{"title":"Agrégation Anglais 2023. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender Is the Night","authors":"Daniel Ihrmark, Johan Nilsson","doi":"10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.20.0281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.20.0281","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40217,"journal":{"name":"F Scott Fitzgerald Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48680852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Watch Out or These Other Races Will Have Control of Things\": Witnessing Race and Racial Witnessing in The Great Gatsby","authors":"Madeline Gottlieb","doi":"10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.20.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.20.0027","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Although countless scholars have approached the subject of racism and racialization in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 masterpiece The Great Gatsby, few have identified a common theme hinted at by Tom Buchanan in his dramatic rant when he declares, \"Civilization's going to pieces … the idea is if we don't look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged\"—namely, the difference between \"looking\" and witnessing. Throughout the novel, in fact, the many white characters' physical sight of race and their witness to racially hostile situations are the dramatic device through which they acknowledge and boast of their white supremacist beliefs. This article explores the connection between race, sight, and witnessing in Gatsby, and interrogates the significant role of white characters' witnessing of race and racialized characters' moments of witnessing throughout the text. Ultimately, it aims both to continue the extensive work concerning pernicious white supremacy in The Great Gatsby, as well as propose a new direction for this conversation by identifying the ability of Fitzgerald's characters of color both to witness situations and to act in them.","PeriodicalId":40217,"journal":{"name":"F Scott Fitzgerald Review","volume":"20 1","pages":"27 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43328745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Paper Dolls of Zelda Fitzgerald","authors":"J. West","doi":"10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.20.0232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.20.0232","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40217,"journal":{"name":"F Scott Fitzgerald Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42126829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Romance of Regionalism in the Work of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald: The South Side of Paradise","authors":"P. Bonds","doi":"10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.20.0273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.20.0273","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40217,"journal":{"name":"F Scott Fitzgerald Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45972640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"F. Scott Fitzgerald on Silent Film","authors":"Lara Rodríguez Sieweke","doi":"10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.20.0219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.20.0219","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40217,"journal":{"name":"F Scott Fitzgerald Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48697165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Responding to The Great Gatsby: Can the Reading Process Itself Reinforce Racist Assumptions?","authors":"Jacob Steenis","doi":"10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.20.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.20.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In recent decades, The Great Gatsby has become a centerpiece of American culture and pedagogy as many high school students find it on their reading lists. Common Core standards used in public schools often dismiss the reader as a key component in the production of a novel's meaning. This approach urges students to think more about what a text \"is\" and \"means\" rather than considering how meaning relies on the reader's individual personal experience. By applying reader-response theory to Gatsby, we can assess the impact of our beliefs—specifically those involving race—on our reception of characters and scenes. In contrast with other, more racially controversial novels frequently taught in high schools (e.g., Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), The Great Gatsby can be a comparatively uncontroversial vehicle for students to explore their own engagement with what Barbara and Karen Fields term \"racecraft.\" This perspective utilizes the status of Gatsby as a cultural fixture and transforms it into a tool for students and lay readers alike to assess critically their own participation in the reproduction of racial structures. Such analysis opposes the recent movement to remove critical race theory from public schools, a movement that threatens to debilitate students' abilities to navigate the often complicated and confusing contours of American racecraft.","PeriodicalId":40217,"journal":{"name":"F Scott Fitzgerald Review","volume":"20 1","pages":"1 - 26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48581823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Who's This Welles?\": Pat Hobby's Take on Hollywood Celebrity Culture","authors":"Cam Cobb","doi":"10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.20.0190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.20.0190","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The seventeen Pat Hobby stories F. Scott Fitzgerald produced in 1939–40 to finance the writing of his final, incomplete novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, have long been dismissed as minor efforts. The installment widely considered the best of the series—\"Pat Hobby and Orson Welles,\" which appeared in Esquire in May 1940—attracts attention mostly because of its historical importance: as its title suggests, it contrasts Fitzgerald's hapless, aging Hollywood hack to the real-life wunderkind director who was in 1939 arriving in Tinsel Town on a whirlwind of publicity over his accomplishments in the theater and on the radio. \"Pat Hobby and Orson Welles\" offers a timely, often arch take on the artistic type that Welles quickly came to epitomize: the auteur, the creative genius who proves every bit as erratic and quixotic as he is visionary. Only six months after Fitzgerald's death on 21 December 1940, Welles's masterpiece Citizen Kane would open to critical acclaim but a disastrous box office run, due mainly to libel threats from William Randolph Hearst, the ostensible inspiration for its titular character. While Fitzgerald did not live to see Welles's landmark film or the director's subsequent tempestuous career, \"Pat Hobby and Orson Welles\" identifies many of the anxieties the industry would suffer over the unreliability and celebrity hyperbole that auteurs would generate as they threw production processes into upheaval by pursuing art. In the end, Orson Welles as Fitzgerald portrays him is no Monroe Stahr, the author's image of the charismatic leader who in The Love of the Last Tycoon is at once a consummate artist and businessman.","PeriodicalId":40217,"journal":{"name":"F Scott Fitzgerald Review","volume":"20 1","pages":"190 - 205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48714696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nick Carraway as Telemachus: Homeric Influences and Narrative Bias in The Great Gatsby","authors":"Allen Ascher","doi":"10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.19.1.0203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.19.1.0203","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In May 1924, when the Fitzgeralds moved to the Riviera to complete The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald wrote to Thomas Boyd, “I’m going to read nothing but Homer + Homeric literature—and history 540–1200 A.D. until I finish my novel, + I hope to God I don’t see a soul for six months.” Reading Gatsby in the context of the Iliad and the Odyssey reveals a number of thematically significant parallels and contrasts between Fitzgerald’s characters and the major figures in the Homeric epics. Jay Gatsby, as Fitzgerald traces his life from beginning to end, is a type of both Achilles, a mythic culture hero in a long quest to realize his destiny, and Odysseus, who works to “repeat the past” after a twenty-year absence. Daisy is the Penelope who determines the end of Gatsby’s/Odysseus’s quest; Tom is Antinous, the suitor who disrupts the hero’s house, and, in a major inversion in the novel, destroys the hero’s return. Most conspicuous is the parallel between Nick Carraway, a lost figure who finds a renewal of the promise of life in Gatsby, and Telemachus, the son in search of his father. Taken together, these parallels and contrasts reveal the dramatic functions of Fitzgerald’s characters, their relationships, their sometimes stark actions and responses to one another, and Fitzgerald’s epic theme of American aspiration in the 1920s.","PeriodicalId":40217,"journal":{"name":"F Scott Fitzgerald Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"203 - 221"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48225755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Invisible Song: Finding Scandalabra's Own Voice","authors":"Marcela Lanius","doi":"10.5325/FSCOTFITZREVI.18.1.0105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/FSCOTFITZREVI.18.1.0105","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Zelda Fitzgerald's lone play, Scandalabra, is traditionally dismissed either as a minor literary curiosity that followed the critical and commercial failure of her only published novel, Save Me the Waltz, or as a source of domestic conflict during a turbulent, contentious time in the Fitzgeralds' marriage when the husband accused his wife of poaching upon his artistic territory. As a result, the play has not yet been subject to proper study or commentary. A closer reading of it, however, reveals that this forgotten piece offers a fascinating, and even innovative, exercise in dramatic language, especially in its use of stage directions. By reading Scandalabra first as a text relevant to a specific movement within the tradition of theatrical realism, second as a further development of the voice its author was crafting in her short stories, and finally as a play that can benefit from a new theatrical context that understands stage directions as a place for formal and linguistic innovation, it is possible to understand the play not as an extravagance of an artist unaccustomed to writing for the theater, but rather as a conscious effort in Fitzgerald's development as a writer.","PeriodicalId":40217,"journal":{"name":"F Scott Fitzgerald Review","volume":"18 1","pages":"105 - 127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47126053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}