AMST 246: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner
Lecture 04 - Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Professor Wai Chee Dimock begins her discussion of The Great Gatsby by highlighting Fitzgerald's experimental counter-realism, a quality that his editor Maxwell Perkins referred to as "vagueness." She argues that his counter-realism comes from his animation of inanimate objects, giving human dimensions of motion and emotion to things as varied as lawns, ashes, juicers, telephones, and automobiles. She concludes with a short meditation on race in The Great Gatsby and encourages a closer reading of the novel's instances of racial differentiation. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 04 - Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. Maxwell Perkins and the "Vagueness" of Gatsby |
| [00:03:51] | 2. The Experimentalism of The Great Gatsby |
| [00:06:56] | 3. Counter-Realism in The Great Gatsby |
| [00:09:39] | 4. The Animation of the Inanimate |
| [00:19:31] | 5. The Human and the Machine |
| [00:27:40] | 6. The Telephone |
| [00:36:55] | 7. The Automobile |
| [00:42:10] | 8. Race and the Automobile |
| [00:46:46] | 9. Death and the Automobile |
| References |
| Lecture 4 - Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Instructor: Professor Wai Chee Dimock. Credit List [PDF]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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