num_pages: 208
description:     "A stunning piece of        work. If Fitzgerald could have wished for one reader of The Great Gatsby,        it would have been Ronald Berman. Berman's criticism creates an ideal        companion piece to the novel--as brilliantly illuminating about America        as it is about fiction, and composed with as much thought and style."               -- Roger Rosenblatt      "An impressive study        that brilliantly highlights the oneness of Fitzgerald's art with the overall        context of modernism." -- Milton R. Stern, author of The Golden        The Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald      "Citing films, dates,        places, schedules, Broadway newsstands, and the spoils of manufacture,        the author, never lapsing into critical jargon, locates the characters        in 'the moving present.' Gatsby, the first of the great novels        to emerge from B movies, uses the language of commodities, advertisements,        photography, cinematography, and Horatio Alger to present models of identity        for characters absorbed in and by what is communicated. . . . Berman concludes        that Gatsby 'reassembled' rather than 'invented' himself."        -- A. Hirsh, Choice 
language: English
title: Great Gatsby and Modern Times
titlecomplete: Great Gatsby and Modern Times
ratings_count: 9
publisher: University of Illinois Press