Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner: 2. Hemingways In Our Time
Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner (AMST 246) Professor Wai Chee Dimock discusses Hemingway s first book In Our Time, a collection of vignettes published in 1925 that launched Hemingway s career as a leading American modernist. Professor Dimock examines a cluster of three vignettes from In Our Time to show how Hemingway s laconic style naturalizes problems of pain and violence amidst the ethnic tensions of the American Midwest. Drawing on the theoretical writings of critics Elaine Scarry and Susan Sontag, a
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