Universität Wien

090059 PS Literature and Medicine (2017S)

7.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 9 - Altertumswissenschaften
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Dr. Maria Oikonomou will teach a number of sessions on Modern Greek Literature in the Medicine and Literature course

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 11 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

Samstag 29.04. 09:00 - 17:30 (Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 3.Stock)
Dienstag 02.05. 12:30 - 15:30 (Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 L3-05)
Donnerstag 04.05. 11:00 - 14:00 (Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 L3-05)
Samstag 06.05. 09:00 - 17:30 (Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 3.Stock)

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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Τhis course will explore the intersections of psychiatric, medical, and literary discourses in Greece at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. The research and experiments of Jean-Martin Charcot at the Salpêtrière, and the essays of Pierre Janet, Richard Krafft-Ebing and Sigmund Freud on trauma and hysteria, radically changed the modern concept of the relation between mind and body, and, in Western Europe, led to an unprecedented mutual “contagion” between medicine and literature. We will look at the reception and transformations of these developments in Greek literature and criticism, with a double focus on translated and original texts. Among issues of interest will be: how fin-de-siècle psychiatric and psychological research shapes the genre of phantastic literature (e.g. Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Bram Stoker, Dracula, Guy de Maupassant, Le Horla (1887)), and how, in turn, psychology motivates the translation and impact of phantastic literature in Greece, especially in the case of Alexandros Papadiamantis; disease and medicine in the work of Pavlos Nirvanas and the early medicalization of literary criticism in his essays; the impact of fin-de-siècle medical discourse and the connections between medicine, sexuality, and religion in the work of C.P. Cavafy; the transition from the beautiful sick body in aestheticism to the corpse and the living dead of naturalism (selections from Vizyinos, Episkopopoulos, Karkavitsas, Kondylakis, Psycharis).

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Prüfungsstoff

Literatur


Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Di 31.05.2022 00:18