Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part IV
By Wai Chee Dimock - Yale
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Lecture Description
Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner (AMST 246)
Professor Wai Chee Dimock concludes her discussion of For Whom the Bell Tolls by reading the novel as a narrative of dispossession and repossession. She argues that the rape of Maria, which takes place in front of a barbershop mirror, enacts one type of disempowerment; the end of Robert Jordan's life represents another, but with the potential for redemption. She shows how Jordan vacillates between a "have" and a "have not," depending on how ironically one understands Maria's question "What hast thou?"
00:00 - Chapter 1. A Women's War
04:40 - Chapter 2. Symmetry of Brutality and Narration in Hemingway
15:19 - Chapter 3. The Dispossession of Rape
21:42 - Chapter 4. Dispossession for Robert
24:54 - Chapter 5. Robert as a "Have Not"
33:59 - Chapter 6. The Removal of Narrative from Robert Jordan
40:32 - Chapter 7. Robert Jordan's Repossession
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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