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F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Composite Biography
BuchGebunden
448 Seiten
Englisch
University of Minnesota Presserschienen am02.09.2024
A comprehensive study of the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, related in two-year chapters by twenty-three leading writers on the Jazz Age author   There never was a good biography of a novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in The Crack-Up. There couldn´t be. He is too many people, if he´s any good. Fitzgerald, a good novelist by any measure, has tested this challenge to the biographer´s art. A new star illuminating the literary scene; a chronicler of the Jazz Age in all its brilliance and tarnish; a romantic symbol of the American century; an acute observer of society´s best and worst, and of his own star-crossed career; a midlife burnout at forty-four, leaving an unfinished masterpiece in his wake-he was a man of many aspects, a writer whose complexity and multitudes this composite biography finally aptly portrays.    Bringing together twenty-three leading writers and scholars on Fitzgerald, each focusing on two years of his life, this volume takes its cue from Henry James´s remark, cited by preeminent Fitzgerald biographer Scott Donaldson: The whole of anything is never told; you can only take what groups together. F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Composite Biography presents a new way of grouping together biographical material and perspectives, considering from various angles the author's best-known works as well as understudied writings, including neglected stories and forays into autobiography such as What I Think and Feel at 25 and How to Live on $36,000 a Year. The glamor and fame that made F. Scott and Zelda mythic figures of their time appear here alongside the personal experiences that he occasionally included in his writing: the beginnings as well as the poignant end; the literary relationships that informed and framed his work, set against solitary effort, fame, and failures. This remarkable study of F. Scott Fitzgerald reflects the multifaceted whole of a life in many parts in new and revelatory ways.     Contributors: Jade Broughton Adams; Ronald Berman; William Blazek, Liverpool Hope U; Elisabeth Bouzonviller, Jean Monnet U; Jackson Bryer, U of Maryland; Kirk Curnutt, Troy U; Catherine Delesalle-Nancey, U Jean Moulin Lyon 3; Scott Donaldson; Kayla Forrest; Marie-Agnès Gay, U Jean Moulin Lyon 3; Joel Kabot, U of Maryland, Baltimore; Sara Kosiba; Arne Lunde, U of California, Los Angeles; Bryant Mangum, Virginia Commonwealth U; Martina Mastandrea; Philip McGowan, Queen´s U Belfast; David Page; Walter Raubicheck, Pace U; Ross Tangedal, U of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; Helen Turner, Linnaeus U; James L. W. West III, Pennsylvania State U.mehr

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KlappentextA comprehensive study of the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, related in two-year chapters by twenty-three leading writers on the Jazz Age author   There never was a good biography of a novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in The Crack-Up. There couldn´t be. He is too many people, if he´s any good. Fitzgerald, a good novelist by any measure, has tested this challenge to the biographer´s art. A new star illuminating the literary scene; a chronicler of the Jazz Age in all its brilliance and tarnish; a romantic symbol of the American century; an acute observer of society´s best and worst, and of his own star-crossed career; a midlife burnout at forty-four, leaving an unfinished masterpiece in his wake-he was a man of many aspects, a writer whose complexity and multitudes this composite biography finally aptly portrays.    Bringing together twenty-three leading writers and scholars on Fitzgerald, each focusing on two years of his life, this volume takes its cue from Henry James´s remark, cited by preeminent Fitzgerald biographer Scott Donaldson: The whole of anything is never told; you can only take what groups together. F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Composite Biography presents a new way of grouping together biographical material and perspectives, considering from various angles the author's best-known works as well as understudied writings, including neglected stories and forays into autobiography such as What I Think and Feel at 25 and How to Live on $36,000 a Year. The glamor and fame that made F. Scott and Zelda mythic figures of their time appear here alongside the personal experiences that he occasionally included in his writing: the beginnings as well as the poignant end; the literary relationships that informed and framed his work, set against solitary effort, fame, and failures. This remarkable study of F. Scott Fitzgerald reflects the multifaceted whole of a life in many parts in new and revelatory ways.     Contributors: Jade Broughton Adams; Ronald Berman; William Blazek, Liverpool Hope U; Elisabeth Bouzonviller, Jean Monnet U; Jackson Bryer, U of Maryland; Kirk Curnutt, Troy U; Catherine Delesalle-Nancey, U Jean Moulin Lyon 3; Scott Donaldson; Kayla Forrest; Marie-Agnès Gay, U Jean Moulin Lyon 3; Joel Kabot, U of Maryland, Baltimore; Sara Kosiba; Arne Lunde, U of California, Los Angeles; Bryant Mangum, Virginia Commonwealth U; Martina Mastandrea; Philip McGowan, Queen´s U Belfast; David Page; Walter Raubicheck, Pace U; Ross Tangedal, U of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; Helen Turner, Linnaeus U; James L. W. West III, Pennsylvania State U.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-5179-1585-8
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
FormatGenäht
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum02.09.2024
Seiten448 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 156 mm, Höhe 235 mm, Dicke 19 mm
Gewicht794 g
Artikel-Nr.60340326

Autor

Niklas Salmose is professor of English literature at Linnaeus University and an executive board member of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society. He has translated Fitzgerald's writing into Swedish and is editing a new edition of The Last Tycoon for Oxford Classics.

 

David Rennie, a teacher of English at St. Machar Academy, Aberdeen, Scotland, is author of American Writers and World War I and editor of Scottish Literature and World War I.
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