For years F. Scott Fitzgeralds <i>The Great Gatsby</i> has garnered attention from critics as having a relationship to American transcendentalist thought. While most acknowledge Jay Gatsbys corruption and materialism, they continue to hold on to a belief in his supposed idealism and difference from other characters in the novel. Even critics who note irony in the novel do not recant their arguments regarding Gatsbys romanticism. One cannot make a straightforward connection between transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau without noting how Gatsby is truly a perversion of transcendental ideals. Specifically, in examining Gatsby with Emersons concept of self-reliance in mind, it is clear that Fitzgerald could never see Gatsby as a self-reliant individual. Indeed, Gatsby fails in every test that can identify him as being a self-reliant man. He is materialistic; he breaks the law for no larger purpose; he loves an insignificant and vapid woman who is as materialistic as the rest of this corrupt society; he has no true identity; does not dispute the contention that the ideal of self-reliance is noble, it argues that such an ideal is unrealizable in the corrupt and materialistic society of the Jazz Age.

Texte remanié de: Dissertation--Mainz--Universität, 2003. / Bibliogr. p. 373-420.

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This thesis has explored the relationship, in terms of parallels and allusions, of the four complete and one unfinished novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald to his own life experiences. The novels used in this study area This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gat 9 Tender Is the Night, and The Last Tycoon, of which only five and one-half chapters were completed at the time of Fitzgerald's death in December, 1940. This study traced the personal exploitation and the transformation of Fitzgerald's own life experiences, relatives, and acquaintances into his fictional subject matter, characters, and settings.In addition, the thesis has discussed Fitzgerald's friendship with several of his contemporary critics and authors such as: Maxwell Perkins, his publisher; Edmund "Bunny" Wilson, and John Peale Bishop, his Princeton classmates and literary colleagues; and Ernest Hemingway, whom Fitzgerald admired greatly. The influence that these and others had on Fitzgerald's works was also revealed in this study.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Oregon State University, 2008. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-67). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.F.A.)--York University, 2007. Graduate Programme in Theatre. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 57-60). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR29552

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Texte remanié de: Diss. / Bibliogr. p. [211]-225. Index.

"Undertaken from the point of view of the librarian, this appraisal of F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the controversial figures of the 1920's and 1930's, presents information about his life and work, indicates his acceptance as revealed through reviewers' reactions, and assesses his position as a serious writer. The paper deals only with the following books which have appeared in hard covers: This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers, The Beautiful and Damned, The Vegetable, The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men, Tender is the Night, Taps at Reveille, The Last Tycoon, The Portable F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up, Stores, and Afternoon of an Author. The reviews' reactions were secured from reviews located through Book Review Digest"--Introduction. / Carbon copy of typescript. / "June, 1959." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science." / Advisor: Sarah Rebecca Reed, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-87).