报告人:Dennis Berthold
Professor of English, Texas A&M University
Pamela R. Matthews
Professor of English, Vice Provost,Texas A&M University
题目:(英文)Transnational Iconography
in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick
(中文)赫尔曼•梅尔维尔《白鲸》跨国界图解
时间:5月22日(周二)上午9:30-11:00
地点:1号学院楼540会议室
提要:Moby-Dick is often considered the "Great American Novel," and rightly so. Quakers, Native Americans, and die-hard Calvinists stalk its pages, and capitalism, imperialism, and industrialism motivate its characters. It is also a highly visual novel, and has frequently appeared in illustrated form from comic books to expensive limited editions. Although some of Melville's visual allusions are nationalistic, their predominant sources are international and historical, crossing boundaries of space and time through artistic allusions that expand the book's significance to a global scale. Identifying, understanding, and most important graphically representing the novel's iconography is one of the primary aims ofthe Melville Electronic Library, a website under development at Hofstra University that will provide readers with a more complete range of visual understanding and an appreciation ofthe book's transnational scope.
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