AMST 246: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner
Lecture 18 - Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part III. Professor Wai Chee Dimock focuses on the themes of dying and not dying that reappear throughout For Whom the Bell Tolls. Marshaling Elaine Scarry's argument on the aesthetics of killing, she reads the execution of the Fascists as a representation of both aesthetic and ethical "ugliness" in death. She then turns to a discussion of the tragic-comic dimensions of not dying as depicted in the bullfighter Finito's refusal to die and the smell of death emanating from the old women in the Madrid marketplace. She concludes with a reading of the word cobarde - coward - as it is applied to both Robert Jordan's suicidal father and the indomitable Pablo. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 18 - Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part III |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. The American Civil War as a Distant Home |
| [00:06:08] | 2. Hemingway's Suicide |
| [00:09:40] | 3. Varieties of Dying: The Execution of the Fascists |
| [00:16:52] | 4. The Aesthetics of Killing |
| [00:25:04] | 5. Varieties of Not Dying: Bullfighter Finito |
| [00:29:38] | 6. Varieties of Death: The Tragic-Comic Smell of Death |
| [00:34:52] | 7. Varieties of Dying: The Tragic-Comic Rewriting of "The Earth Moved" |
| [00:40:18] | 8. Varieties of Dying: Robert's Father as Cobarde |
| [00:44:51] | 9. Varieties of Not Dying: Pablo as Cobarde |
| References |
| Lecture 18 - Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part III Instructor: Professor Wai Chee Dimock. Credit List [PDF]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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