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Boiling Down Moby Dick: So Often Rewritten – So Seldom Read

Apr 21
2025
4:00pm - 5:30pm
On Campus Event - Canaday Library, 1912 Gallery, 1st Floor Canaday Library
Moby Dick Stock

Professor Bethany Schneider explores the canonization of Moby Dick and its endless revision into forms that are easier to read – condensations, comic books, children’s picture books, illustrated editions by prominent artists. Followed by hands-on examination for everyone of the dozens of versions from Special Collections. Join us in the 1912 Gallery, First Floor of Canaday Library, and get acquainted with The Whale!

Audience: BMC Community
Type(s): Informational Event/Presentation
Contact:
Marianne Hansen

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