Texts and authors mentioned in passing: Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Yellowstone (tv show), Smoke Signals, The Last Duel (film), Unbearable Lightness of Being, Sophocles, Socrates, Homer, western genre, tragedy

Discussion of using popular culture to understand the dynamics of democracy, civic engagement, and neoliberalism in contemporary culture. Texts mentioned include the television episode "Day Break" from Yellowstone, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Kevin Costner movies.

Overview of the influence of the Book of Job on American literary culture. Texts and authors mentioned in passing include King James Bible, Robert Alter's translation of Job, Harold Bloom, Carl Jung, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Edward P. Jones's The Known World, poet Emily Dickinson, Pulp Fiction, Hamlet, Casablanca

Discussion of Robert Frost, his poems, and place within literary modernism

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Discussion of Moby-Dick Chapters 90-end.

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Overview of Moby-Dick Chapters 90-end. Comparing Ishmael and Ahab with a look at Chapter 47, The Mat-Maker, the figure of Pip as inspired by King Lear’s Fool and Ahab as a tragic figure

 

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Overview of Chapters 46-90 with an emphasis on Chapter 54, The Town-Ho Story, that often stalls readers progression through Melville's Moby-Dick with a quick preview of the shortest Chapter 122, Midnight Aloft -- Thunder and Lightning

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Get started reading Moby-Dick chapters Chapter 1-45 with an emphasis on Chapter 36 The Quarter-Deck.

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Get started reading Moby-Dick chapters 1-45.

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Introduction to the first pages and chapters of Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick.

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