課程名稱 |
感染理論與爆發論述 Contagion Theory and Outbreak Narratives |
開課學期 |
108-1 |
授課對象 |
文學院 外國語文學研究所 |
授課教師 |
陳重仁 |
課號 |
FL7339 |
課程識別碼 |
122EM6010 |
班次 |
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學分 |
3.0 |
全/半年 |
半年 |
必/選修 |
選修 |
上課時間 |
星期二2,3,4(9:10~12:10) |
上課地點 |
外研三 |
備註 |
本課程以英語授課。第一、三類。 限碩士班以上 總人數上限:12人 |
Ceiba 課程網頁 |
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1081FL7339_Contagion |
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課程概述 |
本課程討論英文小說與電影電視的感染論述,透過分析小說、流行文化與醫學論述建構的感染文化與入侵想像,討論感染書寫被賦予醫學化、異常化、病理化的文化與政治意涵,檢視為何感染顯示生命政治的規範治理,論述為何感染不只是身體的病徵,更顯示個人與集體抉擇的多元倫理面向,並針對感染實施的預防、隔離、治療等強制手段如何呈現科學理性對待身體的醫學化、標準化、正常化約制,以及當感染脫離他者的物化地位,轉身具有主體意識與動能的參與力量,人、環 境、感染等緊密連結的物的議會概念得以成立,並得以從而檢驗人體與病菌共生結 構概念下衍生行動網絡與液態現代性的議題與發展,而感染的身軀正是生命政治轉介為自我技術的關鍵環節。
This course examines classic and contemporary writings of contagions and their various manifestations as the unnamable thing itself in literature, popular culture and medical narratives, reinforcing the idea that the very essence of the infection is not just their difference but more to do with the similarity with us. The excessive and transgressive qualities of the outbreaks suggest its indeterminacy across the boundary of the normal and the abnormal, the fit and the unfit, the healthy and the sick, in which medical mechanism of normalism, behaviorism and moralism provides the knowledge to draw the demarcating line. In accordance, a governance of discipline and technology is built upon the intermingling interaction of medical studies of pathology, psychology, physiognomy, sociological studies of degeneration and corruption, and literary and cultural production to enhance their persistent presence of violence and transgression. The urgency of total annihilation and assimilation, as suggested by contagions, justify the need for the punitive society to manage and fortify current order in order to achieve a possible containment that is yet to come. Methods of management rely heavily on the bipolarization of the normalization of the health and stigmatization of the contagious. In providing a diagnosis reading of the normalcy, narratives of outbreaks become the wholesale supplier in associating abnormality with idiosyncrasy, deviancy and unhealthiness, not just for disciplining mechanism but also for the technology of the self. |
課程目標 |
The goal of this course is to introduce the interdisciplinary studies of medicine and literature. By inviting students to think about the relationship between medicine and literature along with reflections on the concept
of “health” itself, this course seeks to problematize the concept of health, sickness and diseases that we take for granted. Is health just the lack of disease, with diseases considered merely pathological changes in the body? Are there overarching social determinants to health? Beyond the clinical domain of medical practices, are there any space for the open dialogue between literature and medicine, humanities and science, doctors and patients? This course introduces examples of interdisciplinary readings of medicine and literature in order to defamiliarize assumptions not only about wellness and disease, but also studies of humanities.
All in all, this course aims to
• give an overview of the field of medical humanities;
• explore connections between literature and medicine;
• explore the historical background of literature and medicine;
• pursue an approach to interdisciplinary studies that is historically situated, literally contextualized and ethically informed;
• enhance reflective capacity and powers of written and oral expression and argument.
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課程要求 |
Attendance at each meeting of the course is compulsory. Please note that students who miss more than 10% of the compulsory attendance or who fail to submit an assessed piece of work will be at risk of losing their class certificate.
The class meets once a week for a seminar. Teaching will be conducted through lectures, weekly reading responses and class. Students will also be required to give short presentations on the topics of each weekly reading. Seminars require ACTIVE participation by all.
A mini-conference will be held in the last three weeks of the semester. Students are required to propose an abstract for the mini-conference. A clear indication of methodology, study question, working bibliography are expected. A research paper (12 pages for MA students, 18 pages for Ph.D. students) is expected.
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預期每週課後學習時數 |
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Office Hours |
每週二 12:00~13:00 |
指定閱讀 |
Tentative Reading List (To be confirmed in first class meeting)
Chen, Chung-jen. Victorian Contagion: Risk and Social Control in the Victorian Literary Imagination. New York and London: Routledge, 2019.
Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2003.
---. The Year of the Flood. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2009.
---. Maddaddam. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2013.
Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron. London: Penguin, 1972.
Brooks, Max. The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2003.
---. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2006.
Camus, Albert. The Plague. New York: Vintage, 1948.
Cook, Robin. Outbreak. New York: Berkley Books, 1987.
Crichton, Michael. The Andromeda Strain. New York: Vintage, 1969.
Defoe, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Year. London: Penguin, 1722.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. London: Penguin, 1853.
---. Hard Times. London: Penguin, 1854.
---. Little Dorrit. London: Penguin, 1857.
Eliot, George. Middlemarch. London: Penguin, 1871.
Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. New York: Vintage, 1973.
Foucault, Michel. The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception. New York: Vintage, 1975.
Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish. New York: Vintage, 1977.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. North and South. London: Penguin, 1855.
King, Steven. The Stand. New York: Doubleday, 1978.
London, Jack. People of the Abyss: Novels of Social Writings. New York: Library of America, 1982.
Kleinman, Arthur. The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing and the Human Condition. New York: Basic Books, 1988.
Mann, Thomas. Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories. New York: Vintage, 1930.
Matheson, Richard. I Am Legend. New York: Tor Book, 1995.
Mitchell, Peta. Contagious Metaphor. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2012.
Porter, Roy. Bodies Politics: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900. Ithaca and New York: Cornell University Press, 2001.
Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus. New York: Anchor Books, 1995.
Pyun, Hye-young. City of Ashes and Red: A Novel. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2019.
Rosenberg, Charles E. Explaining Epidemics and Other Studies in the History of Medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Saramago, José. Blindness. New York and London: Harvest Book, 1997.
Shelley, Mary. The Last Man. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Yan, Lianke. Dream of the Ding Village. New York: Grove Press, 2005.
Sontag, Susan. Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphor. New York: Picador, 1990.
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參考書目 |
Jones, David S. Rationalizing Epidemics: Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality
Since 1600. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Farmer, Paul. Infectious and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press, 2001.
---. Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and The New War on the Poor. Berkeley,
CA: University of California Press, 2005.
Bashford, Alison and Claire Hooker, Eds. Contagion: Historical and Cultural Studies. London
and New York: Routledge, 2001.
Creighton, Charles. A History of Epidemics in Britain. Vol. One. From A.D. 664 to the Great
Plague. London and Edinburgh: Frank Cass, 1965.
---. A History of Epidemics in Britain. Vol. Two. From the Extinction of Plague to the Present
Time. London and Edinburgh: Frank Cass, 1965.
Dobson, Mary. Murderous Contagion: A Human History of Disease. London: Quercus, 2007.
Hardt, Mark D. History of Infectious Disease Pandemics in Urban Societies. Lanham and New
York: Lexington Books, 2016.
Harrison, Mark. Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease. New Haven and London:
Yale University Press, 2013.
Oldstone, Michael B. A. Viruses, Plagues, and History: Past, Present, and Future. Oxford and
New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Olmstead, Alan L. Arresting Contagion: Science, Policy, and Conflicts Over Animal Disease
Control. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015.
Ranger, Terence and Paul Slack. Eds. Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical
Perception of Pestilence. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Santer, Melvin. Confronting Contagion: Our Evolving Understanding of Disease. Oxford and
New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Pelling, Margaret. Cholera, Fever and English Medicine, 1825-1865. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1978.
Black, Stanley. Juan Goytisolo and the Poetics of Contagion: The Evolution of a Radical
Aesthetic in the Later Novels. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2001.
Byrne, Katherine. Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination. Cambridge and New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Carlin, Claire L. Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe. Hampshire and New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Crawfurd, Raymond. Plague and Pestilence in Literature and Art. Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1914.
Day, Carolyn A. Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease. London and
New York: Bloomsbury, 2017.
Gilman, Sander L. Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference. Baltimore
and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Healy, Margaret. Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England: Bodies, Plagues and Politics.
Hampshire and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
Kellman, Steven G. The Plague: Fiction and Resistance. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993.
Rousseau, George Sebastian, et al. eds. Framing and Imagine Disease in Cultural History.
Hampshire and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Schülting, Sabine. Dirt in Victorian Literature and Culture: Writing Materiality. New York and
London: Routledge, 2016.
Ryan Johnson and William A. Cohen’s collaboration in the collection of articles Filth: Dirt,
Disgust, and Modern Life (2005),
David S. Barne. The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle Against Filth
and Germs (2006),
Stephen Halliday. The Great Stink (2007),
Emily Cockayne. Hubbuh: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770 (2008),
Lee Jackson. Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth (2015)
Sparks, Tabitha. The Doctor in the Victorian Novel: Family Practices. Farnham and Burlington,
VT.: Ashgate, 2009.
Wright, Erika. Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteen-Century Novel.
Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2016.
Dawson, Angus and Verweij, Marcel. Ethics, Prevention, and Public Health. Clarendon Press,
2009.
Dawson, Angus. The Philosophy of Public Health. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.
Goodlad, Lauren. Victorian Literature and Victorian State: Character and Governance in a
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Mandler, Peter. Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
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Nunokawa, Jeff. The Afterlife of Property: Domestic Security and the Victorian Novel.
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Gilbert, Pamela K. Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women’s Popular Novels.
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Latour, Bruno. Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
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---. Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University, 1988.
---. The Pasteurization of France. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1993.
---. Aramis, Or the Love of Technology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1996.
Latour, Bruno and Catherine Porter. We Have Never Been Modern. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University, 1993.
---. Politics of Nature: How to Bring Sciences into Democracy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University, 2004.
Bauman, Zygmunt. Liquid Modernity. Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity, 2000.
---. Modernity and the Holocaust. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001.
---. Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts. Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity, 2003.
---. Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bond. Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity, 2003.
---. Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty. Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity, 2013.
---. Strangers at Our Door. Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity, 2016
Films:
28 Days Later. DVD. Dir. Danny Boyle. Perf. Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher
Eccleston. DNA Films and UK Film Council, 2002.
28 Weeks Later. DVD. Dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Perf. Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy
Renner. Fox Atomic et al., 2007.
Contagion. DVD. Dir. Steven Soderbergh. Perf. Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video, 2011.
Doomsday. DVD. Dir. Neil Marshall. Perf. Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Adrian Lester. Rogue
Pictures et al., 2008.
Flu [Gamgi]. DVD. Dir. Kim Sung-su. Perf. Soo Ae, Jang Hyuk. iFilm Corp, 2013.
I Am Legend. DVD. Dir. Francis Lawrence. Perf. Will Smith, Alice Braga, Dash Miok. Village
Roadshow Pictures et al., 2007.
The Last Man on Earth. DVD. Dir. Sidney Salkow and Ubaldo Ragona. Perf. Vincent Price and
Franca Bettoia. American International Pictures, 1964.
Night of the Living Dead. Dir. George A. Romero. By George A. Romero and John Russo. Perf.
Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, Marilyn Eastman, and Karl Hardman. Continental Distributing,
Inc., 1968.
Outbreak. Film. Dir. Wolfgang Petersen. Perf. Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman.
Punch Productions. 1995.
Resident Evil Afterlife. Film. Dir. Paul W. S. Anderson. Perf. Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter,
Wentworth Miller. Constantin Film Produktion et al., 2010.
Resident Evil Apocalypse. Film. Dir. Alexander Witt. Perf. Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Eric
Mabius. Constantin Film Ltd., 2004.
Resident Evil: Damnation. Film. Dir. Makoto Kamiya. Capcom Company et al., 2012.
Resident Evil: Degeneration. Film. Dir. Makoto Kamiya. Capcom Company et al., 2008.
Resident Evil: Extinction. Film. Dir. Russell Mulcahey. Perf. Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Oded
Fehr. Resident Evil Productions et al., 2007.
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Yu-mi. Next Entertainment World and Red Peter Film, 2016.
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週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
Week 1 |
9/10 |
Introduction to Literature and Medicine
Narratives of Contagion and Writings of Outbreaks |
Week 2 |
9/17 |
Metaphor of Contagion and Stigmatization |
Week 3 |
9/24 |
Contagion, Discipline and Normatism |
Week 4 |
10/01 |
Novel Medley I:
(1) Defoe. A Journal of the Year of Plague.
(2) Camus. The Plague.
(3) Marquez. Love in the Time of Cholera. |
Week 5 |
10/08 |
Technology of the Self and Pasteurization of the World |
Week 6 |
10/15 |
Ethics of Contagion and Phenomenology of Outbreaks |
Week 7 |
10/22 |
Contagion, Memory and Construction of Identity |
Week 8 |
10/29 |
Novel Medley II:
(1) Preston. The Hot Zone.
(2) Brooks. World War Z.
(3) Matheson. I Am Legend. |
Week 9 |
11/05 |
Networks of Outbreaks in the Age of Globalization |
Week 10 |
11/12 |
Narratives of Outbreaks, Tradition and Localization |
Week 11 |
11/19 |
Narratives of Outbreaks and Construction of Body |
Week 12 |
11/26 |
Novel Medley III:
(1) Saramago, José. Blindness. New York and London: Harvest Book, 1997.
(2) Pyun, Hye-young. City of Ashes and Red: A Novel. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2019.
(3) Yan, Lianke. Dream of the Ding Village. New York: Grove Press, 2005. |
Week 13 |
12/03 |
Contagion and the World of Zombies;
Proposal for the Term Paper
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Week 14 |
12/10 |
Contagion in Popular Culture;
Love in the Time of Contagion |
Week 15 |
12/17 |
Movie Medley:
(1) Train to Busan
(2) World War Z
(3) Outbreak
(4) 28 Days Later |
Week 16 |
12/24 |
Mini-Conference I |
Week 17 |
12/31 |
Mini-Conference II |
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