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American icon : Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby in critical and cultural context /
Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' is widely seen as the quintessential "great American novel," and the extensive criticism on the work bears out its significance in American letters. 'American Icon' traces its reception and its rise to canonical status in American li...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, N.Y. :
Camden House,
2011.
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| Colección: | Studies in American literature and culture. Literary criticism in perspective.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' is widely seen as the quintessential "great American novel," and the extensive criticism on the work bears out its significance in American letters. 'American Icon' traces its reception and its rise to canonical status in American literature, popular culture, and educational experience. It focuses on how and why the novel, after very mixed initial reviews and having been virtually forgotten by the time of Fitzgerald's death in 1940, came to be considered a masterpiece that has become part of the fabric of American culture in a way that few other works. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 162 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781571138156 1571138153 |