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EL50B4: ILLNESS AND DISABILITY IN MODERN LITERATURE AND THOUGHT (2015-2016)

Last modified: 25 Mar 2016 11:39


Course Overview

Disability studies and medical humanities are relatively new fields of interdisciplinary research in the humanities. Central to this course, which will explore representations of illness and disability in a selection of modern French and English literary and philosophical texts, will be the question of how to define the key terms ‘illness’ and ‘disability’. Exploring work by modern writers gives us insights into the way they think about their bodies and the conditions of illness or disability in their particular social and cultural context.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Session Full Year Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Old Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Aine Larkin

Qualification Prerequisites

None.

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • One of Master of Letters in English Literary Studies (Studied) or Master of Letters in the Novel (Studied) or M Litt in Creative Writing (Studied) or Master of Letters in Literature, Science and Medicine (Studied)
  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

Disability studies and medical humanities are relatively new fields of interdisciplinary research in the humanities. Central to this course, which will explore representations of illness and disability in a selection of modern French and English literary and philosophical texts, will be the question of how to define the key terms ‘illness’ and ‘disability’. Exploring work by modern writers gives us insights into the way they think about their bodies and the conditions of illness or disability in their particular social and cultural context. Prescribed texts will comprise a variety of French- and English-language literary and philosophical texts of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, such as but not limited to Rita Charon’s Narrative Medicine, Michel Foucault’s The Birth of the Clinic, Jean-Luc Nancy’s The Intruder, and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway.

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 31 August 2023 for 1st half-session courses and 22 December 2023 for 2nd half-session courses.

Summative Assessments

First Attempt:
Continuous assessment: 1 4500-word essay (90%), seminar presentation (10%)

Resit:
Continuous assessment: 1 5000-word essay (100%)

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Feedback

None.

Course Learning Outcomes

None.
 

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