AMST 4600

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AMST 4600
Melville

Course information provided by the 2014-2015 Catalog.

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.


Distribution Category (LA-AS)

When Offered Fall.

Breadth Requirement (HB)

Course Subfield (LT)

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4600

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9458 AMST 4600   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person