AMST 246 - Lecture 1 - Introduction | Open Yale Courses

Professor Dimock introduces the class to the works of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner, the premiere writers of American modernism. She orients their novels along three “scales” of interpretation: global geopolitics, experimental narration, and sensory detail. Invoking the writings of critic Paul Fussell, she argues that all three writers are united by a preoccupation with World War I and the implications that the Great War has for irony in narrative representation. Chapter 1. Class Logistics [00:00:00] Professor Wai Chee Dimock: We're going to get started. And let me just explain a couple of mechanics about this class. First of all, the sections. Right now we have Thursday sections. Well, I know that a few of you have emailed me already about possibly having other section times, so we are considering having one section on Tuesday.   We're going to pass out the sign up sheets for sections now, and we'll ask you to sign both on the department sheet saying whet

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