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...
| Publicado en: | Literature & History Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 79 - 97 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Spring2003
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| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| 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. |
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