English N166
Special Topics: Moby-Dick and the Theory of the Novel
| Section | Semester | Instructor | Time | Location | Session | Course Areas |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Summer 2016 | Puckett, Kent
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MTTh 4-6 | 140 Barrows |
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Melville, Herman: Moby-Dick
Description
In this summer session, we'll read one and only one novel: Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851). We'll read the book carefully and closely, working particularly to understand Melville's idiosyncratic use of particuar aesthetic and narrative techniques. In addition to working through the novel one section at a time, we'll also consult some classic analyses of the narrative and the novel (Lukacs, Genette, Bakhtin, Kristeva, etc.) in order to see both what narrative theory has to say about the whale and to what the whale has to say about narrative theory.
This course will be taught in Session A, from May 23 to June 30.
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