Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner with Professor Wai Chee Dimock

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.

  1. Introduction

  2. Hemingway's In Our Time

  3. Hemingway's In Our Time, Part II

  4. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

  5. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Part II

  6. Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

  7. Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Part II

  8. Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Part III

  9. Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Part IV

  10. Hemingway's To Have and Have Not

  11. Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, Part II

  12. Fitzgerald's Short Stories

  13. Faulkner's As I Lay Dying

  14. Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Part II

  15. Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Part III

  16. Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls

  17. Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part II

  18. Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part III

  19. Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part IV

  20. Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night

  21. Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night, Part II

  22. Faulkner's Light in August

  23. Faulkner's Light in August, Part II

  24. Faulkner's Light in August, Part III

  25. Faulkner's Light in August, Part IV