Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and the Twenties
By: Ronald Berman.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Fitzgerald, F. Scott 1896-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation; Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Criticism and interpretation; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Nineteen twenties
Description: "Both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway came into their own in the 1920s and did some of their best writing during that decade. In a series of interrelated essays, Ronald Berman considers an array of novels and short stories by both authors within the context of the decade's popular culture, philosophy, and intellectual history. As Berman shows, the thought of Fitzgerald and Hemingway went considerably past the limits of such labels as the Jazz Age or the Lost Generation." "Berman's essays are driven and connected by a focused line of inquiry into Fitzgerald's and Hemingway's concerns with dogma both religious and secular, with new and old ideas of selfhood, and, particularly in the case of Hemingway, with the way we understand, explain, and transmit experience."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-171) and index.