F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

ISBN-13: 9781874166672 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 192 str.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Opis

In this Readers' Guide, Nicolas Tredell introduces and sets in context the key critical debates surrounding a novel about which more critical material exists than any other work of American fiction. The extracts and essays included here reflect on The Great Gatsby's place as one of the first American novels to make significant use of modernist techniques, and explore the influence of the work on later American writings. Considering secondary sources from the Twenties to the present, the Guide offers readers an invaluable resource for the study of this complex rendering of a moment in American history.

Spis treści

Introduction.- The Road from West Egg: Early Reviews to Posthumous Revival, 1925-49.- dream, Time and Craft: Interpreting Gatsby in the 1950s.- Precision Lenses and New Optics: Deeper Visions and Dissenting Views in the 1960s.- History, Herstory and Other Stories: From Political Gatsby to Gay Gatsby in the 1970s.- New Roads to West Egg.- Bibliography.- Notes.- Acknowledgements.- Index. 

O autorze

NICOLAS TREDELL teaches American and English literature, art history, and cultural and film studies for Sussex University.

Blurb

F. Scott Fitzgerald has become something of a defining figure of the twenties - the decade he so famously described as 'The Jazz Age'. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald's writing is at its finest, exposing a society's tendency towards decadence and moral collapse through a decade of hedonism. Regarded as the most searching and tightly written of his novels, The Great Gatsby was the work that assured Fitzgerald's place amongst the major writers of the twentieth century.

In this Readers' Guide, Nicolas Tredell introduces and sets in context the key critical debates surrounding a novel about which more critical material exists than any other work of American fiction. The extracts and essays included here reflect on The Great Gatsby's place as one of the first American novels to make significant use of modernist techniques, and explore the influence of the work on later American writings. Considering secondary sources from the Twenties to the present, the Guide offers readers an invaluable resource for the study of this complex rendering of a moment in American history.