Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner

Course Number
AMST 246
About the 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 Structure

This Yale College course, taught on campus two times per week for 50 minutes, was recorded for Open Yale Courses in Fall 2011.

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%