Breaking Down Fitzgerald

Breaking Down Fitzgerald

Turner, Helen M.

John Wiley & Sons Inc

04/2022

112

Mole

Inglês

9781119805328

15 a 20 dias

112

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Breaking Down Fitzgerald: Introduction 1

Chapter 1: Fitzgerald's Life 5

Childhood and Princeton (189-1917) 6

Meeting Zelda and Early Success (1918-1924) 8

The Great Gatsby and European Travels (1924-1931) 10

Tender Is the Night and "The Crack- Up" (1931-1937) 13

Hollywood and The Last Tycoon (1937-1940) 16

Further Reading 18

Further Viewing 18

Chapter 2: Literary and Cultural Context 19

The First World War and Its Aftermath 19

Modernism and a Changing Literary Landscape 22

The Roaring Twenties 24

The 1930s and the Great Depression 26

The United States versus Europe 28

Changes in Hollywood 32

Further Reading 34

Chapter 3: Early Novels: This Side of Paradise(1920) and The Beautiful and Damned (1922) 35

This Side of Paradise: Composition 37

This Side of Paradise: Synopsis 40

The Beautiful and Damned: Composition 42

The Beautiful and Damned:Synopsis 43

Further Reading 45

Further Viewing 45

Chapter 4: The Great Gatsby (1925) 47

Composition 49

Synopsis 50

Themes 53

Structure 54

Motifs 55

The Green Light 55

West Egg versus East Egg 57

The Valley of Ashes 58

The Automobile 59

Characters 61

Jay Gatsby 61

Daisy Buchanan 64

Tom Buchanan 67

Myrtle Wilson 69

George Wilson 71

Jordan Baker 72

Nick Carraway 73

Further Reading 76

Further Viewing 76

Further Listening 76

Chapter 5: Later Novels: Tender Is the Night (1934) and The Last Tycoon (1941) 77

Tender Is the Night: Composition 78

Tender Is the Night: Synopsis 80

Tender Is the Night: Interpretations 83

The Last Tycoon: Synopsis 84

The Last Tycoon: Reflections on an Unfinished Novel 85

Further Reading 87

Further Viewing 87

Chapter 6: Short Stories and Essays 89

Short Stories 90

"The Ice Palace" (1920) 90

"May Day" (1920) 91

"Winter Dreams" (1922) 91

"Jacob's Ladder" (1927) 92

"The Last of the Belles" (1929) 93

"Babylon Revisited" (1931) 94

Essays 95

Further Reading 96

Further Viewing 97

Further Listening 97

Conclusion 99

Bibliography 100

Index 103
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F. Scott Fitzgerald; F. Scott Fitzgerald primer: F. Scott Fitzgerald intro; F. Scott Fitzgerald themes; Great Gatsby; Fitzgerald pop culture; Fitzgerald novels; Fitzgerald short stories; reading Fitzgerald; middle school English; high school English