2013-2014 HillBook (Class of 2017) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
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ENG 100/123 - “In Sickness and in Health”: Bodies in Literature (Core/First-Year Seminar)Three or Four Credits
Not Offered 2013-2014
Our thematic focus is the representation of human bodies in the works of poets, dramatists, novelists, and film makers at various significant moments in western cultural history. As we read some famous and influential literary texts alongside less familiar works, we will become acquainted with key concepts and methodologies employed in literary studies. The course is divided into two conceptual blocks: one is devoted to representations of the monstrous body, a subject that has preoccupied writers (and filmmakers) for a very long time and produced some of the great classics of the western literary canon two of which we read this semester, Frankenstein and The Metamorphosis. The other centers on the relationship between literature and medicine, and ranges widely from Giovanni Boccaccio’s fourteenth-century account of the plague in Florence to David Feldshuh’s late-twentieth century play about the infamous Tuskegee experiment in 1930s rural Alabama, to poetry by practicing physicians and healthcare workers
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 123, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
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