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