F. Scott Fitzgerald's Short Fiction: From Ragtime to Swing Time

ISBN-13: 9781474424684 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 232 str.

Jade Broughton Adams

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A revisionist reading of Fitzgerald's short stories through the lens of popular culture of the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s

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Table of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Not ‘a Sincere and Yet Radiant World’ but ‘Trashy Imaginings’: Representations of Popular Culture in Fitzgerald’s Short Fiction; 1. ‘Dancing Modern Suggestive Dances that are Simply Savagery’: Fitzgerald and Ragtime Dance; 2. The ‘Chocolate Arabesques’ of Josephine Baker: Fitzgerald and Jazz Dance; 3. ‘Satyre upon a Saxaphone’: Fitzgerald and Music; 4. ‘The One about Sitting on His Top Hat and Climbing up His Shirt Front’: Fitzgerald and Musical Theatre; 5. ‘A More Glittering, a Grosser Power’: Fitzgerald and Film; Conclusion: ‘All my Stories are Conceived Like Novels’; Appendix A: Fitzgerald’s Short Story Collections; Bibliography; Index.