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ENGL 6330/7330 Major American Writers Herman Melville's Moby-Dick Summer Session 2, 2012 Days: MTWR | Room: PH 300 | Time: 330-555 pm
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The focus of this course is Moby-Dick, the greatest novel of Herman Melville (1819-1891), one of the major authors of The American Renaissance. Although we will visit other his other major works along the way (and Melville-adjacent books as well), with each class member doing a paper and a class presentation on one of them, at all times the White Whale will be our monomaniacal (in a scholarly sense of course) objective.
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Office: PH 372 | Office Hours: Office Hours: by arrangement | E-mail: david.lavery@gmail.com | Office Phone/Voice-Mail: 615-898-5648 | Home Page: http://davidlavery.net/ |
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Dr. David Lavery is Professor of English at MTSU (1993- ), where he won the University's 2006 Distinguished Research Award. The author of over one hundred and fifty published essays, chapters, and reviews, he is author / co-author / editor / co-editor of over twenty books, including Joss Whedon, A Creative Portrait: From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to The Avengers, TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map of Supernatural, The Essential Cult Television Reader, and The Essential Sopranos Reader. The co-convener of international conferences on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the work of Joss Whedon and on The Sopranos, co-founder of the Whedon Studies Association, and founding co-editor of the journals Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies, Critical Studies in Television, and Series/Season/Show, he has lectured around the world on the subject of television (Australia, Turkey, the UK, Portugal, New Zealand, Ireland, Germany) and has been a guest/source for the BBC, NPR, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, The New York Times, A Folha de Sao Paulo (Brazil), Publica (Portugal), Information (Netherlands), AP, The Toronto Star, USA Today. From 2006-2008, he taught at Brunel University in London. |
Click on the images to go to the Amazon page for each book or order online from any other seller. Go here to find Melville's Works on Project Gutenberg (Kindle versions available). A pdf of Salt-Sea Mastodon will be made available online.
Recommended Reading
Click on the cover of Sea Mastodon: A Reading of Moby-Dick by Robert Zoellner
for a scanned (pdf) copy of this out-of-print book.
| Jonathan Bradley | Matthew Brown | Nathan Franklin |
| Jennifer Hayes | Autumn Lauzon | Teresa Bell Lockhart |
| Joy Smith | Sally VanDenburg | Victoria Warenik |
| Kevin Yeargin |
Critical Essay: A 2,000 word reading/analysis/investigation of your non-Moby
Melville/Melville-related work.—30%
of course grade. Here are your possibilities:
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Major Paper: A source paper of not less than 4,000 words on some aspect of Moby-Dick.—50% of course grade. Due by 900 am, 7/9/12. |
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Class Participation—20% of course grade. Includes an in-class presentation on your non-Moby work (see Agenda for dates; go here for guidelines). |
Hyperlinks are to available web versions of each text.
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Redburn: His First Voyage (1849) |
"Hawthorne and His Mosses" (1850) | |
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Moby-Dick; or the Whale (1851) |
Pierre: Or the Ambiguities (1852) |
Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (1855) |
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"Bartleby the Scrivener" (1857) |
Benito Cereno (1857) |
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Billy Budd, Sailor (1924) |
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Week 1 Meeting 1—Date: 6/4/12
Meeting 2—Date: 6/5/12
Meeting 3—Date: 6/6/12
Meeting 4 | Date: 6/7/12
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Week 2 Meeting 5—Date: 6/11/12
Meeting 6—Date: 6/12/12
Meeting 7—Date: 6/13/12
Meeting 8—Date: 6/14/12
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Week 3 Meeting 9—Date: 6/18/12
Meeting 10—Date: 6/19/12
Meeting 11—Date: 6/20/12
Meeting 12—Date: 6/21/12
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Week 4 Meeting 13—Date: 6/25/12
Meeting 14—Date: 6/26/12
Meeting 15—Date: 6/27/12
Meeting 16—Date: 6/28/12
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