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AMST 246: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner
Mirrored from oyc.yale.edu · CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 · Wai Chee Dimock William Lampson Professor of English & American Studies
Mirrored from: oyc.yale.edu · Yale University · American Studies
Instructor: Wai Chee Dimock William Lampson Professor of English & American Studies · License: CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0
About this course
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.
Course details
Course Structure
This Yale College course, taught on campus two times per week for 50 minutes, was recorded for Open Yale Courses in Fall 2011.
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%
Syllabus
1 section · 25 lectures · links open at oyc.yale.edu.
Course sessions
- Introduction
- Hemingway's In Our Time
- Hemingway's In Our Time, Part II
- Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
- Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Part II
- Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
- Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Part II
- Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Part III
- Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Part IV
- Hemingway's To Have and Have Not
- Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, Part II
- Fitzgerald's Short Stories
- Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
- Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Part II
- Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Part III
- Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part II
- Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part III
- Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part IV
- Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night
- Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night, Part II
- Faulkner's Light in August
- Faulkner's Light in August, Part II
- Faulkner's Light in August, Part III
- Faulkner's Light in August, Part IV