AMST 246: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner
Lecture 16 - Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. Professor Wai Chee Dimock begins her discussion of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls with an overview of the Spanish Civil War, the historical event at the heart of the novel. She introduces the notion of an "involuntary foreigner" to discuss the fate of Hemingway's American protagonist Robert Jordan, as well as the Spanish guerillas who are turned into "aliens" within their own country due to their print and technological illiteracies. Professor Dimock concludes by connecting one's status as an involuntary foreigner to the shape of the future, arguing that these characters have a tenuous claim to a Spain dominated by the Fascists, and to a modernity increasingly dominated by technology. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 16 - Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. Donne's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" |
| [00:02:32] | 2. Historical Context of the Spanish Civil War |
| [00:05:44] | 3. Low Tech and High Tech War: Robert Capa's Photographs |
| [00:11:41] | 4. Voluntary versus Involuntary Associations |
| [00:15:36] | 5. Seven-fold Permutation: Involuntary Foreigners |
| [00:18:41] | 6. Linguistic Alienation for Involuntary Foreigners |
| [00:25:36] | 7. Robert Jordan's Place in the Community as an Involuntary |
| [00:31:40] | 8. Print Illiteracy for Involuntary Foreigners |
| [00:36:02] | 9. Technological Illiteracy for Involuntary Foreigners |
| [00:44:56] | 10. The Tomorrow of the Spanish |
| References |
| Lecture 16 - Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls Instructor: Professor Wai Chee Dimock. Credit List [PDF]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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