20. Fitzgerald Tender Is the Night
Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner (AMST 246) Professor Wai Chee Dimock positions her reading of Tender Is the Night alongside F. Scott Fitzgerald s career as a Hollywood screenwriter. She shows how the novel borrows narrative techniques from film, particularly flashback, switchability on a macro and micro scale, and montage. Invoking the theories of Sergei Eisenstein, she reads scenes of wartime death and individual murder to show how love and war are crossmapped, superimposed onto one another as part o
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