Major Authors: Melville and Morrison
21L.705 · Literature, Women's and Gender Studies · Undergraduate · Fall 2003
Dr. Wyn Kelley
This seminar provides intensive study of texts by two American authors (Herman Melville, 1819-1891, and Toni Morrison, 1931-) who, using lyrical, radically innovative prose, explore in different ways epic notions of American identity. Focusing on Melville’s <em>Typee</em> (1846), <em>Moby-Dick</em> (1851), and <em>The Confidence-Man</em> (1857) and Morrison’s <em>Sula</em> (1973), <em>Beloved</em> (1987), <em>Jazz</em> (1992), and <em>Paradise</em> (1998), the class will address their common co…
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