Class Id: 7870
Days: M
Start Time: 01:30 PM
End Time: 04:20 PM
Building: FRIST
Room: 210
Course Id: 3475
Departments and Numbers: AMS 353, ENG 355
Area: LA
Title: Moby-Dick Unbound
Description: This seminar undertakes a close reading of <u>Moby-Dick</u> (1851), often acclaimed as the greatest American novel. Why was this story of a tragic sea voyage so neglected in its day, and so celebrated by later generations? To explore its twin lines of action--Ahab's drive to kill a white whale versus Ishmael's quest to know it--we use the methods of history, literature, art, religion, economics, philosophy, and ecology. Of special interest are the ways Melville anticipates recent environmental thought, depicts a globalized culture, and dramatizes the national struggle to reconcile faith and fact, race and justice.
Prerequisites: Applications are available outside the American Studies Program office, 42 McCosh Hall, and on the AMS website: http://www.princeton.edu/ams/undergraduate_program/seminars_1/ Preference will be for students enrolled in the American Studies certificate program, but students from all departments are welcome to apply. APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO: 12:00 NOON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9.
Professors: William Howarth
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