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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Gatsby"”.
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An American Dream: The Fatal Gambit For Sutpen And Gatsby
… William Faulkner's 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 …
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Bronze monuments: the terror of death and its role in The Great Gatsby
… 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 through the ritual of …
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"So we drove on towards death": release and mechanized violence in The Great Gatsby
… 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 fantasy of release in pursuing Daisy and the …
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Does Money Indeed Buy Happiness? “The Forms of Capital” in Fitzgerald’s Gatsby and Watts’ No One is Coming to Save Us
… citizenship—F. Scott Fitzgerald’s <em>The Great Gatsby</em> and Stephanie Powell Watts’ <em>No One is Coming to Save Us</em>—I analyze the claims made about citizenship identities, rights, and consequential access to said rights. I ask, how do these narratives about citizenship sustain, create, …
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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>
… during the nineteen-twenties: <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 …
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Gender, Madness and the Search for Identity in selected works of F. Scott Fitzgerald
… connections to others. In characters such as Jay Gatsby and Dick Diver the latter is sacrificed in order to pursue the former. However, such an act of self-betrayal is shown to have significant, indeed disastrous consequences resulting in alcoholism, narcissism and melancholia. Alongside this …
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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
… 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 questions related …
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Semantic Features of the Object /
… examples were taken from the novel "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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O processo tradutório dos phrasal verbs: efeitos de literalidade e de idiomaticidade em funcionamento
… phrasal verbs materializados na obra The Great Gatsby. Para tanto, nossa reflexão e discussão baseiam-se em estudos históricos (CLARIDGE, 2000; THIM, 2012, só para citar alguns) acerca da construção dos phrasal verbs, abrindo caminho para tomarmos como materialidade discursiva. Como o corpus do …
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Net work : social networks, disruptive agency, and innovation in Howells, Fitzgerald, Heller, Pynchon, and Gibson
… Silas Lapham, 1884), F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby (The Great Gatsby, 1925), Joseph Heller's Milo Minderbinder (Catch-22, 1961), Thomas Pynchon's Pierce Inverarity (The Crying of Lot 49, 1965), and William Gibson's Cayce Pollard (Pattern Recognition, 2003). These characters do unusual things …
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The American dream and literature: how the themes of self-reliance and individualism in American literature are relevant in preserving both the aesthetics and the ideals of the American dream
… Finn, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby the paper will demonstrate how these works are sacred texts because they are rooted in the themes of self-actualization and individualism, and because they provide examples of all the possibilities the American dream offers when given the …
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“Pleasant Episodes” of Gastronomy: Food and Drink in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s <em>The Beautiful and Damned</em>
… class, Fitzgerald scholars often focus on Jay Gatsby's parties, but they seem to neglect Anthony Patch and company's fancy for food and drink in Ivy League supper clubs of Manhattan, vaudeville theaters, and houses of languor in Upstate New York. Building upon George J. Searles's article "The …
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Lost in Time: The Concept of Temporality in Works of the US Lost Generation
… this thesis are F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night; Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms; William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying. This thesis explores the way in which the understanding of the concept of time has undergone …
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To be prosecuted, banished, and shot : motives, morals, and the modern American hero
… 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 J. D. Salinger's The Catcher …
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Metaphors, Myths, and Archetypes: Equal Paradigmatic Functions in Human Cognition?
… exclusive or competing forms, as the analysis of Gatsby and the reversal of the values of East and West in the context of colonizing and counter-colonizing attitudes suggests.
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Echoes of Eliot's The waste land in three modern American novels
… 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. Fitzgerald's use of waste land …
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The transient composer: rearrangement of pre-existing music in the film score
… three central case studies on The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann, 2013), Watchmen (Damon Lindelof, 2019) and Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve 2017). While each of these examples incorporates rearrangement in nuanced, textually complex ways, even the most innocuous uses of rearrangement in …
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