Self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby epitomizes the decadence of the 1920s Jazz Age in this tale of mobility and decline, told with detached curiosity by his neighbor and confidant Nick Carraway. This new edition offers a selection of contemporary critical commentary on this classic American novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Also in this volume is an introductory essay by Yale literature professor Harold Bloom, a bibliography, a chronology of Fitzgerald's life, and an index for quick reference.
Contents:
Disembodied voices and narrating bodies in The great Gatsby / Barbara Hochman Deceitful traces of power : an analysis of the decadence of Tom Buchanan in The great Gatsby / Alberto Lena The great Gatsby, the text as construct : narrative knots and narrative unfolding / Richard Lehan The great Gatsby's aesthetics of non-identity / John Hilgart Pastoral mode and language in The great Gatsby / Janet Giltrow and David Stouck " --and the long secret extravaganza was played out" : The great Gatsby and carnival in a Bakhtinian perspective / Winifred Farrant Bevilacqua The great Gatsby and the obscene word / Barbara Will The American carnival of The great Gatsby / Philip McGowan The trouble with Nick : reading Gatsby closely / Scott Donaldson.