RELG 8713

Course Description

This tutorial seminar explores linkages in how Moby-Dick represents characters engaged in activities of 1) giving rapt attention to perceptible phenomena; 2) of interpreting such phenomena; and 3) of recognizing ethical responsibility. Approaches include phenomenological and religious aesthetics, philosophical hermeneutics, post-structuralism, and narrative ethics. The main seminar activity is to produce close readings of Melville.