Donaldson Fitzgerald and Hemingway

Works and Days
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-51978-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 520 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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, Donaldson traces the creative genius of these authors and the surprising overlaps among their works. Fitzgerald and Hemingway both wrote fiction out of their experiences rather than about them. Therefore Donaldson pursues both biography and criticism in these essays, with a deep commitment to close reading. He traces the influence of celebrity culture on the legacies of both writers, matches an analysis of Hemingway's Spanish Civil War writings to a treatment of Fitzgerald's left-leaning tendencies, and contrasts the averted gaze in Hemingway's fiction with the role of possessions in The Great Gatsby. He devotes several essays to four novels, Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, The Sun Also Rises, and A Farewell to Arms, and others to lesser-known short stories. Based on years of research in the Fitzgerald and Hemingway archives and brimming with Donaldson's trademark wit and insight, this irresistible anthology moves the study of American literature in bold new directions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Donaldson, Scott

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part One: The Search for Home

1. St. Paul Boy
2. Fitzgerald's Romance with the South
Part Two: Love, Money, and Class

3. This Side of Paradise: Fitzgerald's Coming of Age Novel
4. Possessions in The Great Gatsby: Reading Gatsby Closely
5. The Trouble with Nick: Reading Gatsby Closely
6. Money and Marriage in Fitzgerald's Stories
7. A Short History of Tender Is the Night
Part Three: Fitzgerald and His Times

8. Fitzgerald's Nonfiction
9. The Crisis of "The Crack-Up"
10. Fitzgerald's Political Development
Part Four: Requiem

11. A Death in Hollywood: F. Scott Fitzgerald Remembered
Part Five: Getting Started

12. Hemingway of The Star
Part Six: The Craftsman at Work

13. "A Very Short Story" as Therapy
14. Preparing for the End of "A Canary for One"
15. The Averted Gaze in Hemingway's Fiction
Part Seven: The Two Great Novels

16. Hemingway's Morality of Compensation
17. Humor as a Measure of Character
18. A Farewell to Arms as Love Story
19. Frederic's Escape and the Pose of Passivity
Part Eight: Censorship

20. Censorship and A Farewell to Arms
21. Protecting the Troops from Hemingway: An Episode in Censorship
Part Nine: Literature and Politics

22. The Last Great Cause: Hemingway's Spanish Civil War Writing
Part Ten: Last Things

23. Hemingway and Suicide
24. Hemingway and Fame
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Scott Donaldson is one of the nation's leading literary biographers. His books include the acclaimed Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Poet's Life and Archibald MacLeish: An American Life, which won the Ambassador Book Award for biography. His other works are Poet in America: Winfield Townley Scott; By Force of Will: The Life and Art of Ernest Hemingway; Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald; John Cheever: A Biography; and Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald: The Rise and Fall of a Literary Friendship.