LIT-119 Literature as/of medicine

Writers from Longinus to Toni Morrison believe that literature can heal or make us better, and is thus itself a kind of medicine. In this course we will examine this idea in poetry, novels, plays, and non-fiction, in the context of representations of the lives of doctors and patients, medical history and theory, and disease. Texts change from year to year, but include poetry by writers such as Donne, Wordsworth, Williams, Bishop, and Diaz, novels like Frankenstein, and Never Let Me Go, short stories by Tolstoy and Saunders, and memoirs by Kalanithi and Manguso.

Maximum Enrollment

First Year Course (18)

(First Year Course, Writing Intensive.)

Credits

1

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