The Great Gatsby

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Harold Bloom
Infobase Publishing, 2006 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 145 pages
In a single, engaging volume, The Great Gatsby presents a helpful literary guide to one of America's most prized classic novels. First published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby captured the spirit of the Jazz Age and examined
 

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Contents

Introduction
7
Biographical Sketch
10
The Story Behind the Story
15
List of Characters
18
Summary and Analysis
20
Critical Views
76
MATTHEW J BRUCCOLI LOOKS AT FITZGERALDS MATURATION AS REFLECTED IN THE NOVEL
78
DAN SEITERS ON IMAGERY AND SYMBOLISM IN THE GREAT GATSBY
81
JAMES E MILLER JR ON THE MEANING OF THE NOVEL
111
SCOTT DONALDSON ON GATSBY AND THE HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS FOR GATSBY
114
JOYCE A ROWE ON GATSBYS RELATIONSHIP WITH NICK
119
JAMES LW WEST III ON THE ORIGINAL TITLES SIGNIFICANCE TO THEME
121
SCOTT DONALDSON ON POSSESSIONS AND CHARACTER IN THE GREAT GATSBY
122
Works by F Scott Fitzgerald
130
Annotated Bibliography
131
Contributors
135

JOHN F CALLAHAN ON FITZGERALDS USE OF AMERICAN ICONOGRAPHY
97
MILTON R STERN ON THE AMERICAN DREAM AND FITZGERALDS ROMANTIC EXCESSES
102
JAMES E MILLER JR DISCUSSES STYLISTIC APPROACH TO FIRST PERSON
108
Acknowledgments
138
Index
140
Copyright

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About the author (2006)

Harold Bloom was born on July 11, 1930 in New York City. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Cornell in 1951 and his Doctorate from Yale in 1955. After graduating from Yale, Bloom remained there as a teacher, and was made Sterling Professor of Humanities in 1983. Bloom's theories have changed the way that critics think of literary tradition and has also focused his attentions on history and the Bible. He has written over twenty books and edited countless others. He is one of the most famous critics in the world and considered an expert in many fields. In 2010 he became a founding patron of Ralston College, a new institution in Savannah, Georgia, that focuses on primary texts. His works include Fallen Angels, Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems, Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life and The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of The King James Bible. Harold Bloom passed away on October 14, 2019 in New Haven, at the age of 89.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Great Gatsby
BG Series
Bloom's Guides
EditorHarold Bloom
PublisherInfobase Publishing, 2006
ISBN1438114540, 9781438114545
Length145 pages
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Juvenile Nonfiction / Literary Criticism & Collections
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