Great Gatsby and Modern Times by Ronald Berman

Great Gatsby and Modern Times by Ronald Berman

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Zusammenfassung

Using editorials, columns, advertisements, silent film, architecture, and photography, this title develops the theme of modern consciousness.

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Great Gatsby and Modern Times by Ronald Berman

"A stunning piece of         work. If Fitzgerald could have wished for one reader of The Great Gatsby,         it would have been Ronald Berman. Berman's criticism creates an ideal         companion piece to the novel--as brilliantly illuminating about America         as it is about fiction, and composed with as much thought and style."                 -- Roger Rosenblatt       "An impressive study         that brilliantly highlights the oneness of Fitzgerald's art with the overall         context of modernism." -- Milton R. Stern, author of The Golden         Moment: The Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald       "Citing films, dates,         places, schedules, Broadway newsstands, and the spoils of manufacture,         the author, never lapsing into critical jargon, locates the characters         in 'the moving present.' Gatsby, the first of the great novels         to emerge from B movies, uses the language of commodities, advertisements,         photography, cinematography, and Horatio Alger to present models of identity         for characters absorbed in and by what is communicated. . . . Berman concludes         that Gatsby 'reassembled' rather than 'invented' himself."         -- A. Hirsh, Choice
"A stunning piece of workIf Fitzgerald could have wished for one reader of The Great Gatsby, it would have been Ronald Berman. Berman's criticism creates an ideal companion piece to the novel--as brilliantly illuminating about America as it is about fiction, and composed with as much thought and style." Roger Rosenblatt "An impressive study that brilliantly highlights the oneness of Fitzgerald's art with the overall context of modernism." Milton R. Stern, author of The Golden Moment: The Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald "Citing films, dates, places, schedules, Broadway newsstands, and the spoils of manufacture, the author, never lapsing into critical jargon, locates the characters in 'the moving present.' Gatsby, the first of the great novels to emerge from B movies, uses the language of commodities, advertisements, photography, cinematography, and Horatio Alger to present models of identity for characters absorbed in and by what is communicated... Berman concludes that Gatsby 'reassembled' rather than 'invented' himself." A. Hirsh, Choice

Ronald Stanley Berman is Professor of Literature at the University of California at San Diego and author of The Great Gatsby and Modern Times.

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ISBN 13 9780252065897
ISBN 10 0252065891
Titel Great Gatsby and Modern Times
Autor Ronald Berman
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsjahr 1996-08-01
Seitenanzahl 208
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