Lecture Description
Professor Wai Chee Dimock continues her discussion of Hemingway’s In Our Time, testing four additional clusters of chapters and vignettes. She offers readings of each cluster that focus on Hemingway’s logics of expressivity, substitution, and emotional resilience. She concludes that Hemingway mixes tragedy and comedy as genres of writing to produce a humor that vacillates between irony and farce.
Warning: This lecture contains graphic content and/or adult language that some users may find disturbing.
Course Index
- Introduction
- Hemingway's In Our Time (Part I)
- Hemingway's In Our Time (Part II)
- Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (Part I)
- Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (Part II)
- Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (Part I)
- Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (Part II)
- Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (Part III)
- Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (Part IV)
- Hemingway's To Have and Have Not (Part I)
- Hemingway's To Have and Have Not (Part II)
- Fitzgerald's Short Stories
- Faulkner's As I Lay Dying (Part I)
- Faulkner's As I Lay Dying (Part II)
- Faulkner's As I Lay Dying (Part III)
- Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls (Part I)
- Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls (Part II)
- Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls (Part III)
- Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls (Part IV)
- Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night (Part I)
- Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night (Part II)
- Faulkner's Light in August (Part I)
- Faulkner's Light in August (Part II)
- Faulkner's Light in August (Part III)
- Faulkner's Light in August (Part IV)
Course Description
This course examines major works by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner, exploring their interconnections on three analytic scales: the macro history of the United States and the world; the formal and stylistic innovations of modernism; and the small details of sensory input and psychic life.
Warning: Some of the lectures in this course contain graphic content and/or adult language that some users may find disturbing.