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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"The Great Gatsby"”.
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Bronze monuments: the terror of death and its role in The Great Gatsby
This thesis is about the way 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 …
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"So we drove on towards death": release and mechanized violence in The Great Gatsby
Eric J. Leed postulates a theory of restraint and release as formative forces in the 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 …
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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>
<p>This work is an assessment of themes, ideas, and structure between two iconic novels published 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 …
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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
… 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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Semantic Features of the Object /
The present paper analyzes the features of the object in traditional and semantic syntax. A special attention is payed to the processes and the ways of expressing the object in each of them, namely, in material, mental, verbal, relational, existential and happening processes. The examples were …
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O processo tradutório dos phrasal verbs: efeitos de literalidade e de idiomaticidade em funcionamento
… dos 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 …
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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
<p>The aim of this paper is to examine how selected works in the American literary canon contribute to defining, constructing, and sustaining the basic principles of the American dream, in which each individual has the unlimited opportunities to achieve personal freedom and prosperity. Through 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
… at two critically acclaimed texts that concern themselves with American 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 …
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Lost in Time: The Concept of Temporality in Works of the US Lost Generation
The main focus of this thesis is the concept of time and temporality as represented in the major works of the US Lost Generation. The authors and the writings examined within this thesis are F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night; Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and A …
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To be prosecuted, banished, and shot : motives, morals, and the modern American hero
… three character types which serve as models for the protagonists of certain twentieth century writers. The distinguishing characteristics of Tom, Jim, and Huck reappear in the central figures of later American novels, novels dealing explicitly with the relationship between human perception and …
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Gender, Madness and the Search for Identity in selected works of F. Scott Fitzgerald
In this thesis I engage with the subject of identity and how 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 …
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Echoes of Eliot's The waste land in three modern American novels
… essay demonstrates how three popular writers of the twentieth century have created 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 …
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The transient composer: rearrangement of pre-existing music in the film score
This thesis addresses a prominent gap in existing film music scholarship by examining rearrangement as a recurrent and important practice in contemporary screen scoring. While the use of pre-existing music in the soundtrack is a vibrant area of inquiry (see Ashby 2013; Godsall 2019; McQuiston 2013; …
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Net work : social networks, disruptive agency, and innovation in Howells, Fitzgerald, Heller, Pynchon, and Gibson
… uses concepts from network science to analyze the agency of outsider characters who cause change or disruption without necessarily securing economic or political power for themselves. Network science as theorized by thinkers like Duncan Watts (Six Degrees, 2003) and Albert-Laszlo Barabasi …
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La recepción de las obras de F. Scott Fitzgerald en España, 1953-1982
… suscitaron las adaptaciones cinematográficas de The Great Gatsby y The Last Tycoon en sus obras. A comienzos de los años ochenta la obra de Fitzgerald gozaba de una mayor difusión, convirtiéndose no solo en un autor conocido por la crítica sino también por el público lector. La tesis ofrece …
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Impossible Whiteness: Race, Gender, and American Identity in Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
… of normalcy--as a complex, shifting category in the literature of early twentieth-century America, and show how gender, particularly, disrupts American whiteness. I deconstruct the various ways in which whiteness is defined legally, culturally, and in the marketplace, and demonstrate how Edith …
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Criticism of material success in the American novel
… or rewarding goal in life were not moving with the grain of American opinion. The novelists who did examine the goals of American life did not condemn material success immediately, but instead their thoughts grew by gradual stages. These novels are grouped into three stages for discussion in …
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The Seduction of Feminist Theory
<p>My dissertation, "The Seduction of Feminist Theory," comes out of my research on South African fiction and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and focuses broadly on feminist theory and the question of female power. Traditionally feminist theory has sought to empower women by insisting on …