The Department of English has a full array of courses on the fall 2021 schedule from composition to general studies to creative writing to advanced literature courses. Check out the UNK registration website MyBlue for more information.
Today we are featuring a general studies course (Loper 6 Humanities) ENG 254-02 Medicine in Literature that will be held on MWF 10:10-11:00 am in the fall.
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ENG 254-02 Introduction to Literature: Medicine in Literature
Instructor: Dr. Annarose Steinke
This course explores a variety of literary texts dealing with some major concerns in modern medicine from the early twentieth century to the present. We’ll consider how writers aim to convey experiences of illness that often elude language, how language itself affects social attitudes toward certain diseases and treatments, and how literature might offer valuable perspectives as we seek to understand current conversations around physical and mental health. Essays by Virginia Woolf and Roxane Gay, The Doctor Stories by William Carlos Williams, and Mary Beth Keene’s novel Fever (a fictional account of “Typhoid Mary” Mallon) will be among our reading selections, along with some of the newest poetry and prose responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and other timely topics in medicine.
***ENG 254 fulfills the LOPERs 6 General Studies Distribution Area***
For more course offerings from the Department of English, visit MyBlue Nebraska: LINK. See also information about ENG 450 HERE.