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

Lecture 1 - Introduction [September 1, 2011]

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Overview:

Professor Dimock introduces the class to the works of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner, the premiere writers of American modernism. She orients their novels along three “scales” of interpretation: global geopolitics, experimental narration, and sensory detail. Invoking the writings of critic Paul Fussell, she argues that all three writers are united by a preoccupation with World War I and the implications that the Great War has for irony in narrative representation.

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