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| Semester | spring semester 2010 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Franziska Gygax (franziska.gygax@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | In the last decades an enormous number of illness narratives have been written and published, and scholars in literary and cultural studies have begun to discuss and theorize this genre. Personal narratives about illness not only raise complex questions about notions of selfhood, they equally provide insight into the cultural and social constructions of illness. Besides reading a whole range of illness narratives, we will also discuss canonical texts on literary representations of illness such as Susan Sontag's "Illness as Metaphor and Aids and Its Metaphors" and Virginia Woolf's essay "On Being Ill". |
| Learning objectives | This course will introduce students to a selection of different illness narratives (on AIDS, cancer, autoimmune disease, and stroke) and to the current debates on this genre. |
| Bibliography | - Reynolds Price. "A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing" (1994) - Harold Brodkey. "This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death" (1997) - Inga Clendinnen. "Tiger's Eye" (2002) - Sarah Manguso. "The Two Kinds of Decay" (2008) - Jill Bolte Taylor. "My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey" (2008) Critical texts will be available on EVA. |
| Comments | Read at least two of the texts before the semester starts. |
| Weblink | EVA server |
| Admission requirements | Open to students who have successfully attended all literature courses on the introductory level, including an accepted second-year proseminar paper. |
| Course application | Please register by e-mail to franziska.gygax@unibas.ch. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | Online, mandatory |
| Course auditors welcome |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Interphilologische Lehrveranstaltungen für die Slavistik (Master's degree subject: Slavic Studies) Interphilologisches Angebot: Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft (Bachelor's degree subject: Deutsche Philologie) Modul Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft (Master's degree subject: Modern German Literature) Modul Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft (Master's degree subject: German Literature) Modul English & American Literature (Master's degree subject: English) Modul Extending the View (Literary and Cultural Studies) (Bachelor's degree subject: Englisch) Modul Focusing on the Discipline (Literary and Cultural Studies) (Bachelor's degree subject: Englisch) Modul Kultur und Symbolische Ordnung (Master's degree subject: Gender Studies) Modul Subjekt, Körper und Identität (Master's degree subject: Gender Studies) Modul Themenfelder der Geschlechterforschung (Bachelor's degree subject: Geschlechterforschung) Vertiefungsmodul (Transfakultäre Querschnittsprogramme im freien Kreditpunkte-Bereich) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | One presentation |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Englisches Seminar |