F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Craft of Fiction

Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph; Lehan, Richard

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“…(Perosa 1980). Examples of this include Richard Lehan's F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Craft of Fiction, and more recently, showing that this is still quite common, Canterbery and Birch's F. Scott Fitzgerald: Under the Influence, in which they attribute his writing throughout his life to influences ranging from his early love Ginevra King, to Zelda, to his late love Sheliah Graham and, of course, to a sense of personal failure (Lehan 1966;Canterbery and Birch 2006). This trend has helped scholars to understand and document where and how Fitzgerald fit into his time period, as his audience becomes farther removed from the time period he wrote in (O'Meara 2002).…”

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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 Politics of F. Scott Fizgerald

Shiveley

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Literary History/Unsolved Mystery:The Great Gatsbyand the Hall-Mills Murder Case

Phelps

2001

ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews

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F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Following of a Grail'

Lupack¹

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F. Scott Fitzgerald incorporated traditional medieval and Arthurian motifs into his novels and short fiction. The wasteland and the grail quest are particularly prominent in Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise , and in The Great Gatsby . A contemporary Merlin is the main character in 'O Russet Witch!,' one of the fantasies in the Tales of the Jazz Age . Fitzgerald's love for medievalism and for the Arthurian legends also carried over into his personal life.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Craft of Fiction

Cited by 13 publications

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The Politics of F. Scott Fizgerald

The Politics of F. Scott Fizgerald

Literary History/Unsolved Mystery:The Great Gatsbyand the Hall-Mills Murder Case

F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Following of a Grail'

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