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STUDY OF THE INITIATION THEME IN THE WORKS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Title
A STUDY OF THE INITIATION THEME IN THE WORKS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD.
Creator
MCFREDERICK, CAROL ANN., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
Abstract/Description
This thesis explores the initiation theme as it relates to F. Scott Fitzgerald's work. The Basil Duke Lee series which involves the learning experiences between the ages of eleven and seventeen serves as a point of comparison with other fiction by Fitzgerald. Basil Lee's response to initiation is compared and contrasted with masculine protagonists like Anson Hunter, Anthony Patch, Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway and Dick Diver and with feminine characters like Josephine Perry. A study is made to...
Show moreThis thesis explores the initiation theme as it relates to F. Scott Fitzgerald's work. The Basil Duke Lee series which involves the learning experiences between the ages of eleven and seventeen serves as a point of comparison with other fiction by Fitzgerald. Basil Lee's response to initiation is compared and contrasted with masculine protagonists like Anson Hunter, Anthony Patch, Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway and Dick Diver and with feminine characters like Josephine Perry. A study is made to rate the success of each initiation and to determine the elements which are required for a satisfactory initiation.
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Date Issued
1974
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13687
Subject Headings
Fitzgerald, F Scott--(Francis Scott),--1896-1940, Initiations in literature
Format
Document (PDF)
BIG GAME HUNTING ON MODERNIST TERRITORY: FEMALE ANIMALITY IN F. SCOTT FITZGERALD AND DJUNA BARNES
Title
BIG GAME HUNTING ON MODERNIST TERRITORY: FEMALE ANIMALITY IN F. SCOTT FITZGERALD AND DJUNA BARNES.
Creator
Krieger, Shannon, Hagood, Taylor, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
Among slaughterhouses and suffragists—writers of the American Modernist movement were called to the creative task of reimagining boundaries between human and nonhuman while also extending this conversation onto the site of “New Women.” The threat to “civilized man” by “primal nonhuman animal” becomes tied up with the threat of an independent “wild” woman to a system which traditionally depends upon her domestication. Female animality in modernist texts thus emerges as a symbol of both...
Show moreAmong slaughterhouses and suffragists—writers of the American Modernist movement were called to the creative task of reimagining boundaries between human and nonhuman while also extending this conversation onto the site of “New Women.” The threat to “civilized man” by “primal nonhuman animal” becomes tied up with the threat of an independent “wild” woman to a system which traditionally depends upon her domestication. Female animality in modernist texts thus emerges as a symbol of both masculine anxiety and feminine liberation. When women begin to challenge traditional institutions which would see her survive exclusively by contract to a male “keeper,” men become increasingly desperate to establish an apex social, economic, and political position. As such, female animality in these texts is designed to reinforce or resist standard constructs of human/nonhuman and masculine/feminine, yet both assert the feminine-animal-character as a hybrid commodity bred for patriarchal consumption. Despite the heteronormative compulsion to sketch woman as an elusive animal to be hunted (courtship), caged (marriage), and kept (children)—there is also an advantage in recognizing one’s place in such a “jungle,” as scholars have often described progressive-era America. By examining the intersection of animality and feminist theory within modernist literature, it becomes clear that the category of nonhuman animal is one historically manipulated through patriarchal systems to delegate women’s bodies as a site of oppression and subordination.
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Date Issued
2021
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013789
Subject Headings
Modernism (Literature), Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940--Criticism and interpretation, Barnes, Djuna--Criticism and interpretation
Format
Document (PDF)
Mobile Modernity: Transportation in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway
Title
Mobile Modernity: Transportation in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
Creator
Johnston, Carrie E., Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
A central paradox in modernism is its disdain for mass culture, despite mass culture 's undeniable presence in modernist literature. American authors writing during the early twentieth century tried to establish themselves as "highbrow" by leaving the U.S. and traveling to Europe. In doing so, they created a particular aesthetic characterized by depictions of the transportation that facilitated this travel. These depictions reveal modernism's dependence on mass culture, and more importantly,...
Show moreA central paradox in modernism is its disdain for mass culture, despite mass culture 's undeniable presence in modernist literature. American authors writing during the early twentieth century tried to establish themselves as "highbrow" by leaving the U.S. and traveling to Europe. In doing so, they created a particular aesthetic characterized by depictions of the transportation that facilitated this travel. These depictions reveal modernism's dependence on mass culture, and more importantly, create a space in which modernist authors can negotiate what was once a choice between high or low culture, exile or tourist, and ultimately, modernism or mass culture. Analyzing the car and train scenes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night and Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises reveals the hybrid spaces made available to these authors through transportation.
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000930
Subject Headings
Fitzgerald, F Scott--(Francis Scott),--1896-1940--Tender is the night--Criticism and interpretation, Hemingway, Ernest,--1899-1961--Sun also rises--Criticism and interpretation, Literature and society--United States, Symbolism in literature, Travel in literature, Postmodernism (Literature)
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Document (PDF)