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AMST 246: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner

Lecture 21 - Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, Part II. Professor Wai Chee Dimock concludes her discussion of Tender Is the Night with a biographical sketch of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald's mental instability, the inspiration for the character of Nicole Diver. Invoking the schema of "have" and "have not," she then shows how Fitzgerald borrows techniques from film to quicken the pace of Dick Diver's narrative of dispossession. Dimock argues that Fitzgerald uses close-up, cross-cutting, and the speeding up of negative resolutions to strip Dick of his professional identity and to render him empty-handed at the end. (from oyc.yale.edu)

Lecture 21 - Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, Part II

Time Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00] 1. The Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayer
[00:10:52] 2. Have and Have Not as Types in Tender Is the Night
[00:17:00] 3. Rosemary and Dick as Actors
[00:24:11] 4. The Close-Up as a Narrative Technique
[00:29:58] 5. Cross-Cutting as a Narrative Technique
[00:36:30] 6. Racialization in Fitzgerald
[00:40:50] 7. Cross-Cutting to Nicole's Judgment of Dick
[00:44:29] 8. The Speed of the Negative Resolution to Tender Is the Night
[00:48:58] 9. The Intrusion of World War I into Marriage

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Lecture 21 - Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, Part II
Instructor: Professor Wai Chee Dimock. Credit List [PDF]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov].

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Lecture 01 - Introduction
Lecture 02 - Hemingway's In Our Time
Lecture 03 - Hemingway's In Our Time, Part II
Lecture 04 - Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Lecture 05 - Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Part II
Lecture 06 - Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
Lecture 07 - Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Part II
Lecture 08 - Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Part III
Lecture 09 - Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Part IV
Lecture 10 - Hemingway's To Have and Have Not
Lecture 11 - Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, Part II
Lecture 12 - Fitzgerald's Short Stories
Lecture 13 - Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
Lecture 14 - Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Part II
Lecture 15 - Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Part III
Lecture 16 - Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls
Lecture 17 - Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part II
Lecture 18 - Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part III
Lecture 19 - Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part IV
Lecture 20 - Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night
Lecture 21 - Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, Part II
Lecture 22 - Faulkner's Light in August
Lecture 23 - Faulkner's Light in August, Part II
Lecture 24 - Faulkner's Light in August, Part III
Lecture 25 - Faulkner's Light in August, Part IV