The great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald / editor, Morris Dickstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dickstein, Morris, editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. Great Gatsby.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott.

Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald, F. Scott).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 291 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 2010.

Pasadena, California : Salem Press, [2010]

Summary:

This volume focuses on one of the most widely taught works of American literature: The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It contains critical viewpoints covering topics such as issues of race and individual character studies, an introduction exploring the simplicity of the plot and the complex underpinnings that make the novel a true masterpiece, and essays considering the cultural and historical contexts of Fitzgerald's work and comparing it to other literary works.

Contents:

On The great Gatsby / Morris Dickstein

Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald / Michael Adams

The Paris review perspective / Jascha Hoffman

Gatsby in context / Jennifer Banach Palladino

The critical reception of The great Gatsby / Amy M. Green

"The self-same song that found a path" : Keats and The great Gatsby / Dan McCall

Paradox, ambiguity, and the challenge to judgment in The great Gatsby and Daisy Miller / Neil Heims

Babbled slander where the paler shades dwell : reading race in The great Gatsby and Passing / Charles Lewis

Introduction to The great Gatsby / Ruth Prigozy

The great Gatsby : Fitzgerald's opulent synthesis (1925) / Robert Roulston, Helen H. Roulston

The craft of revision : The great Gatsby / Kenneth E. Eble

"A world complete in itself" : Gatsby's elegiac narration / Dan Coleman

"A fragment of lost words" : narrative ellipses in The great Gatsby / Matthew J. Bolton

The great Gatsby and the obscene word / Barbara Will

Photography and The great Gatsby / Lawrence Jay Dessner

Color-symbolism in The great Gatsby / Daniel J. Schneider

"Herstory" and Daisy Buchanan / Leland S. Person, Jr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

ISBN:

9781587656095

1587656094

9781280688393

1280688394

OCLC:

1004750982