Frank Gado |
Wednesdays 12:00 – 2:00 PM |
September 28 through November 2, 2005 |
Wheelock Terrace |
Moby-Dick is the greatest work of the literary imagination America has produced. Reading every bloody word, we’ll examine why this is so. Participants will be free to raise Queer Theory and Marxist views that the novel is a parable against American Imperialism, but they should be prepared for very short shrift. And although the course leader has a world of sympathy for Elizabeth Shaw Melville, he doesn’t think the possibility that Herman hit his wife diminishes his grand achievement.
For the first session, participants should have read at least the first nine chapters.
Class is limited to 20 members.
FRANK GADO holds an A.B. in philosophy/comparative literature from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in American literature from Duke University. He was a thirty-three-year faculty member at Union College (Schenectady, NY) and twice a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Uppsala (Sweden). He is the author of The Passion of Ingmar Bergman, First Person, The Teller’s Tales (ed.), and The Lion of the West and the Buckskins (ed.)
