05.874.410 Seminar 410 British Studies/English Literature and Culture: Illness Narrative

Veranstaltungsdetails

Lehrende/r: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Monika Class

Veranstaltungsart: Seminar

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Semesterwochenstunden: 2

Unterrichtssprache: Englisch

Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30

Anmeldegruppe: BS/ELC 410

Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.

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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
Illness narratives are written by patients or carers, they cover any length and manifest in themselves in prose, poetry and drama; while records of illness stretch across thousands of years and across the globe (Vickers "Illness Narratives" 388). Book-length accounts of illness have arguably emerged as a distinct publishing phenomenon in the Anglo-Saxon world in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The post-1950s specimen were mostly self-help books intended for readers who had recently been diagnosed with a similar condition. By the late 1970s, illness autobiographers like Norman Cousin in Anatomy of an Illness (1979) criticized the “dehumanising effects of modern healthcare” (Vickers "Illness Narratives" 388). By the early 1990s, illness gained importance in literary and philosophical memoirs, such as John Bayley's Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch (1993), Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work (1995), and Hilary Mantel’s Giving up the Ghost (2003).

The course is designed to enable students to demonstrate (1) a detailed knowledge of some key illness narratives, (2) a good understanding of the effects of developments in the genre over the past 20 years or so, and (3) a broad familiarity with the critical literature that has arisen in response to the new genre.

Students are asked to purchase a copy and read over the summer at least one of the following three illness memoirs (autopathographies):
John Bayley's Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch (1993), Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work (1995), and Hilary Mantel’s Giving up the Ghost (2003).

Students will need to buy their own copy of these three paperbacks.

Key secondary literature:
-       Couser, G. Thomas. Recovering bodies : illness, disability, and life-writing. Madison ; London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.
-       Frank, Arthur W. The wounded storyteller: body, illness and ethics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

 

 

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Datum Von Bis Raum Lehrende/r
1 Di, 16. Okt. 2018 16:15 17:45 01 481 P109a Jun.-Prof. Dr. Monika Class
2 Di, 23. Okt. 2018 16:15 17:45 01 481 P109a Jun.-Prof. Dr. Monika Class
3 Di, 30. Okt. 2018 16:15 17:45 01 481 P109a Jun.-Prof. Dr. Monika Class
4 Di, 6. Nov. 2018 16:15 17:45 01 481 P109a Jun.-Prof. Dr. Monika Class
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6 Di, 20. Nov. 2018 16:15 17:45 01 481 P109a Jun.-Prof. Dr. Monika Class
7 Di, 27. Nov. 2018 16:15 17:45 01 481 P109a Jun.-Prof. Dr. Monika Class
8 Di, 4. Dez. 2018 16:15 17:45 01 481 P109a Jun.-Prof. Dr. Monika Class
9 Di, 11. Dez. 2018 16:15 17:45 01 481 P109a Jun.-Prof. Dr. Monika Class
10 Di, 18. Dez. 2018 16:15 17:45 01 481 P109a Jun.-Prof. Dr. Monika Class
11 Di, 8. Jan. 2019 16:15 17:45 01 481 P109a Jun.-Prof. Dr. Monika Class
12 Di, 15. Jan. 2019 16:15 17:45 01 481 P109a Jun.-Prof. Dr. Monika Class
13 Di, 22. Jan. 2019 16:15 17:45 01 481 P109a Jun.-Prof. Dr. Monika Class
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Jun.-Prof. Dr. Monika Class