The Great Gatsby
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Bibliographic Information
The Great Gatsby
(The critics debate / general editor, Michael Scott)
Macmillan Education, 1990
- : hard
- : pbk
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Note
Bibliography: p. 73-77
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Part of "The Critics Debate" series, this book discusses "The Great Gatsby" by Scott Fitzgerald.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Survey: "The Great Gatsby" and myth - the American myth, the non-American myth
- the formalist approach - "The Great Gatsby" as craft, point of view, narrative, symbolism
- the authorial perspective - "winter dreams" and "the sensible thing", "the diamond as big as the Ritz" and "the rich boy", "absolution"
- the socio-historical approach, "the withering of the American dream", the discredited dream, East and West
- character - Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Tom Buchanan, Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker. Part 2 Appraisal: the clock and the moon
- a man's book - "The Great Gatsby" and women
- "The Great Gatsby" and social class
- "The Great Gatsby" and history.
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