Fitzgerald & Hemingway : works and days
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Fitzgerald & Hemingway : works and days
Columbia University Press, c2009
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Fitzgerald and Hemingway
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-494) and index
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Description
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway might have been contemporaries, but our understanding of their work often rests on simple differences. Hemingway wrestled with war, fraternity, and the violence of nature. Fitzgerald satirized money and class and the never-ending pursuit of a material tomorrow. Through the provocative arguments of Scott Donaldson, however, the affinities between these two authors become brilliantly clear. The result is a reorientation of how we read twentieth-century American literature. Known for his penetrating studies of Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Donaldson traces the creative genius of these authors and the surprising overlaps among their works. Fitzgerald and Hemingway both wrote fiction out of their experiences rather than about them. Therefore Donaldson pursues both biography and criticism in these essays, with a deep commitment to close reading. He traces the influence of celebrity culture on the legacies of both writers, matches an analysis of Hemingway's Spanish Civil War writings to a treatment of Fitzgerald's left-leaning tendencies, and contrasts the averted gaze in Hemingway's fiction with the role of possessions in The Great Gatsby.
He devotes several essays to four novels, Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, The Sun Also Rises, and A Farewell to Arms, and others to lesser-known short stories. Based on years of research in the Fitzgerald and Hemingway archives and brimming with Donaldson's trademark wit and insight, this irresistible anthology moves the study of American literature in bold new directions.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part One: The Search for Home 1. St. Paul Boy 2. Fitzgerald's Romance with the South Part Two: Love, Money, and Class 3. This Side of Paradise: Fitzgerald's Coming of Age Novel 4. Possessions in The Great Gatsby: Reading Gatsby Closely 5. The Trouble with Nick: Reading Gatsby Closely 6. Money and Marriage in Fitzgerald's Stories 7. A Short History of Tender Is the Night Part Three: Fitzgerald and His Times 8. Fitzgerald's Nonfiction 9. The Crisis of "The Crack-Up" 10. Fitzgerald's Political Development Part Four: Requiem 11. A Death in Hollywood: F. Scott Fitzgerald Remembered Part Five: Getting Started 12. Hemingway of The Star Part Six: The Craftsman at Work 13. "A Very Short Story" as Therapy 14. Preparing for the End of "A Canary for One" 15. The Averted Gaze in Hemingway's Fiction Part Seven: The Two Great Novels 16. Hemingway's Morality of Compensation 17. Humor as a Measure of Character 18. A Farewell to Arms as Love Story 19. Frederic's Escape and the Pose of Passivity Part Eight: Censorship 20. Censorship and A Farewell to Arms 21. Protecting the Troops from Hemingway: An Episode in Censorship Part Nine: Literature and Politics 22. The Last Great Cause: Hemingway's Spanish Civil War Writing Part Ten: Last Things 23. Hemingway and Suicide 24. Hemingway and Fame Bibliography Index
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