21L.501 | Spring 2013 | Undergraduate

The American Novel: Stranger and Stranger

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Students use digital tools like this virtual map of Moby Dick to plot key points to aid their literary analysis. The map is shown here alongside a printed illustration of the Pequod’s voyage. © Google maps data on left and © Harris-Seybold map on right. All rights reserved. This content is excluded from our Creative Commons license. For more information, see http://ocw.mit.edu/fairuse.

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A map of the world with the left half showing a modern digital map of the Americas with points plotted by students and the right side showing an old literary map of the voyage of the Pequod.
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Students use the digital mapping tool Locast to plot key points to aid their literary analysis of Moby-Dick. The virtual map is shown here alongside a printed illustration of the Pequod’s voyage. (© Google maps data on left and © Harris-Seybold map on right. All rights reserved. This content is excluded from our Creative Commons license. For more information, see http://ocw.mit.edu/fairuse.)
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© Google maps data on left and © Harris-Seybold map on right. All rights reserved. This content is excluded from our Creative Commons license. For more information, see http://ocw.mit.edu/fairuse.
A map of the world with the left half showing a modern digital map of the Americas with points plotted by students and the right side showing an old literary map of the voyage of the Pequod.

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