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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"F. Scott Fitzgerald"”.
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La recepción de las obras de F. Scott Fitzgerald en España, 1953-1982
… españolas del escritor norteamericano F. Scott Fitzgerald en España durante los años 1953 y 1982. Esta investigación, enmarcada dentro de los postulados de la Teoría de la Recepción, busca esclarecer cómo se percibía y se valoraba al escritor y su obra en un momento histórico en España …
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Gender, Madness and the Search for Identity in selected works of F. Scott Fitzgerald
… it is formed and undermined in the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald. In many of the novels and short stories a tension exists between two opposing forces. The first is the pursuit of a social identity which values inherited wealth and familial connections, mirroring in the values of the Old European …
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The influence of dynamic psychiatry on <i>Tender Is the Night</i> by F. Scott Fitzgerald
… theory in reading the psychiatric material of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s <i>Tender Is the Night</i>. Critics have applied several, sometimes contradictory, theoretical lenses to the text. As a result, the text has been characterised either as ignorant of psychiatry or in league with the so-called …
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Gender Revolution of the Jazz Age: The Source of Disillusionment in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway
… culture of the early twentieth-century, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway largely criticize the gender revolution of the 1920s and blame evolving gender roles for the collapse of their generation. Nevertheless, I argue that Fitzgerald’s and Hemingway’s cultural critique ironically …
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Semantic Features of the Object /
… taken from the novel "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Philosophical inheritances : Nietzsche and the twentieth century American novel.
… of twentieth century American literature: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, Richard Wright, and Sylvia Plath. First, I establish the pervasiveness of Nietzsche's influence on American society, explore the reasons for his popularity, and provide a brief review of other studies of Nietzsche …
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Selling Out: The American Literary Market Place and the Modernist Novel
… know by rereading how four American authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Kay Boyle, and William Faulkner deliberately tried to create a literary reputation through both their success in commercial publishing and their resistance to it. I do not so much refute the difference between …
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Selling out: The American literary marketplace and the Modernist novel
… culture. I examine how four American writers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Kay Boyle, and William Faulkner attempted to create their literary reputations through their success in commercial publishing, and how later critics and scholars read, interpreted, and re-inscribed those attempts. …
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A Place to Be: The Relationship Between Setting and Character in Short Stories
… Three short stories, “Babylon Revisited,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” by Ernest Hemingway, and “Where I’m Calling From,” by Raymond Carver, are analyzed for their abilities to successfully link aspects of their settings to the qualities of characters. The essay finds …
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Partying Like It's 1925: A Comparison and Contrast of Fitzgerald's <em>The Great Gatsby</em> and Azuela's <em>The Underdogs</em>
… <em>The Great Gatsby</em> (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald and <em>The Underdogs</em> by Mariano Azuela (originally published in 1915, re-written and redistributed in the 1920s, and then given a final version in 1925 that was translated into many languages). Both novels were written during …
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A Few Slices of Pie: The Life and Legacy of Scottie Fitzgerald Smith
… dinner parties, not lived with,” wrote Frances Scott Fitzgerald Smith, affectionately known to her close friends and family as “Scottie,” in the 1965 introduction to a collection of her father, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, letters to her. With twenty-five years of hindsight chasing her down a highway …
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"I am moved by fancies that are curled / Around these images, and cling": Photographic Narration and Creative Subjectivity in The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway wrote <italic>The Great Gatsby</italic> and <italic>The Sun Also Rises</italic> in an age marked by an onslaught of images, and particularly by the proliferation of the photograph. Modernity’s preoccupation with the photographic medium raised urgent …
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The Lost Artist: Biographical Fiction and the Identity of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
<p>Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (1900-1948) is widely regarded as the first flapper of the Roaring 20s and is often recognized for her tumultuous marriage to acclaimed American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. As a female icon whose life was filled with salacious incidences and mental struggles, the image of …
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The hotel in fiction from Henry James to Henry Green
… of history from early to late James, through F Scott Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Bowen and Henry Green, charting a series of shifting representational strategies as writers grappled with the hotel's increasing abstraction and fluidity. The hotel became, for these writers, a laboratory for the …
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To be prosecuted, banished, and shot : motives, morals, and the modern American hero
… William Faulkner in Absalom, Absalom! and F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby. Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March and Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel depict heroes dissatisfied with but undaunted by the limitations of human perceptions. Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and …
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Dialectical Metafiction and the Self-Conscious Subject of American Modernism
… Sarah N. Cleghorn, Anna Louise Strong, and F. Scott Fitzgerald (in his short story "Winter Dreams") wrote dialectical metafiction, a literary form that reproduces the ideological forms of consciousness while contextualizing them within determinate levels of material and ideological production, …
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Pour une lecture de "l'enfantin" chez Cocteau, Fitzgerald, Kafka, Saint-Exupéry et Vian
… “Un diamant gros comme le Ritz” (1922) by F. Scott Fitzgerald, La Métamorphose (1915) by Franz Kafka, Le Petit Prince (1943) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and L’Arrache-coeur (1953) by Boris Vian. Distinct from both childhood narratives and narratives for children, these texts nevertheless …
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"The Subordination of the Privileged: Patriarchal Constructions of Femininity in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald's Save Me the Waltz"
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Zelda Fitzgerald provide unique insight into the patriarchal worlds they lived in through autobiographical accounts of their lives. The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the diaries of Gilman and her first husband, Charles Walter Stetson, serve as Gilman’s …
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The short stories of John Steinbeck
… and Faulkner, usually in company with F. Scott Fitzgerald, as titans, while John Steinbeck's, cast as a johnny-come-lately, tends to be regarded as a dwarf among mammoths, an intruder among the immortals. Even those critics who, like so many readers, have enjoyed the gifted storytelling of …
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Being the Beautiful Fool
<p>Ernest Hemingway wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald that “The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — and one is as good as the other” (305). With that, I created a collection of short stories that analyzes my …
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