Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner
Published: Fall 2011
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.
Course Takeaways
- Learn the history and lives of each author
- Analyze all their various works and explore their impact through 3 scales
- Macro-historical scale. How did they impact the U.S. and indeed the whole world
- Narrative scale. How did each experiments with their writing? How did they influence and add to what we think of as modernism
- Micro level. How do these books make you feel when reading them. Sensory detail.
Meet the Instructors
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.”
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