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Author Donaldson, Scott, 1928-2020.

Title Fitzgerald & Hemingway : works and days / Scott Donaldson.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 511 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Paperback edition, 2011.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-494) and index.
Contents pt. 1. The search for home. St. Paul boy -- Fitzgerald's romance with the south -- pt. 2: Love, money, and class. "This side of paradise": Fitzgerald's coming of age novel -- Possessions in "the Great Gatsby": Reading Gatsby closely -- The trouble with Nick: Reading Gatsby closely -- Money and marriage in Fitzgerald's stories -- A short history of "Tender is the night" -- pt. 3. Fitzgerald and his times. Fitzgerald's nonfiction -- The crisis of "The Crack-up" -- Fitzgerald's political development -- pt. 4. Requiem. A death in Hollywood: Fitzgerald remembered. -- Ernest Hemingway: pt. 5. Getting started. Hemingway of "The star" -- pt. 6. The craftsman at work. "A very short story" as therapy -- Preparing for the end of "A canary for one" -- The averted gaze in Hemingway's fiction -- pt. 7. Hemingway's morality of compensation -- Humor as a measure of character -- "A farewell to arms" as love story -- Frederic's escape and the pose of passivity -- pt. 8. Censorship. Censoring "A farewell to arms" -- Protecting the troops from Hemingway: an episode in censorship -- pt. 9: Literature and politics. The last great cause: Hemingway's Spanish Civil War writing -- pt. 10: Last things. Hemingway and suicide -- Hemingway and fame.
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Summary 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,
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Subject Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.
Criticism and interpretation.
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.
Fitzgerald, Francis Scott.
Hemingway, Ernest.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Title Fitzgerald and Hemingway
Other Form: Print version: Donaldson, Scott, 1928- Fitzgerald & Hemingway. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2008049122
ISBN 9780231519786 (electronic book)
0231519788 (electronic book)
9780231148160 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
023114816X (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780231148177 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
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