Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Part II
By Wai Chee Dimock - Yale
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Lecture Description
Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner (AMST 246)
Professor Wai Chee Dimock continues her discussion of The Sound and the Fury by juxtaposing Quentin's stream-of-consciousness to his brother Benjy's narrative subjectivity. Professor Dimock argues that Faulkner uses stylistic parallels between the two sections to communicate "kinship" and "variation" between the two narrators. In her readings, she focuses on their relationship with the black characters in The Sound and the Fury, as well as their reactions to Caddy's loss of sexual innocence. She concludes with a discussion of Quentin's suicide as a reaction to the "second-hand tragedy" of Caddy's pregnancy.
Warning: This lecture contains graphic content and/or adult language that some viewers may find disturbing
00:00 - Chapter 1. Kinship: Theme and Variation
04:58 - Chapter 2. The "Tomorrow" of Race" Luster
12:37 - Chapter 3. The "Tomorrow" of Race: The Deacon
20:14 - Chapter 4. Benjy's Caddy, Quentin's Caddy
28:22 - Chapter 5. "Sister" as a Semantic Field
33:38 - Chapter 6. Conflation of Sisters
36:45 - Chapter 7. Saint Francis and Little Sister Death
43:49 - Chapter 8. second Hand Tragedy
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This course was recorded in Fall 2011.
Course Description
This course examines major works by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner, exploring their interconnections on three analytic scales: the macro history of the United States and the world; the formal and stylistic innovations of modernism; and the small details of sensory input and psychic life.
Warning: Some of the lectures in this course contain graphic content and/or adult language that some users may find disturbing.
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