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AMST 246: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner

Lecture 01 - Introduction. 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. (from oyc.yale.edu)

Lecture 01 - Introduction

Time Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00] 1. Class Logistics
[00:00:25] 2. Three Analytic Scales
[00:02:00] 3. Hemingway's Global Vision of American Literature
[00:05:38] 4. Faulkner's Narrative Experiments of Modernism
[00:10:11] 5. Fitzgerald's Sensory Details
[00:12:05] 6. Cross-Scale Analysis of World War I
[00:15:59] 7. Narrative Problems of War
[00:18:36] 8. Linguistic Legacies of War
[00:20:56] 9. The Ironies of Storytelling after World War I: Hemingway and Fitzgerald
[00:33:02] 10. Utopian View of War: Faulkner

References
Lecture 1 - Introduction
Instructor: Professor Wai Chee Dimock. Credit List [PDF]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov].

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Lecture 01 - Introduction
Lecture 02 - Hemingway's In Our Time
Lecture 03 - Hemingway's In Our Time, Part II
Lecture 04 - Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Lecture 05 - Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Part II
Lecture 06 - Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
Lecture 07 - Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Part II
Lecture 08 - Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Part III
Lecture 09 - Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Part IV
Lecture 10 - Hemingway's To Have and Have Not
Lecture 11 - Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, Part II
Lecture 12 - Fitzgerald's Short Stories
Lecture 13 - Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
Lecture 14 - Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Part II
Lecture 15 - Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Part III
Lecture 16 - Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls
Lecture 17 - Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part II
Lecture 18 - Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part III
Lecture 19 - Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part IV
Lecture 20 - Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night
Lecture 21 - Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, Part II
Lecture 22 - Faulkner's Light in August
Lecture 23 - Faulkner's Light in August, Part II
Lecture 24 - Faulkner's Light in August, Part III
Lecture 25 - Faulkner's Light in August, Part IV