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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940."”.
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"So we drove on towards death": release and mechanized violence in The Great Gatsby
… trenches of the European fronts. I examine F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby for its portrayal of release that is tied to the presence of automobile “accidents.” These events emblematize the suppressed memory of mechanized violence. My first chapter addresses Gatsby and his …
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Bronze monuments: the terror of death and its role in The Great Gatsby
… humans cope with death through the lens of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in the wake of war. The thesis contains three chapters all of which work in succession to build a picture of various characters’ death denial. Chapter 2 considers how Nick’s narrative is an attempt to deny death …
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An American Dream: The Fatal Gambit For Sutpen And Gatsby
… Absalom, Absalom! and Jay Gatsby from F. Scott Fitzgearald's The Great Gatshy, as men of distinctive American character in fatal pursuit of the American dream. The attainment of that dream, defined as an individual goal of personal success, which is sought in a state of unlimited …
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Metaphors, Myths, and Archetypes: Equal Paradigmatic Functions in Human Cognition?
The overview of contributions to metaphor theory in Chapters 1 and 2, examined in reference to recent scholarship, suggests that the current theory of metaphor derives from long-standing traditions that regard metaphor as a crucial process of cognition. This overview calls to attention the …
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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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Echoes of Eliot's The waste land in three modern American novels
… that contain echoes of Eliot's poem. They are F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925), Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (1926), and John Steinbeck's To a God Unknown (1933). I chose these particular novels because they exemplify widely different and distinctive echoes of the poem. …