STS.464 | Spring 2008 | Graduate

Technology and the Literary Imagination

Drawing of the white whale's head rising from the ocean, biting a rowboat in half

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“Both jaws, like enormous shears, bit the craft completely in twain.” From Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, considered in this class as “an epic of technological fatality.” (Illustration by A. Burnham Shute, from the 1892 edition published by Harper.)

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Drawing of the white whale's head rising from the ocean, biting a rowboat in half.
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“Both jaws, like enormous shears, bit the craft completely in twain.” From Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, considered in this class as “an epic of technological fatality.” (Illustration by A. Burnham Shute, from the 1892 edition published by Harper.)
Drawing of the white whale's head rising from the ocean, biting a rowboat in half.

Course Info

As Taught In
Spring 2008
Level
Learning Resource Types
Written Assignments with Examples