After pointing out how, in The Great Gatsby, Nick presents three artistic visualizations of Jay Gatsby – as a young man from the provinces, as a would-be carnival king and as a romantic character (in ...the Bakhtinian sense) – I narrow my focus to the third of these visualizations. I argue that Bakhtin’s theories in ‘Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity’ (1924-1927) give us the concepts and patterns that best enable us to understand Nick’s strategies in the strand of his narrative that traces the process by which he achieves and gives form to his understanding of Gatsby’s inner self.
Tras señalar cómo, en The Great Gatsby, Nick presenta tres visualizaciones artísticas de Jay Gatsby – joven provinciano, aspirante a rey del carnaval, y personaje romántico (en el sentido de Bajtín) – me centro en la tercera de estas visualizaciones. Sostengo que las teorías de Bajtín en ‘Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity’ (1924-1927) nos marcan las pautas para comprender las estrategias de Nick en el hilo de su relato sobre el proceso conformador de su percepción de la personalidad más profunda de Gatsby.
This article discusses the Americanness' of Dylan's 'American idiom' in the context of Dylan's profoundly international cultural influence. Dylan is placed in a recognisable US tradition of the ...American artist who is interested in 'self-invention' and 'self-architecturing' almost as strongly as he is in distinctive reworkings of received cultural traditions. Dylan's interest in the American vernacular, in moving across art forms (from poetry to cinema to music to writing), his ongoing acts of self-invention and pioneer-like reinvention (Emerson, Gatsby) are explored in relation to Scorsese's documentary and the interpretations of that film (and Dylan's stature) offered by Greil Marcus and Don DeLillo. The article connects Dylan to a range of US and international (French, Australian) literary texts (prose, poems) in order to explore the resonances of Dylan's Americanist thematics beyond the US so that throughout the globe, Dylan's invocations of modes of reinvention strike chords everywhere.
Hope is a word that has re-emerged in the light of Obama's stunning win in the United States election. In this time of economic gloom and the reality of bleak recession and unprecedented job losses ...the United States has embraced the hopeful message of Barack Obama. For many years 'hope' has been a word that has been lost, forgotten, and banished to the margins of romantic longing and wishful thinking. Hope is also a word that has been much discussed in relation to the iconic The Great Gatsby but usually in a negative fashion to demonstrate the unattainability of the American dream. Marcella Taylor called Gatsby "the unfinished American Epic" which focused on the "passing of the last utopian frontier" and suggested the significance of this passing on American society as a whole. In the last few months, however, hope has made a return and one gets the feeling that Fitzgerald's words 'but that's no matter-to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther . . . And one fine morning' - are once again being heard. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
Zooming in on the New York boroughs of Manhattan and Queens, Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker presents a curiously Gatsbyesque moment that exemplifies the dynamism of physical and social mobility. At ...the core of the novel is the narrator Henry Park's observation of John Kwang, a charismatic Korean immigrant city councilman from Queens. Their one-time ride to Manhattan in the pre-dawn hours resonates with a specific moment in The Great Gatsby, calling to mind Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby's drive over the Queensboro Bridge. Both scenes are mobilized by motion, excitement, and anticipation set against the New York cityscape, gesturing toward social minorities' upward mobility and inclusion.
The second chapter of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby opens with Nick Carraway describing the desolation of the valley of ashes and the misery of George Wilson's garage lying on the edge of ...that hellish place. With the help of the 1927 Beicher-Hyde Queens County Atlas and the 1924 aerial map of New York City, one can locate Wilson's garage with a fair degree of accuracy. Fitzgerald lived in Great Neck between October 1922 and April 1924 and began writing Gatsby while there. This section of Long Island, known as the "Gold Coast," became its setting, and Fitzgerald drew heavily on the reality he knew, and there are some readily identifiable landmarks in Nick's descriptions. Here, Sweeney examines Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
Whether or not Gatsby suffers agony akin to Jesus's, like Jesus he keeps his vigil in a garden, the back garden of the Buchanan's house. ... just as Jesus suffers alone while his disciples sleep, ...Gatsby is left alone by Nick Carraway, who goes home to sleep.
The end of chapter six of "The Great Gatsby" describes both Gatsby's metaphysical union with Daisy and Nick's failure to express to the reader the complete significance of Gatsby's courtship with ...Daisy. However, in recounting this exploration of Gatsby's Xanadu, Nick laments he has lost the "elusive rhythm" that would best explain Gatsby's dream to the reader. This consumption of the milk of wonder, connected to the narrator's futile attempt to express the reality of his experience, alludes to one of the best-known poems from English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan."
Although Anton Chekhov's influence on F. Scott Fitzgerald was first noted by Doug Steinberg in his article "Lights from a Distance," published in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review (2009), Matthew J. ...Bruccoli's "The Composition and Revision of The Great Gatsby" (in his introduction to the Cambridge edition) makes no mention of the potential influence of Anton Chekhov's "The Lady and the Dog" on The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald, who admired Chekhov, was likely to have known "The Lady with the Dog" in the Garnett translation, used here, and to have found in that story a template for Gatsby. The striking similarities between Dimitri Gurov and Jay Gatsby cannot be lightly dismissed. Here, Levitt talks about the similarities of the novels The Lady and the Dog and The Great Gatsby.
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