1. Introduction

The podcast introduces a critical paradigm for analyzing American literature, focusing on the works of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner. It outlines three analytic scales: macro history, narrative experiments of modernism, and sensory details. The discussion explores Hemingway's global perspective through his writings on the Spanish Civil War and Cuba, Faulkner's narrative experimentation in "The Sound and the Fury," and Fitzgerald's use of sensory details in "The Great Gatsby." The lecture then examines the impact of war, particularly World War I, on these authors, discussing themes of irony, loss of hope, and the deformation of language, while also considering the potential for war to create unexpected unity and affirmative understanding.