Syllabi
Course Number
World Literature 390
Syllabus Date
Spring 1996
Department course is offered by
OTHER
Course description
This course was taught by Robert Tobin at Whitman College. Professor Tobin worked at Whitman for 18 years as associate dean of the faculty and chair of the humanities, and was named Cushing Eells Professor of the Humanities.
"In World Literature 390, I want to examine from a literary perspective medicine and medical discourse. How do authors use metaphors of sickness and health, illness and cure, disease and well-being in their literature? How in turn do these literary and rhetorical metaphors affect everyday understandings of these basic concepts?"
Keywords
medicine, literature, Wilhelm Meister, Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, Tony Kushner
Recommended Citation
Tobin, Robert D., "Medicine & Literature (Spring 1996) (Whitman College)" (1996). Syllabi. 28.
https://commons.clarku.edu/tobinsyllabi/28
Included in
Comparative Literature Commons, English Language and Literature Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, French and Francophone Language and Literature Commons, German Language and Literature Commons, Medicine and Health Sciences Commons