English - Elective Subject, topic 3: Moby-Dick and Ecological Thinking
Course content
A study of Melville’s ‘whale of a book’ in terms of our contemporary understanding of the history and consequences of the whaling industry, not only as undertaken in New England but also in Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
Apart from introducing students to one of the most formidable works of world literature, the purpose of this elective is to build on the focus in LICH 1 on 'literature and ecology’ and to encourage students to think historically about concerns often thought to have emerged only recently.
Engelsk
Weekly seminars in F23 with active participation and presentations by students.
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851). This work, of almost one thousand pages, will be at the centre of the course and will be studied intensely; we will also read the Book of Jonah from the Hebrew Scriptures, Heathcote Williams' Whale Nation (1988), Philip Hoare's Leviathan or, the Whale (2008), and assorted excerpts from writings of ecological and cetological relevance.
- ECTS
- 15 ECTS
- Type of assessment
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Other
Criteria for exam assessment
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Single subject courses (day)
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 84
- Preparation
- 325,5
- English
- 409,5
Kursusinformation
- Language
- English
- Course number
- HENB01483U
- ECTS
- 15 ECTS
- Programme level
- Bachelor
- Duration
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1 semester
- Placement
- Spring
- Price
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Dette er et dagkursus via tompladsordningen mod betaling på Åbent Universitet. Tilmeld dig og se aktuel prisoversigt på www.aabentuniversitet.hum.ku.dk
- Schedulegroup
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- Studyboard
- Study board of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Contracting department
- Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
Course Coordinator
- Charles Lock (4-7c7f737b5078857d3e7b853e747b)
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