Breaking Down Fitzgerald

ISBN-13: 9781119805328 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 112 str.

Helen Turner

Spis treści

Breaking Down Fitzgerald: Introduction 1Chapter 1: Fitzgerald's Life 5Childhood and Princeton (189-1917) 6Meeting Zelda and Early Success (1918-1924) 8The Great Gatsby and European Travels (1924-1931) 10Tender Is the Night and "The Crack- Up" (1931-1937) 13Hollywood and The Last Tycoon (1937-1940) 16Further Reading 18Further Viewing 18Chapter 2: Literary and Cultural Context 19The First World War and Its Aftermath 19Modernism and a Changing Literary Landscape 22The Roaring Twenties 24The 1930s and the Great Depression 26The United States versus Europe 28Changes in Hollywood 32Further Reading 34Chapter 3: Early Novels: This Side of Paradise(1920) and The Beautiful and Damned (1922) 35This Side of Paradise: Composition 37This Side of Paradise: Synopsis 40The Beautiful and Damned: Composition 42The Beautiful and Damned:Synopsis 43Further Reading 45Further Viewing 45Chapter 4: The Great Gatsby (1925) 47Composition 49Synopsis 50Themes 53Structure 54Motifs 55The Green Light 55West Egg versus East Egg 57The Valley of Ashes 58The Automobile 59Characters 61Jay Gatsby 61Daisy Buchanan 64Tom Buchanan 67Myrtle Wilson 69George Wilson 71Jordan Baker 72Nick Carraway 73Further Reading 76Further Viewing 76Further Listening 76Chapter 5: Later Novels: Tender Is the Night (1934) and The Last Tycoon (1941) 77Tender Is the Night: Composition 78Tender Is the Night: Synopsis 80Tender Is the Night: Interpretations 83The Last Tycoon: Synopsis 84The Last Tycoon: Reflections on an Unfinished Novel 85Further Reading 87Further Viewing 87Chapter 6: Short Stories and Essays 89Short Stories 90"The Ice Palace" (1920) 90"May Day" (1920) 91"Winter Dreams" (1922) 91"Jacob's Ladder" (1927) 92"The Last of the Belles" (1929) 93"Babylon Revisited" (1931) 94Essays 95Further Reading 96Further Viewing 97Further Listening 97Conclusion 99Bibliography 100Index 103

O autorze

HELEN M. TURNER has a PhD from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. She has taught in a variety of schools and universities in the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Sweden. She is also an active researcher with particular interests in American and South African literature. She has published on Richard Yates, Tom Wolfe, and Archibald MacLeish.