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By Wai Chee Dimock - Yale
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Lecture Description
Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner (AMST 246)
Professor Dimock introduces the class to the works of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner, the premiere writers of American modernism. She orients their novels along three "scales" of interpretation: global geopolitics, experimental narration, and sensory detail. Invoking the writings of critic Paul Fussell, she argues that all three writers are united by a preoccupation with World War I and the implications that the Great War has for irony in narrative representation.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Class Logistics
00:25 - Chapter 2. Three Analytic Scales
02:00 - Chapter 3. Hemingway's Global Vision of American
05:38 - Chapter 4. Faulkner's Narrative Experiments of Modernism
10:11 - Chapter 5. Fitzgerald's Sensory Details
12:05 - Chapter 6. Cross-Scale Analysis of World War I
15:59 - Chapter 8. Linguistic Taboos of War
18:36 - Chapter 7. Narrative Problems of War
20:56 - Chapter 9. The Ironies of Storytelling after World War I: Hemingway and Fitzgerald
33:02 - Chapter 10. The Idealism of War: Faulkner
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://oyc.yale.edu
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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