Dear Scott/Dear Max. The Fitzgerald-Perkins Correspondence

LaHood, Marvin J.; Fitzgerald, F. Scott; Perkins, Maxwell E.; Kuehl, John; Bryer, Jackson R.

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“…This is evident in the many letters he wrote back and forth with his publisher and friends, for instance(Kuehl and Bryer 1991).10 Even more often, this widespread criticism is documented but uncited. This speaks to a general perception, which no one bother to trace the exact origins of.11 While most early critics lauded the form of Fitzgerald's novel, there were almost as many negative reviews of the novel as there were positive reviews.…”

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The Politics of F. Scott Fizgerald

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F. Scott Fitzgerald is valued for his contribution to literary arts, culture and his discussion of the American Dream. I argue that his discussion of the American Dream was a lens through which he gave readers access to political insights and an education about political philosophy, American politics, virtue, and reasoning. The American Dream, at its greatest, for Fitzgerald is a nation building myth but at its lowest is a dull materialistic construct. Throughout his works Fitzgerald connects philosophic ideas to the American Dream in attempts to educate and ennoble his readers. The ability to judge well is a critical piece of self-government that was a focus of Fitzgerald's throughout his body of work. In The Beautiful and Damned, by giving weight to Platonic ideals of beauty and goodness, and Platonic heuristics like the allegory of the cave he attempted to negate the detrimental effects of nihilism in America at his time and after. In The Great Gatsby, by presenting virtue of the contemplative life that could be cultivated by his readers, in his time, and including esoteric teachings on those virtues and values he attempted to negate the detrimental effects of materialism on the American dream. Finally, in The Last Tycoon, by articulating an American alternative to the philosopher-king he put forward a vision of statesmanship that could mitigate the effects of materialism and keep the American Dream alive against a socialist attack.

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The Last Tycoon and Max Eastman: Fitzgerald's Complete Political Primer

Joy¹

1987

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Unfortunately for American letters, when F. Scott Fitzgerald died he left behind a brilliant and extensive but critically problematical set of fragments of a Hollywood novel, tentatively entitled Stahr a Romance or The Love of the Last Tycoon A Western, but published as The Last Tycoon. Although the published edition has been available for fortyodd years, the need to decipher its unfinished design persists. The plot is cut off; the disorderly notes provide contradictions and minimal help in interpretation; the extant texts exist in a number of states, none final; and Edmund Wilson's edition raises grave doubts. Nevertheless, Tycoon is a most ambitiously planned novel, conceived in the moral and metaphorical amplitude of Fitzgerald's full artistic maturity, assimilating at least as absolutely as elsewhere in the canon his cultural perceptions and ambiguities regarding the quality of American civilization.

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Donne's Compass at the Death Scene in Fitzgerald's THE GREAT GATSBY

Dilworth

2009

The Explicator

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Dear Scott/Dear Max. The Fitzgerald-Perkins Correspondence

Cited by 28 publications

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The Politics of F. Scott Fizgerald

The Politics of F. Scott Fizgerald

The Last Tycoon and Max Eastman: Fitzgerald's Complete Political Primer

Donne's Compass at the Death Scene in Fitzgerald's THE GREAT GATSBY

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