Fitzgerald & Hemingway : works and days / Scott Donaldson.

Author/creator Donaldson, Scott
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, ©2009.
Descriptionvii, 511 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Variant title Fitzgerald and Hemingway
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [479]-494) and index.
LCCN 2008049122
ISBN9780231148160 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN023114816X (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS3511.I9 Z589 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold