Literature and the Body

3 - 4 credits · Undergraduate credit

This course interrogates the corporeal context of literary creation and meaning. It focuses not only on the influence of gender, sex, ability, disability, and race within the world of the text but questions the relation between literary and bodily form. Is the body a text, or is it an origin for texts? Do we write out of the body or is the body itself written? How do the body of the text and the text of the body interact to create meaning?