F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great GatsbyHarold Bloom Self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby epitomizes the decadence of the 1920s Jazz Age in this tale of;mobility and decline, told with detached curiosity by his neighbor and confidant Nick Carraway. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Disembodied Voices and Narrating Bodies in The Great Gatsby | 13 |
An Analysis of the Decadence of Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby | 39 |
Narrative Knots and Narrative Unfolding | 59 |
The Great Gatsbys Aesthetics of NonIdentity | 71 |
Pastoral Mode and Language in The Great Gatsby | 97 |
The Great Gatsby and Carnival in a Bakhtinian Perspective | 109 |
The Great Gatsby and The Obscene Word | 125 |
The American Carnival of The Great Gatsby | 145 |
Reading Gatsby Closely | 157 |
Chronology | 167 |
Contributors | 169 |
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Acknowledgments | 175 |
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