AMST 246: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner

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.

About Professor Wai Chee Dimock

Wai Chee Dimock is William Lampson Professor of English & American Studies at Yale University. Originally from Hong Kong, she received her BA from Harvard University and PhD from Yale University. Three concepts are important to Dimock: deep time; kinship among genres and media; and close reading. Her recent book, "Through Other Continents” (2006), received Honorable Mention for both the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association and the Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association. A collaborative volume, "Shades of the Planet,” further elaborates on these arguments. Outside Yale, Professor Dimock was a consultant for "Invitation to World Literature," a 13-part series produced by WGBH and aired on PBS stations in the fall of 2010. She is now working on two books, “Low Theory” and “Many Islams,” and a print-and-web anthology, “American Literature in the World.”

Sessions:

Lecture 1 Introduction
Lecture 2 Hemingway's In Our Time
Lecture 3 Hemingway's In Our Time, Part II
Lecture 4 Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Lecture 5 Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Part II
Lecture 6 Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
Lecture 7 Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Part II
Lecture 8 Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Part III
Lecture 9 Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Part IV
Lecture 10 Hemingway's To Have and Have Not
Lecture 11 Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, Part II
Lecture 12 Fitzgerald's Short Stories
Lecture 13 Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
Lecture 14 Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Part II
Lecture 15 Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Part III
Lecture 16 Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls
Lecture 17 Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part II
Lecture 18 Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part III
Lecture 19 Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part IV
Lecture 20 Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night
Lecture 21 Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night, Part II
Lecture 22 Faulkner's Light in August
Lecture 23 Faulkner's Light in August, Part II
Lecture 24 Faulkner's Light in August, Part III
Lecture 25 Faulkner's Light in August, Part IV