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Lehrende/r: Dr. Anita Wohlmann
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
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05.866.410
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
- | 30
Anmeldegruppe: AS 410
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
This seminar looks at the stories that patients and relatives tell about an illness, such as dementia, depression, and migraine. We will consider the complex questions the authors raise and the experiences the patients make during existential moments in their lives. What does it mean to be sick? What does it mean to be a caregiver? How can storytelling or writing about boundary experiences have a healing effect? How are narrative and identity interwoven?
In focusing on a diversity of different narratives, we will also include texts that are at the boundaries of or go beyond common narrative structures, such as poems, photographs and animation films. We will read and discuss fictional and autobiographical texts by North-American authors, comprising David Foster Wallace, T.C. Boyle, Raymond Carver, Alice Munro, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sylvia Plath, Jonathan Franzen, Ernest Hemingway, and Siri Hustvedt. In contrast to a typical literature seminar, we will also generate narratives through interviews and creative writing.
The seminar will highlight different methods to analyze and generate fictional and non-fictional narratives. We will approach narratives from an interdisciplinary angle, including among others narrative theory, life writing, ethnographic narrative interviews and creative writing. The aim is to provide students of American and English literature and culture with a notion of the methods used in literary studies and in related disciplines to analyze narratives.
The course is designed as an interdisciplinary teaching project, funded by the Gutenberg Lehrkolleg, and will run parallel to a practicum with pharmacology students. The course will terminate with a “mini-conference” where the students from the seminar and the practicum will present posters with the results of their individual projects.
Students are expected to commit some time outside of the classroom to individual writing projects and interview assignments.
Inhalt:
This seminar looks at the stories that patients and relatives tell about an illness, such as dementia, depression, and migraine. We will consider the complex questions the authors raise and the experiences the patients make during existential moments in their lives. What does it mean to be sick? What does it mean to be a caregiver? How can storytelling or writing about boundary experiences have a healing effect? How are narrative and identity interwoven?
In focusing on a diversity of different narratives, we will also include texts that are at the boundaries of or go beyond common narrative structures, such as poems, photographs and animation films. We will read and discuss fictional and autobiographical texts by North-American authors, comprising David Foster Wallace, T.C. Boyle, Raymond Carver, Alice Munro, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sylvia Plath, Jonathan Franzen, Ernest Hemingway, and Siri Hustvedt. In contrast to a typical literature seminar, we will also generate narratives through interviews and creative writing.
The seminar will highlight different methods to analyze and generate fictional and non-fictional narratives. We will approach narratives from an interdisciplinary angle, including among others narrative theory, life writing, ethnographic narrative interviews and creative writing. The aim is to provide students of American and English literature and culture with a notion of the methods used in literary studies and in related disciplines to analyze narratives.
The course is designed as an interdisciplinary teaching project, funded by the Gutenberg Lehrkolleg, and will run parallel to a practicum with pharmacology students. The course will terminate with a “mini-conference” where the students from the seminar and the practicum will present posters with the results of their individual projects.
Students are expected to commit some time outside of the classroom to individual writing projects and interview assignments.
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