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This course provides participants with a forum for the discussion of representations of
maritime land- and waterscapes in American literature. We will look at the different
dimensions of such representations, historicize them, and explain them with the help
of theories that put their specific aesthetics across genres, their transformations across
different literary periods, and their transnational aspects into sharper focus. The
emerging field of Blue Humanities will play a central role in this seminar, as we will
learn about the impact that the analysis of blue spaces in literature and culture has had on theorization, and on the development of transdisciplinary approaches in particular.
Information regarding course requirements will be provided in the first session.
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