AMST 246: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner
Lecture 21 - Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, Part II. Professor Wai Chee Dimock concludes her discussion of Tender Is the Night with a biographical sketch of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald's mental instability, the inspiration for the character of Nicole Diver. Invoking the schema of "have" and "have not," she then shows how Fitzgerald borrows techniques from film to quicken the pace of Dick Diver's narrative of dispossession. Dimock argues that Fitzgerald uses close-up, cross-cutting, and the speeding up of negative resolutions to strip Dick of his professional identity and to render him empty-handed at the end. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 21 - Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, Part II |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. The Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayer |
| [00:10:52] | 2. Have and Have Not as Types in Tender Is the Night |
| [00:17:00] | 3. Rosemary and Dick as Actors |
| [00:24:11] | 4. The Close-Up as a Narrative Technique |
| [00:29:58] | 5. Cross-Cutting as a Narrative Technique |
| [00:36:30] | 6. Racialization in Fitzgerald |
| [00:40:50] | 7. Cross-Cutting to Nicole's Judgment of Dick |
| [00:44:29] | 8. The Speed of the Negative Resolution to Tender Is the Night |
| [00:48:58] | 9. The Intrusion of World War I into Marriage |
| References |
| Lecture 21 - Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, Part II Instructor: Professor Wai Chee Dimock. Credit List [PDF]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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