AMST 246: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner
Lecture 17 - Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part II. Professor Wai Chee Dimock continues her discussion of For Whom the Bell Tolls by analyzing the contrast Robert Jordan draws between "distant homes" and the on-site environment of the Spanish Civil War. She juxtaposes his invocations of Paris and Missouri to the rooted communities of the guerillas, and reads analogies of racial and ethnic conflict - specifically, the references to the Moors in Spain and persecuted blacks in America - as a point of tension, an ironic commentary on the coexistence of the distant home and the on-site environment. She concludes with a reading of the American Civil War as a temporally distant home which Jordan tries to recuperate in the present moment of European conflict. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 17 - Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part II |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. Distant Home vs. On-Site Environment |
| [00:03:13] | 2. Paris as a Distant Home |
| [00:12:12] | 3. America as a Distant Home |
| [00:18:40] | 4. Gypsies and Moors in the On-Site Environment |
| [00:26:56] | 5. Lynching in the Distant Home |
| [00:34:30] | 6. Lynching and the Moors in the On-Site Environment |
| [00:37:10] | 7. Tragedy and Comedy in the Republican Misunderstanding |
| [00:39:55] | 8. The Civil War as a Distant Home |
| References |
| Lecture 17 - Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part II Instructor: Professor Wai Chee Dimock. Credit List [PDF]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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