ENGL 2609H Study Guide - Winter 2019, Comprehensive Final Exam Notes - Financial Crisis, Pandemic, Wilderness

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Why this course: intersections between literature and medicine, interdisciplinary, contemporary culture"s ongoing fascination with the subject of contagion, concepts of otherness centred on the problem of human contact; foreignness; the stranger. The day of the virus : the united states has become infected with virus metaphors. Common theories: 1546 ce: de contagione: seeds of disease (girolamo fracastoro, miasma (poison, disease comes from the atmosphere, bacteriology (late 19th century, transmissible diseases come from imbalance between humans and the environment, religious, social, environmental explanations intermingle. Back story: transgressions of the king: homer, the iliad, sophocles, oedipus rex, exodus, kings/pharaohs as the source of suffering, language of the gods" displeasure , assumption of responsibility. Fragmentation/alienation: thucydides/hippocrates: plague ravages social order and individual bodies, collapse of social relations, rituals, institutions, boccaccio, the decameron (1350, no more respect was accorded to dead people than would nowadays be shown toward dead goats , pessimism.

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