AMST 246: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner with Prof. Wai Chee Dimock

Lecture 20 - Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night [November 8, 2011]

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Overview:

Professor Wai Chee Dimock positions her reading of Tender Is the Night alongside F. Scott Fitzgerald’s career as a Hollywood screenwriter. She shows how the novel borrows narrative techniques from film, particularly flashback, “switchability” on a macro and micro scale, and montage. Invoking the theories of Sergei Eisenstein, she reads scenes of wartime death and individual murder to show how love and war are cross-mapped, superimposed onto one another as part of the narrative fabric of Tender Is the Night

Reading Assignment:

Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

Resources:

Credit List [PDF]