AMST 246: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner
Lecture 19 - Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part IV. Professor Wai Chee Dimock concludes her discussion of For Whom the Bell Tolls by reading the novel as a narrative of dispossession and repossession. She argues that the rape of Maria, which takes place in front of a barbershop mirror, enacts one type of disempowerment; the end of Robert Jordan's life represents another, but with the potential for redemption. She shows how Jordan vacillates between a "have" and a "have not," depending on how ironically one understands Maria's question "What hast thou?" (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 19 - Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part IV |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. Women's War |
| [00:04:40] | 2. Symmetry of Brutality and Narration in Hemingway |
| [00:15:19] | 3. The Dispossession of Rape |
| [00:21:42] | 4. Dispossession for Robert |
| [00:24:54] | 5. Robert as a "Have Not" |
| [00:33:59] | 6. The Removal of Narrative from Robert Jordan |
| [00:40:32] | 7. Robert Jordan's Repossession |
| References |
| Lecture 19 - Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part IV Instructor: Professor Wai Chee Dimock. Credit List [PDF]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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