Ronald Berman, noted Fitzgerald scholar, makes it clear that accepted interpretations of The Great Gatsby and of Fitzgerald's work in general must be changed. Berman ...

A study of the philosophical, intellectual, and political influences on the artistic creations of Fitzgerald and key early American modernist writers

By patiently mapping the connectedness of these philosophers, historians, literary critics, and writers, Berman opens a new gateway into the era."--BOOK JACKET.

In Translating Modernism Ronald Berman continues his career-long study of the ways that intellectual and philosophical ideas informed and transformed the work of America’s ...

A noted scholar offers fresh ways of looking at two legendary American authors within the context of the decade's popular culture, philosophy, and intellectual history.

"From the 1920s and for a generation thereafter, understandings of time, place, and civilization were subjected to a barrage of new conceptions. Berman probes the work of three ...

This book is a study of three of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald's literary and artistic mentors who helped to intellectually and philosophically influence his life and writings.

The new left, religion, the Negro, literature-- these and other subjects of intellectual concern are dealt with in this controversial study of intellectuals in America.

Advertising and Social Change presents: guidelines for evaluating advertising; theories of social control; analyses of how advertising shapes our social expectations and ...