LITERARY PRAGMATICS: A NEW DISCIPLINE. THE EXAMPLE OF FITZGERALD'S 'GREAT GATSBY.'.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' is another example of literature legitimizing class differences, as it embodies a belief in the "ideological universality of bourgeois culture." The establishment of Fitzgerald as a romantic literary figure owes much to marketable nostalgia for the 1920's and...

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Publicado en:Literature & History Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 79 - 97
Autor principal: Cox, Geof
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Spring2003
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Sumario:F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' is another example of literature legitimizing class differences, as it embodies a belief in the "ideological universality of bourgeois culture." The establishment of Fitzgerald as a romantic literary figure owes much to marketable nostalgia for the 1920's and to calculated efforts by the publishing industry to propagate a myth about Fitzgerald's colorful life.