent on the other hand, then we might be able to get a grip on the relevance of our ‘Culture’ course to our reality. Here you will find some second year students of “The Round Table” attempting hard to explain that relevance to save their colleagues from falling in the trap of the uncanny.