description: A valuable critical guide to The Great Gatsby and Fitzgerald's thematic preoccupations centering around the author's dialectic with the morality of the 1920s and that of what he described as "old America." Berman (literature, U. of California) skillfully discloses Fitzgerald's philosophical awareness, influences by William James, George Santayana, and Edmund Wilson, and the echoes of those influences voiced by characters such as Gatsby and Nick Carraway. The volume was the recipient of the 1995 Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Literature. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
language: English
title: The Great Gatsby: And Fitzgerald's World of Ideas
titlecomplete: The Great Gatsby: And Fitzgerald's World of Ideas
genres: Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 10
publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr