English and Comparative Literature
Undergraduate and Graduate Seminar
Tu 2:10-4PM
We will study how Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain explores, through its narration of disease, the intricate relationship between ethical concepts and moral norms, between bodily sensation and psychic dispositions, between metaphysical concepts and medical insight and innovation (the discovery of the x-ray and psychoanalytic treatment, for example), and between the institution of the tuberculosis sanatorium and its morbid and potentially rebellious inhabitants.
Link to Vergil
Note: only courses offered during the two previous semesters have active Vergil links.
