AMST 246: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner
Lecture 05 - Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Part II. Professor Wai Chee Dimock concludes her discussion of The Great Gatsby by evaluating the cross-mapping of the auditory and visual fields in the novel's main pairs of characters. Beginning with an analysis of the Jazz Age, she argues that linkages between what is heard and what is seen have important implications for the overarching themes of The Great Gatsby, including notions of accountability, responsibility, illusion, and disillusion. She focuses on the linked characters of Daisy and Jordan Baker, Gatsby and Nick Carraway, to show how their convergences and divergences tell the entire store of Gatsby's decline and fall. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 05 - Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Part II |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. The Jazz Age and The Great Gatsby |
| [00:06:03] | 2. Cross-Mapping Visual and Auditory Fields |
| [00:08:15] | 3. Auditory Field with Color |
| [00:10:03] | 4. Visual Field with Noise |
| [00:16:15] | 5. Thematic Implications of Visual-Auditory Coupling for Daisy and Jordan |
| [00:23:15] | 6. Thematic Coupling of Nick and Gatsby |
| [00:34:05] | 7. Extinguishing Sound for Nick and Gatsby |
| [00:40:16] | 8. Thematic Divergence between Nick and Gatsby |
| [00:43:01] | 9. The Logic of Substitution for Nick Carraway |
| References |
| Lecture 5 - Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Part II Instructor: Professor Wai Chee Dimock. Credit List [PDF]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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