In the ongoing Covidian Age, classic disease narratives from Daniel Defoe through Mary Shelley to Cormac McCarthy and Stephen King have made a comeback. Explorations of the Arts and Humanities in representing and critiquing pathologies, the “sick role” and medicine, with apocalyptic, extinction, pandemic and other scenarios have also resurfaced. It is in this context that the Dept. of English puts together this Podcast eSeries.
Illness as Defamiliarization: A Reading of Virginia Woolf’s “On Being Ill”
by Avishek Parui, IIT-Madras

Coordinators: Anna Kurian & Pramod K Nayar