Ranked #1
4. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
4. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Professor Wai Chee Dimock begins her discussion of The Great Gatsby by highlighting Fitzgerald’s experimental counter-re... Read more
2 Apr 2012
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48mins
Ranked #2
13. Faulkner – As I Lay Dying
13. Faulkner – As I Lay Dying
Professor Wai Chee Dimock begins her discussion of Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying by orienting the novel to the Great Depress... Read more
2 Apr 2012
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48mins
Ranked #3
20. Fitzgerald - Tender Is the Night
20. Fitzgerald - Tender Is the Night
Professor Wai Chee Dimock positions her reading of Tender Is the Night alongside F. Scott Fitzgerald’s career as a Holly... Read more
2 Apr 2012
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47mins
Ranked #4
16. Hemingway – For Whom the Bell Tolls
16. Hemingway – For Whom the Bell Tolls
Professor Wai Chee Dimock begins her discussion of Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls with an overview of the Spanish C... Read more
2 Apr 2012
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48mins
Ranked #5
6. Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
6. Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
Professor Wai Chee Dimock begins her discussion of The Sound and the Fury by presenting Faulkner’s main sources for the ... Read more
2 Apr 2012
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50mins
Ranked #6
17. Hemingway – For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part II
17. Hemingway – For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part II
Professor Wai Chee Dimock continues her discussion of For Whom the Bell Tolls by analyzing the contrast Robert Jordan dr... Read more
2 Apr 2012
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45mins
Ranked #7
5. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Part II
5. 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 a... Read more
2 Apr 2012
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50mins
Ranked #8
3. Hemingway's In Our Time, Part II
3. Hemingway's In Our Time, Part II
Professor Wai Chee Dimock continues her discussion of Hemingway’s In Our Time, testing four additional clusters of chapt... Read more
2 Apr 2012
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50mins
Ranked #9
14. Faulkner – As I Lay Dying, Part II
14. Faulkner – As I Lay Dying, Part II
Professor Wai Chee Dimock traces Faulkner’s appropriation of the epic genre through two conventions: the blurring of bou... Read more
2 Apr 2012
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Ranked #10
10. Hemingway – To Have and Have Not
10. Hemingway – To Have and Have Not
Professor Wai Chee Dimock introduces the class to Hemingway’s novel To Have and Have Not, which originally appeared as a... Read more
2 Apr 2012
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48mins