Poetry of Illness
BA Seminar
Spring 2012
Dr Alexander Markin
Friday 12:15–13:45
24.02 Introduction
– Screening: Blue (Derek Jarman, 1993)
2.03
– Plato, from “Ion” & “Phaedrus”
– John Milton, “On His Blindness”
– Derek Jarman, “Blue”
9.03
– Virginia Woolf, “On Being Ill”
– Susan Sontag, “Illness as Metaphor”
16.03
— John Keats, “Ode to Fanny” & Letters
– Bright Star (Jane Campion, 2009)
23.03
— Edgar Alan Poe, “For Annie” & Charles Baudelaire “La Muse Malade”
– Elisabeth Bronfen, from “Over her Dead Body”
30.03
Screening: Dante’s Inferno (Ken Russell, 1967)
20.04
– Thomas de Quincy, “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater”
& “Suspiria de Profundis”
27.04
– Michel Field, from “Mystic Trees”
– Sylvia Plath, “Fever 103°”
– Julia Kristeva, from: “Black Sun”
04.05
– Heinrich Heine, from “Letzte Gedichte und Gedanken”
– Hannah Wilke, “Intra-Venus” (1992–1993)
– Julia Kristeva, from “Powers of Horror”
– Michel Foucault, from “The Birth of the Clinic”
11.05
– Screening and discussion: “La pudeur ou l’impudeur” (Hervé
Guibert, 1990)
– Susan Sontag’s “AIDS and its Metaphors”
18.05
– James Merrill, from „A Scattering of Salt“
– Photography of Hervé Guibert and Robert Mappelthorpe
– Susan Sontag, “AIDS and its Metaphors”
25.05
– Friedrich Hölderlin, Spätwerk
– Roman Jakobson, “Ein Blick auf 'Die Aussicht' von Hölderlin”*
01.06
– Henry Darger, “The History of My Life”