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ENGLISH LITERATURE (L14)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)SP2021
L14 E Lit 151First-Year Seminar: "A World Without Time": Literature and Epidemic Disease3.0 Units
Description:"Death and horror and suffering seemed to push people into a world without time." Thus does Sigrid Undset ("The Cross," 1922) imagine the influence of the black plague on fourteenth-century Norway. As the world in the 2020s struggles to understand the Covid-19 pandemic, literary works that explore epidemic disease creatively and allegorically can offer context, inspiration, and broader insight. In this course we will study, either in part or in whole, key works depicting the responses of individuals and societies to diseases like cholera, smallpox, plague, and influenza: Boccaccio's "Decameron," Chaucer's "Pardoner's Tale," two texts by Defoe, Dickens's "Bleak House," Mann's "Death in Venice," Porter's "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," Camus's "The Plague," Saramago's "Blindness," and Sontag's "Illness as Metaphor"; additional writers may include W. Somerset Maugham, Ben Jonson, Margaret Atwood, Emily St. John Mandel, and Gabriel García Márquez. Many of these texts feature physicians who are called upon to treat the afflicted; some achieve a kind of moral heroism, while others fail to live up to the ideals of their profession. These works also illustrate how people use language and narrative art to interpret, and to attempt to control, the disruptions caused by epidemic disease. In this course, which serves as an introduction to the study of both literature and the medical humanities, students will explore their ideas by participating in class discussions, giving short presentations, and writing and revising three papers. This course is for first-year, non-transfer students only.
Attributes:A&S: FYSA&S IQ: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUMEN: H
Instruction Type:Remote per COVID-19 Grade Options:CP Fees:
Course Type:HomeSame As:L61 151A  L85 151Frequency:None / History
SecDays       TimeBuilding / RoomInstructorFinal ExamSeatsEnrollWaits
01-T-R---10:00A-11:20ARemote / LA ArchPaper/Project/Take Home1550
Desc:Fully remote. Synchronous each meeting.
REG-DelayStart: 1/25/2021   End: 5/13/2021
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