Courses of Study 2013-2014 
    
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Courses of Study 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ENGL 4600 - Melville

(crosslisted)
(also AMST 4600 )(HB) (LA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.

B. Maxwell.

An American whose life and writing ranged over the globe, Herman Melville (in the estimation of C.L.R. James) “saw the tendency of things.” Our study of the fiction and poetry will turn on some of those “things” of modernity that most obsessively engaged Melville’s representational and critical capacities: slavery; illegitimate authority; exterminationist policy directed against American Indians; capitalism; orphanhood and homelessness; imperialism; the attempted occultation of women; the shifting terrain of male comradeship; and the ambivalent resort to religion. We will be interested in testing the premise that Melville charted the fault lines of his world with an “unenrolled” critical acuity unparalleled in United States literature.



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