AMST 246: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner
Lecture 12 - Fitzgerald's Short Stories. Professor Wai Chee Dimock demonstrates how four of Fitzgerald's most famous short stories - "The Rich Boy," "Babylon Revisited," "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," and "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" - represent "social types," generic identities that Fitzgerald explores as forms of social reality. She reads the dramatic tension in each of those stories as determined by the protagonist's conformity to or deviation from their idealized social type. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 12 - Fitzgerald's Short Stories |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. Individuals and Types |
| [00:04:25] | 2. The Rich Boy as a Type |
| [00:08:27] | 3. The Sociology of Types |
| [00:14:39] | 4. Yale as a Social Marker in "The Rich Boy" |
| [00:22:54] | 5. Social Profiles in "Babylon Revisited" |
| [00:30:42] | 6. Social Type and Large Scale Drama in "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" |
| [00:40:34] | 7. Reversion to Type and Small Scale Drama in "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" |
| References |
| Lecture 12 - Fitzgerald's Short Stories Instructor: Professor Wai Chee Dimock. Credit List [PDF]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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