F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby/Tender is the Night

The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night are F. Scott Fitzgerald''s best-known novels. They draw on Fitzgerald''s own vivid experiences in the 1920s but transform them into art. This stimulating introductory guide analyses their accomplished style and their concern with the promise and perplexity of modern life.Part I of this indispensable study:- Provides interesting and informed close readings of key passages- Examines how each novel starts and ends- Discusses key themes of society, money, gender and trauma- Outlines the methods of analysis and offers suggestions for further work.Part II supplies essential background material, including:- An account of Fitzgerald''s life- A survey of historical, cultural and literary contexts- Samples of significant criticismAlso featuring a helpful Further Reading section, this volume equips readers with the critical and analytical skills which will enable them to enjoy and explore both novels for themselves.>

Product details

• Authors: Nicolas Tredell, Tredell Nicolas
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.09.2011
• EAN: 9780230292215
• ISBN: 978-0-230-29221-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Analysing Texts; Analysing Texts; Bloomsbury 3PL
• Subjects: Education and learning > Readings/interpretations/reading notes > German; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, gender;knowledge;novel;society;time, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, gender; knowledge; novel; society; time