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Enchanted Places The Use of Setting in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction
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Aiping Zhang
Book Code: GM0238
ISBN: 0-313-30238-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30238-1
208 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 9/30/1997
List Price: $85.00 (UK Sterling Price: £47.95)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions to the Study of American Literature
Series Number: 2
Description: Most of Fitzgerald's novels and stories start as a romance of love or a fantasy of extravagant glamour, but as the settings and the interplay between characters and the places they live are carefully examined, an emblem-like quality is discovered in their deceptively simple configuration. The first full-length study of Fitzgerald's unparalleled representation of Jazz Age America, this book analyzes an essential, but relatively uncultivated part of the artistry in Fitzgerald's fiction: his use of domestic and urban settings. Fitzgerald's use of these settings as a rich source of imagery objectifies social trends and individual desires. Each setting is no longer just a locale, or a site for a story's action, but a sophisticated device, an integral part of the story designed to convey a unique vision of life in a profound way. Such parabolic quality, the author argues, gives Fitzgerald's fiction enormous possibilities of temporal span and multiple situations, as well as a microcosmic capacity for containing the complexities of reality.
Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Home: A Showcase of Human Experience
  • Bars: Windows of Society
  • Schools: Cradles of the Elite
  • City: A Land of Glamour and Despair
  • Hollywood: A World of Art, Business, and Rivalry
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 97-9379
LCC Class: PS3511
Dewey Class: 813
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