Fitzgerald & Hemingway : works and days /
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 tomorro...
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Columbia University Press, 2009.
2009
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Table of 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.
