AMST 246: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner with Prof. Wai Chee Dimock
Syllabus
Professor
Wai Chee Dimock, William Lampson Professor of English & American Studies
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.
Texts
Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying. Knopf Doubleday, 1991.
Faulkner, William. Light in August. Knopf Doubleday, 1991.
Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury. Knopf Doubleday, 1991.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Scribner, 2004.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection. Scribner, 1995.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. Scribner, 1995.
Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. Scribner, 1995.
Hemingway, Ernest. In Our Time. Scribner, 1996.
Hemingway, Ernest. To Have and Have Not. Scribner, 1996.
Requirements
Section participation, final exam, two papers.
Short paper (outline, paper, opportunity for revision): 5 pages, along with a cover page explaining what you are trying to do, what obstacles you have run into, and how you would do things differently if you had more time.
Term paper (outline, paper): 10 pages, along with a cover page explaining what you are trying to do, what obstacles you have run into, and how you would do things differently if you had more time.
Grading
Section participation: 10%
Short paper: 20%
Term paper: 40%
Final exam: 30%