Writing and Illness offered by Oxford University
- Public University
1 Campus- Estd. 1096
Writing and Illness at Oxford University Overview
Duration | 10 weeks |
Total fee | ₹19,400 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Course Level | UG Certificate |
Writing and Illness at Oxford University Highlights
- Earn a certificate of completion from Oxford university
Writing and Illness at Oxford University Course details
- Introduce wide range of writings about a variety of illnesses
- Think critically about the issues involved in representing illness
- Confident with close reading, and with relating the forms of texts to their contents
- Write their own critical and/or creative pieces in response to the course reading
- In this course we will find out how illnesses including cancer, mental illness, and coronavirus have been depicted by such writers as Thomas De Quincey, Virginia Woolf, Jackie Kay, and Jenny Diski
- This will help us to think about how illness affects our sense of ourselves and our relationships with others, and about the role which writings about illness play in the wider culture
- We will be looking at different kinds of writing, including memoirs, poetry, and short stories
- You will then have the opportunity to reflect on illness in your own writing, whether creative or critical
- The course aims to introduce students to a variety of writings about illness, and to the issues involved in writing about illness
Writing and Illness at Oxford University Curriculum
Week 0:
An Introduction to Teams
Week 1: Introduction
Virginia Woolf, 'On Being Ill'
Week 2: The 1918 Flu Pandemic
Katherine Anne Porter, 'Pale Horse, Pale Rider'
Week 3: Illness and Poetry 1: Coronavirus
Write Where We are Now (website of coronavirus pandemic poems)
Week 4: Illness and Metaphor
Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors (extracts)
Week 5: Illness and Poetry 2
A Selection of Poems
Week 6: Mental Illness 1
Sigmund Freud, The 'Wolf Man' Case Study
Week 7: Mental Illness 2
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Jackie Kay, 'The Woman With Fork and Knife Disorder'
Week 8: Addiction
Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821 edn)
Week 9: Illness and the Environment
Linda Hogan, The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir (extract)
Week 10: Cancer Diary
Jenny Diski, In Gratitude (extract)
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