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Tender Is the Night and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Sentimental Identities /
In this fascinating study, Chris Messenger posits F. Scott Fitzgerald as a great master of sentiment in modern American fiction. Sentimental forms both attracted and repelled Fitzgerald while defining his deepest impulses as a prose writer. Messenger demonstrates that the sentimental identities, ref...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
The University of Alabama Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | In this fascinating study, Chris Messenger posits F. Scott Fitzgerald as a great master of sentiment in modern American fiction. Sentimental forms both attracted and repelled Fitzgerald while defining his deepest impulses as a prose writer. Messenger demonstrates that the sentimental identities, refractions, and influences Fitzgerald explores in Tender Is the Night define key components in his affective life, which evolved into a powerful aesthetic that informed his vocation as a modernist writer. In "Tender Is the Night" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Sentimental Identities, Messenger traces the r. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780817387976 |