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Viscardi, Roberta Fabbri. "A posição do narrador em The Great Gatsby de F. Scott Fitzgerald." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-14072011-144245/.
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O objetivo desta dissertação é analisar como a contradição presente na narração do romance The Great Gatsby de F. Scott Fitzgerald expõe as tensões sociais e históricas dos Estados Unidos dos anos 1920. Tal contradição, revelada na linguagem e no conteúdo da obra, exige uma leitura atenta do descompasso entre o ponto de vista do narrador memorialista e os valores morais que ele apresenta no início do romance. Exploraremos de que forma o movimento reflexivo da narração de Nick Carraway demonstra a tentativa de construção de entendimento dos fatos por meio da reconstrução das memórias, e como essa reflexão leva o narrador a desvelar a alienação e compreender os meandros da sociedade norte-americana no período pós-Primeira Guerra Mundial.<br>The aim of this dissertation is the analysis of the contradiction present in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and how it exposes the social and historical tensions of the United States of America during the 1920s. Such contradiction, which is revealed in the language and content of the novel, demands a thorough reading of the mismatch between the point of view of the memoirist narrator and the moral values he presents in the beginning of the text. We explore how the reflexive movement of Nick Carraways narration shows his attempt to build understanding of the facts by the reconstruction of his memories, and how this reflection leads the narrator to unveil alienation and understand the intricacies of post-World War I American society.
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Fälth, Sebastian. "Social Class and Status in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för lärarutbildning (LUT), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-24020.
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Uppsatsen syftar till att analysera påverkan av social klass och status i F. Scott Fitzgeralds roman The Great Gatsby med Max Webers teori om klass och status som utgångspunkt. Detta sker genom analys av karaktärernas relationer och beteende ur ett perspektiv där klass och status är centralt. Resultatet visar hur klass och status påverkar karaktärernas beslut, relationer och liv. Det leder till ett oundvikligt slut för Jay Gatsbys och Daisy Buchanans kärleksaffär samtidigt som konsekvenserna av karaktärernas handlingar påverkas av deras klasstillhörighet.
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Fonseca, Jassyara Conrado Lira da [UNESP]. "Imagens da diferença: o espaço em The Great Gatsby." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/91510.
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fonseca_jcl_me_arafcl.pdf: 753228 bytes, checksum: 7536aeb4b77e7a4dcc16b58eb1483f62 (MD5)<br>Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)<br>O romance The Great Gatsby pode ser visto como uma crônica da década de 1920, por contar com diversas marcas desse momento da história norte-americana. Francis Scott Fitzgerald, seu autor, é considerado o porta-voz dessa geração. Uma geração que passava por transformações drásticas na economia e na sociedade, causadas por uma guerra recém-terminada. Para aqueles afetados diretamente pela crise, esse período foi de extrema privação. Para outros, como Jay Gatsby, o protagonista do romance, esse momento histórico possibilitou um acúmulo vertiginoso de riquezas. A composição das personagens e dos cenários que as separam na história é diretamente influenciada por esses efeitos do pós-guerra. Nessa atmosfera, o narrador Nick Carraway, a única personagem que transita por todos os espaços, desenvolve sua história. A proposta deste estudo foi analisar os espaços que o leitor apreende pela narrativa de Nick, divididos em dois grandes grupos: público e privado. Uma vez que a espacialização é fundamental para apreciação da obra, por também refletir as personagens, foram buscadas imagens que apresentassem a estratificação da sociedade e que fossem observáveis na superfície da narrativa ou de maneira mais profunda e simbólica. As análises ressaltaram questões sobre espaço/ambientação, respaldadas em leituras de Bachelard e Osman Lins, bem como guiou-se nos conceitos de carnavalização propostos por Bakhtin para o estudo comparado das personagens Gatsby e Trimalquião<br>The novel The Great Gatsby can be seen as a chronicle of the 1920s, by narrating on various aspects of this moment in American history. And Francis Scott Fitzgerald, its author, is considered the spokesperson of this generation. A generation that was undergoing drastic transformations in the economy and society, caused by a war recently ended. For those affected directly by the crisis this time was of extreme deprivation. For others, like the protagonist of the novel, this historic moment caused a dizzying accumulation of wealth. The composition of characters and the scenarios that separate them respond to these post war effects. In such atmosphere the narrator, Nick Carraway, the only character who transits for all the spaces, develops his story. This study proposal was the analysis of the spaces the reader grasps by the narrative of Nick, spaces divided into two large groups: public and private. Whereas spatialization is fundamental for appraising the piece, once it reflects the characters, this research has sought for images which present the stratification of society, observable on the surface of the narrative or in a deeper symbolic way. The analyses emphasized the aspects about space/ambiance, assured in readings of Bachelard and Osman Lins and it also was guided by carnavalization concepts proposed by Bakhtin for the comparative studies of Gatsby and Trimalchio characters
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Jensen, Sabina. "Rugged Individualism in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-31275.
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The aim of this essay is to analyze the concept of rugged individualism in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. This paper will also examine the American Dream since rugged individualism is related to the American Dream. Marxist criticism problematizes rugged individualism and the American Dream. The title character Jay Gatsby is portrayed as an exemplary rugged individualist. Gatsby shows several traits of rugged individualism and he can be used as a representative for both rugged individualism and the American Dream.
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Haghanipour, Melodi. "The Great Gatsby – novel into movie : A Comparison of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Baz Luhrmann’s Movie Adaptation." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-46260.
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In this essay I will discuss alterations that have been made to the storyline of the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, when the novel is made into the movie with the same name. The focus of the essay is on the different types of devices used, such as lighting and color, and extra diegetic devices, that were used in the movie to make it fit into the modern-day society and to make it aesthetically pleasing to the eye. By comparing the novel and the movie the essay reaches the conclusion that the director Baz Luhrmann has stayed true to the original storyline but has made alterations that helps the movie connect to the modern day society.
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Kuxdorf, Stephanie. "Love in a machine age : gender relationships in the novels and short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59896.
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The primary purpose of this study is to examine the effects of the social and cultural revolution in post-World War One American society on gender relationships in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novels and a selection of his short stories. In his fictional works, Fitzgerald becomes a kind of social and cultural historian, reflecting the fundamental changes that began to occur in the 1920s. There were many factors that contributed to this Jazz-Age revolution in "manners and morals": the emancipation of women, giving rise to the American New Woman; the influence of Freud and his psychoanalytic theories on the already blossoming sexual revolution; and the mechanization and commercialization of all aspects of life in the machine age, drastically altering the way men and women had traditionally thought, behaved, and, communicated with one another.
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Vaca, Vink Sebastian. "Knowledge through Fiction: Characters as Social Metaphors in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-189626.
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While it is common to relate to fictional characters, there is a common view that this is all that fiction can provide us with and that we cannot learn from fiction. There are arguments to support this claim, such as the no-evidence argument and the fiction-distortion argument. They claim that due to the nature of the production of fiction and fictional characters, we cannot learn from them. However, fictional characters can be used as a springboard to teach students about many different topics, such as historical periods, different cultures and attitudes. To do this, one should look at the characters as social metaphors. Characters as social metaphors work as labels to teach us about different social types that we can use to understand our friends and enemies. This effect is called the fiction-to-world relation by Noël Carroll and will be used in this essay to analyze different characters from The Great Gatsby and see what they can teach us about the 1920s in the U.S. The Great Gatsby works as a good base novel for this type of analysis because it was produced in the same era it depicts. Furthermore, this essay will fill a gap in research done relating to The Great Gatsby by using this type of text or character analysis and relating it to how it can be used in Swedish Upper secondary school in an effective way to reach the aims for English 7 set forth by Skolverket. As the text and specifically characters were subjected to the analysis, it became clear that one could see traits and trends that would give students insight into the 1920s. Furthermore, this newly acquired knowledge could be used as a springboard for further research for students to find out more about the attitudes, social class struggles and society in general during the roaring 20s.
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Hamri, Rachid El. "Étude stylistique des quatre romans de Francis Scott Fitzgerald." Paris 10, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA100162.
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Le but de cette thèse est d'étudier le style de Francis Scott Fitzgerald à travers ses quatre principaux romans. La première partie - intitulée "langue" - concerne la rhétorique, c'est-à-dire l'expression d'une "conscience littéraire" qui se dévoile à travers les jeux de l'écriture. De nombreuses oppositions peuvent être établies entre les langages poétique et ironique ; le point de vue interne et externe. Cette analyse sert à décrire une éthique sociale propre à l'Amérique des années vingt et trente, admirablement exprimée dans the Great Gatsby. La seconde partie, consacrée a la "structure", met l'accent sur le rôle et le traitement du temps, comme instrument de structuration du récit. L'analyse de l'intrigue permet une plus grande concentration sur la psychologie des personnages. Le dernier chapitre, consacre à l'organisation de l'œuvre, traite des relations entre l7artiste et son univers fictionnel. Ainsi, de l'étude de la cohérence, se dégage le problème de la création artistique<br>The aim of this research is to present a stylistic study of Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s four novels. The first part attempts to demonstrate - in various ways - how language, point of view and pragmatics illustrate the social and cultural aspects of American life during the nineteen twenties and thirties. The most striking part of this study is the rhetoric function of language, through which the author examines his own consciousness. Thus, the dialectic that oppose s poetics and irony, internal and external point of view, is Fitzgerald’s way of expressing the gap that obtains between reality and fiction. Such themes, based mainly on the confrontation of the nostalgic pas with the dreary present, are beautifully and fully expressed in the Great Gatsby. The second part deals with "structure". Here, the main focus lays on the function and treatment of time, considered as a n instrument to give shape to the narrative. The plot allows the reader to concentrate on the psychology of the characters. The last chapter, coherence, shows the way Fitzgerald creates his world, with his art, expressed both in small and larger units
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Kalpakidis, Charalabos. "Metaphors, Myths, and Archetypes: Equal Paradigmatic Functions in Human Cognition?" Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3284/.
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The overview of contributions to metaphor theory in Chapters 1 and 2, examined in reference to recent scholarship, suggests that the current theory of metaphor derives from long-standing traditions that regard metaphor as a crucial process of cognition. This overview calls to attention the necessity of a closer inspection of previous theories of metaphor. Chapter 3 takes initial steps in synthesizing views of domains of inquiry into cognitive processes of the human mind. It draws from cognitive models developed in linguistics and anthropology, taking into account hypotheses put forth by psychologists like Jung. It sets the stage for an analysis that intends to further understanding of how the East-West dichotomy guides, influences, and expresses cognitive processes. Although linguist George Lakoff denies the existence of a connection between metaphors, myths, and archetypes, Chapter 3 illustrates the possibility of a relationship among these phenomena. By synthesizing theoretical approaches, Chapter 3 initiates the development of a model suitable for the analysis of the East-West dichotomy as exercised in Chapter 4. As purely emergent from bodily experience, however, neither the concept of the East nor the concept of the West can be understood completely. There exist cultural experiences that may, depending on historical and social context, override bodily experience inclined to favor the East over the West because of the respective connotations of place of birth of the sun and place of death of the sun. This kind of overriding cultural meaning is based on the “typical, frequently recurring and widely shared interpretations of some object, abstract entity, or event evoked in people as a result of similar experiences. To call these meanings ‘cultural meanings' is to imply that a different interpretation is evoked in people with different characteristic experiences. As such, various interpretations of the East-West image-schema exist simultaneously in mutually exclusive or competing forms, as the analysis of Gatsby and the reversal of the values of East and West in the context of colonizing and counter-colonizing attitudes suggests.
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Mori, Shinichiro. "The Business of Creating Illusion" : The Great Gatsby and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Art of Fiction." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/148250.
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Faust, Marjorie Ann Hollomon. "The Great Gatsby and its 1925 Contemporaries." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/26.
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ABSTRACT This study focuses on twenty-one particular texts published in 1925 as contemporaries of The Great Gatsby. The manuscript is divided into four categories—The Impressionists, The Experimentalists, The Realists, and The Independents. Among The Impressionists are F. Scott Fitzgerald himself, Willa Cather (The Professor’s House), Sherwood Anderson (Dark Laughter), William Carlos Williams (In the American Grain), Elinor Wylie (The Venetian Glass Nephew), John Dos Passos (Manhattan Transfer), and William Faulkner (New Orleans Sketches). The Experimentalists are Gertrude Stein (The Making of Americans), E. E. Cummings (& aka “Poems 48-96”), Ezra Pound (A Draft of XVI Cantos), T. S. Eliot (“The Hollow Men”), Laura Riding (“Summary for Alastor”), and John Erskine (The Private Life of Helen of Troy). The Realists are Theodore Dreiser (An American Tragedy), Edith Wharton (The Mother’s Recompense), Upton Sinclair (Mammonart), Ellen Glasgow (Barren Ground), Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith), James Boyd (Drums), and Ernest Hemingway (In Our Time). The Independents are Archibald MacLeish (The Pot of Earth) and Robert Penn Warren (“To a Face in a Crowd”). Although these twenty-two texts may in some cases represent literary fragmentations, each in its own way also represents a coherent response to the spirit of the times that is in one way or another cognate to The Great Gatsby. The fact that all these works appeared the same year is special because the authors, if not already famous, would become famous, and their works were or would come to represent classic American literature around the world. The twenty-two authors either knew each other personally or knew each other’s works. Naturally, they were also influenced by writings of international authors and philosophers. The greatest common elements among the poets and fiction writers are their uninhibited interest in sex, an absorbing cynicism about life, and the frequent portrayal of disintegration of the family, a trope for what had happened to the countries and to the “family of nations” that experienced the Great War. In 1925, it would seem, Fitzgerald and many of his writing peers—some even considered his betters—channeled a major spirit of the times, and Fitzgerald did it more successfully than almost anyone.
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Lotun, Martina. "An Illusion of the American Dream : The Great Gatsby from a Feminist Perspective." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Engelska, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-35874.
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald encapsulates the Roaring Twenties, a period of social and political change. The economy is thriving, and the American Dream, with its promise of monetary wealth, happiness and upward mobility, is seemingly within reach. Females gain suffrage, and a New Woman emerges, the flapper, who can be seen challenging stereotypical gender roles with her short skirts and bobbed hair. Ostensibly enjoying increased freedom, she dances the night away at speakeasies, a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other, defying Prohibition. This essay aims to evidence that the American Dream as constructed in the novel is a dream available only to the male gender, as the women remain shackled by a patriarchal society. By looking at The Great Gatsby through a feminist lens and with the help of well-established concepts within feminist critical theory and feminist narratology, this essay analyzes how the female characters are portrayed, along with their language, and their actions. The result reveals that in Gatsby’s world women orbit around the men, maneuvering for their attention, affection, and material wealth. Any transgressions of stereotypical gender roles result in punishment: loss of status, withheld affections, dismissal, or death. Consequently, instead of following their own American Dream, women are limited to pursuing the man who most successfully embodies it. Thus, for the females in The Great Gatsby, the American Dream stays an elusive idea as they remain reliant on the men to manifest it.
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Degeyter, Heather Elizabeth. "Beyond Woman, Mystery, and Myth| A Study of Daisy Fay Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10002398.
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<p> Over the last one hundred years, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s <i> The Great Gatsby</i> has become one of the most popular American novels in the literary canon. Though thousands of critical articles have circulated concerning one of American’s greatest tragic heroes, Jay Gatsby, it is the object of his desire that is often neglected. By applying the theories of feminist thinker Simone de Beauvoir, it can be shown that Daisy’s status as mutable anti-heroine is representative of the patriarchal ideologies of the novel’s time. Equally ripe for analysis is Daisy’s film legacy, as four major motion pictures have been adapted for the big screen. In this project, I argue that Daisy represents the treacherous dichotomies often imposed on women, whether through idolatry, illusion, commodification, or slavery. I also seek to prove that Daisy is part and parcel of the American New Woman and how this further distorts America’s identification with her. The ability to identify with characters is compulsory, which is perhaps why the story of Jay Gatsby has been adopted as a telling of the American Dream. As a contrast, however, the women in <i>The Great Gatsby</i> are difficult to identify with. If Daisy Buchanan is confined to a strict set of misshapen stereotypes, and we as Americans celebrate this novel as one of our Greats, how do we time and time again read women in the Great American Narrative?</p>
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Luong, Merry B. "A Woman's Touch in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night: Pulling the Women Out of the Background." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/74.
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This is a critical study of F. Scott Fitzgerald‟s Tender Is the Night focusing primarily on the lack of examination and criticism surrounding the women characters. Included are reviews of Fitzgerald‟s personal and professional life from the publication of his critically acclaimed The Great Gatsby until the publication of his last complete novel, Tender Is the Night, discussion of the contemporary and current criticism of the novel, and a feminist reading of the novel in order to focus more significant critical attention upon the women characters in order to create a fuller understanding of Fitzgerald‟s novel.
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Guay-Weston, Jennifer Ann. "An American Eve : the construction of a modern revisionist heroine in Kate Chopin's "The awakening", Ernest Hemingway's "The sun also rises" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The great Gatsby"." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/25518.
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Cette recherche a pour but d’identifier une personnalité féminine révisionniste dans le modernisme littéraire américain. Cette personnalité révisionniste a pour nom «American Eve» et défie le «American Adam» qui est un personnage mythique patriarcal de R.W.B. Lewis provenant du dix-neuvième siècle. Cette conceptualisation est accomplie à l’aide d’une analyse socio-critique et comparative des trois protagonistes féminins dans les romans modernes The Awakening (1899) de Kate Chopin, The Sun Also Rises (1926) d’Ernest Hemingway, et The Great Gatsby (1925) de F. Scott Fitzgerald. Ma construction de cette personnalité féminine est divisée en trois chapitres, chacun étant dédié à un protagoniste en particulier. En comparant ces personnages littéraires sur un plan socio-critique et féministe, je permets à mon étude d’établir en quoi les personnages en question contribuent ou ne contribuent pas à la personnalité de «American Eve». Cette approche comparative est un excellent moyen d’évaluer l’évolution du potentiel révisionniste de la femme au vingtième siècle et les différentes façons par lesquelles elle emploie ce pouvoir.
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Älfvåg, Hugo. "The Dream : A Psychoanalytic Reading of the Conceptualization of the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-31427.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s critically acclaimed classic The Great Gatsby, written in 1925, poetically captures the zeitgeist of the roaring twenties, and has attracted considerable attention regarding the depiction of the American dream. Early critics argued that it offered a rendition of the quintessential American dream, claiming that the novel stays true to the dream’s original values. However, this analysis makes an effort to reveal the false materialistic values that corrupt and taint the vision of the original American dream projected in the narrative. More specifically, the analysis attempts to demonstrate that the core values of the American dream are gradually distorted and corrupted throughout the novel. Moreover, the novel is approached through the use of certain psychoanalytic concepts which are concerned with mental processes and constructions of personality. By applying these psychoanalytic concepts to Jay Gatsby, the analysis investigates the gradual perversion of the dream through a number of passages and pivotal moments throughout the novel as to showcase the reasons why the dream is perverted. The analysis concludes that the investigated events in fact demonstrate a gradual perversion of the American dream. Furthermore, the essay showcases a clear causal connection between the disrupted balance in the mental processes within Gatsby and the investigated events. The stressful events that Gatsby experiences prompt certain cognitive responses within Gatsby, causing him to pervert the American dream and its core values.
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Skogberg, Lundin Anja. "A Journey Greater Than You Think, Unknown in Its Details, But More Loving Than Nostalgia : -An Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-31134.
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Abstract This essay is an analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and it explores how identity and ideology always exist in a context of time. The American 1920s society was influenced by theories brought by Marxism, Albert Einstein and Freud. This era was highly influenced by cultural influencers, individuals such as Fitzgerald who became one of the greatest to mould and describe the era he lived in. When reviewing Fitzgerald’s text almost a century later, and at the verge of entering the 2020s, it becomes clear that some fundamental features of culture remain ever-present in the American culture. The multifaceted perspective presented to readers by Fitzgerald raises important questions regarding where the real is overruled and transformed by the ideal. The American 1920s was an era of contradictions which also is reflected in Fitzgerald’s ironic tone and in Gatsby’s smile. Fitzgerald offers an understanding which reaches as far as anyone would want to understand. Linchpins in this essay are the interaction between identity, ideology and social codes and the morality which drives actions and reactions and forms a link between the coexistence of contradictions. Social structures are part of history and the impact history possesses over culture, via nostalgia, is relevant for ideas today. Which clues do history and Fitzgerald’s text provide and store for us and can old ideas enlighten us to bring new solutions, or clarity, to apprehend anything about the future? There is a correspondence, a red thread, between eras such as the 1920s and the year of 2019 in the American society today, which explains why the ideas and ideals Fitzgerald portrayed as important parts of identity and culture a hundred years ago, also matter today.
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Danielsson, Bill. "We Need to Talk About Nick : Sexual Divergence, Characterization and the Hardcover Closet in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-47811.
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Criticism of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby (1925) is often focused around its already evident focal points, such as its critique of capitalism, excess and greed. Therefore, this essay focuses on and discusses instances in The Great Gatsby of sexual divergence and homoeroticism. It is written with the purpose of giving the novel an alternative reading and perspective, coupled with expressing the need to look beyond a surface-level analysis of the novel. This is primarily accomplished by analyzing and highlighting the novel's narrator and central character, Nick Carraway. While this kind of reading is not as common as other readings of The Great Gatsby, it is however not original. By using other queer readings and criticisms I have found that Nick Carraway’s repressed and hidden sexual ambiguity is exposed in, as well as informed by, his homosocial interactions, his move to New York and his relationships throughout the novel, especially his relationship to Jay Gatsby. What this essay does, that many other queer readings neglect, is expressing the need to not label the characters with binary forms of sexuality, even though such forms are implied. This essay also highlights how Fitzgerald’s language sometimes suggests sexual divergence and discusses the importance of exploring these instances.
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Wojnar, Magdalena. "“The bottle of whiskey – a second one – was now in constant demand by all present” : Alcohol Consumption as Cultural Capital and Part of Habitus in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-101165.
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This essay investigates the status of alcohol consumption in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby (1925). The analysis focuses on character study reading of Jay Gatsby, and Tom and Daisy Buchanan in conjunction with Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of habitus, by placing habitus in the specific historical context of the novel. The analysis focuses on the social structures of the alcohol-consuming upper-class Americans, and the reproduction of internalized practices during Prohibition. Drinking alcohol is seen as a valued, cultural capital among the elite society and used as a tool in a competition of power. The Buchanans, as true members of their class, are constantly intoxicated. For Gatsby, a sober man and an imposter of the elite society, drinking has no cultural value. I argue that, from the cultural aspect, Gatsby’s fall is a consequence of his soberness among the drunkenness of the hierarchy.
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Pinzone, Anthony F. "“Beyond the Gilded Cage:” Staged Performances and the Reconstruction of Gender Identity in Mrs. Dalloway and The Great Gatsby." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1559659966276508.
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Bardy, Gilles. "De la subtile folie du désespoir : étude des conditions psychologiques de production du texte." Paris 7, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA070098.
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Dans la première partie, théorique, c'est le processus de la découverte chez Freud qui est étudie: découverte, résistance, travail analytique, découverte, et ainsi de suite. Les trois autres parties (sur The Great Gatsby de Fitzgerald, The purloined letter de Poe et As I lay dying de Faulkner), au moyen de l'analyse des signifiants, j'essaie de découvrir le fantasme central, le désir. On peut voir que, dans ces écrits, le fantasme de symbiose est dissimule par le fantasme oedipien<br>In the first, and theoretical part, the processes of the freudian discovery are carefully analysed: discovery, resistance, analytical work, discovery, and so on. In the three other parts (about The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, The purloined letter by Poe and As I lay dying by Faulkner), by means of the analysis of the most important words and situations, i try to find out the main fantasy, the desire. We can see that the fantasy of symbiosis is hidden by the oedipian fantasy
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Long, Kim Martin. "The American Eve: Gender, Tragedy, and the American Dream." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277633/.
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America has adopted as its own the Eden myth, which has provided the mythology of the American dream. This New Garden of America, consequently, has been a masculine garden because of its dependence on the myth of the Fall. Implied in the American dream is the idea of a garden without Eve, or at least without Eve's sin, traditionally associated with sexuality. Our canonical literature has reflected these attitudes of devaluing feminine power or making it a negative force: The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, and The Sound and the Fury. To recreate the Garden myth, Americans have had to reimagine Eve as the idealized virgin, earth mother and life-giver, or as Adam's loyal helpmeet, the silent figurehead. But Eve resists her new roles: Hester Prynne embellishes her scarlet letter and does not leave Boston; the feminine forces in Moby-Dick defeat the monomaniacal masculinity of Ahab; Miss Watson, the Widow Douglas, and Aunt Sally's threat of civilization chase Huck off to the territory despite the beckoning of the feminine river; Daisy retreats unscathed into her "white palace" after Gatsby's death; and Caddy tours Europe on the arm of a Nazi officer long after Quentin's suicide, Benjy's betrayal, and Jason's condemnation. Each of these male writers--Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner--deals with the American dream differently; however, in each case the dream fails because Eve will not go away, refusing to be the Other, the scapegoat, or the muse to man's dreams. These works all deal in some way with the notion of the masculine American dream of perfection in the Garden at the expense of a fully realized feminine presence. This failure of the American dream accounts for the decidedly tragic tone of these culturally significant American novels.
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Godwin, Scott Douglas. "Gender issues, core curriculum, and statewide content standards." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2100.
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Bremmer, Jessica. "Jazz Babies, a Femme Fatale, and a Joad: Women and the Automobile in the American Modernist Era." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04162006-150750/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006.<br>Title from title screen. Audrey Goodman, committee chair; Thomas McHaney, Chris Kocela, committee members. Electronic text (84 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed June 19, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-84).
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Teixeira, Pedro Ferreira. "As relações de poder e sexualidade no romance O grande Gatsby, de Francis Scott Fitzgerald." Universidade Federal do Amazonas, 2016. http://tede.ufam.edu.br/handle/tede/5253.
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Previous issue date: 2016-05-06<br>FAPEAM - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas<br>The present master’s degree dissertation carries out a literary historical analysis of the novel The Great Gatsby by the North-American writer Francis Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925. Firstly, we analyze the sociocultural context of the time prior to the writing of the novel with its economical, religious, moral and social aspects which made up the foundations of the evolution of the culture and development of the United States as a nation. We then analyze the relations of power and sexuality among the characters of the novel based on the concepts of theoreticians Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu. We also address the social issues expressed by the authors of the time and the economical and technological changes of the beginning of the twentieth century, as well as the considerations of philosopher Herbert Marcuse on man ex machina and the causes and consequences of Prohibition Laws and their unfoldings. We then analyze the elements of the novel construction in its literary components: narrator, character, symbology and historical sociocultural aspects: the American dream, the concept of the self-made man and social mobility.<br>A presente dissertação de mestrado realiza uma análise histórico-literária do romance O Grande Gatsby, de autoria do escritor norte-americano Francis Scott Fitzgerald, publicado em 1925. Inicialmente analisamos o contexto sociocultural do período anterior à feitura da obra, com seus aspectos sociais, morais, religiosos e econômicos que formaram o embasamento da evolução da cultura e do desenvolvimento dos Estados Unidos como nação. Em seguida analisamos as relações de poder e sexualidade entre os personagens do romance, utilizando os conceitos dos teóricos Michel Foucault e Pierre Bourdieu. Abordamos a temática social expressa por autores da época e as transformações econômicas e tecnológicas do início do século XX, juntamente com as considerações do filósofo Herbert Marcuse sobre o homem ex machina e as causas e conseqüências da Lei Seca e seus desdobramentos. Em seguida analisamos os elementos da construção do romance nos seus aspectos literários: narrador, personagem, simbologia e sociocultural-histórico: o sonho americano, o conceito de self-made man e a mobilidade social.
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Leck, Robin Whitney. "Gatsby's Gorgeous Car: Objects and the Outsider in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction." Thesis, Boston College, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/443.
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Thesis advisor: Christopher P. Wilson<br>Growing up F. Scott Fitzgerald longed to be a part of the leisure class with whom he socialized and was educated. However, born into a middle class family and destined to be a writer, he never achieved that goal. This preoccupation with the leisure class continued into adulthood and was reflected in his works of fiction. In his writing he repeatedly depicts the outsider, a middle class character who by the means of monetary wealth hopes to rise in society. Through his relationship with the object, this outsider attempts to become a part of the elite and is rejected. Mannerisms and social codes that can only be learned by high birth restrict this individual from reaching social heights. The new wealth of the 1920's creates a paradox for the outsider. The object that the leisure class possesses is easily attainable, however, the upward movement it promises is still out of reach<br>Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2004<br>Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences<br>Discipline: English<br>Discipline: College Honors Program
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Viscardi, Roberta Fabbri. "Narração e processo social em O Grande Gatsby e Suave É a Noite de F. Scott Fitzgerald." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-29112018-111907/.
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A obra literária de F. Scott Fitzgerald pode ser entendida como um enfrentamento do paradoxo da narração apontado por Theodor Adorno, decorrente da desintegração do sentido da experiência e da consequente impossibilidade de sua articulação objetiva por parte de quem a experiencia. A figuração que Fitzgerald faz da sociedade norte-americana da década de 1920 é formalizada em O Grande Gatsby (1925) e Suave É a Noite (1934) por meio da incorporação da tradição literária que antecede sua obra, bem como de técnicas do cinema mudo e sonoro e do modernismo europeu. Com isso, Fitzgerald visa evidenciar, em ambos os romances, a falsidade da ideologia do sonho americano. Uma vez que O Grande Gatsby e Suave É a Noite foram publicados antes e depois da crise econômica de 1929, respectivamente, o autor figura sob dois pontos de vista distintos a década de 1920, a fim de mostrar que tal crise revela que o empreendimento individual não é o meio para alcançar o sonho americano, mas apenas uma engrenagem no funcionamento contraditório do capitalismo.<br>F. Scott Fitzgeralds novels may be read as a confrontation of the paradox that defines the position of the narrator, as theorized by Theodor Adorno, resulted from the disintegration of the sense of experience and the consequent impossibility of its objective articulation on the part of those who experience it. Fitzgeralds figuration of the American society of the 1920s is formalized in The Great Gatsby (1925) and in Tender Is the Night (1934) via the incorporation of the literary tradition that precedes his work, as well as silent and sound film and modernist techniques. Thereby, Fitzgerald aims to expose in both of these novels the falseness of the ideology of the American dream. Since The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night were published before and after the economic crisis of 1929 respectively, Fitzgerald represents the 1920s from two distinct points of view in order to highlight the fact that such crisis reveals that the individual enterprise is not the means to achieve the American dream but only a part in the contradictory operation of the machinery of capitalism
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Smith, Thomas P. "Multiple voices and the single individual : Kierkegaard's concept of irony as a tool for reading The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, Mrs. Dalloway, and Ulysses." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001861.
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Storm, Laura Ann Fisher Douglas. "The great Gatsby : from novel into opera." Diss., 2004. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11152004-195710/.
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Treatise (D.M.A.) -- Florida State University, 2004.<br>Advisor: Douglas Fisher, Florida State University, School of Music. Title and description from treatise home page (viewed 2-10-05). Document formatted into pages; contains 100 pages. Includes biographical sketch. Includes bibliographical references.
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Chang, Hsiao-Ling, and 張筱玲. "Racial and Sexual Others in F. Scott Fitzgerald''s The Great Gatsby." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78337530706778335211.
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碩士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>外國語文學研究所<br>93<br>This thesis aims at debunking the subversive power of the racial and sexual Others in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby while at the same time recognizes Fitzgerald’s consciousness of the race, gender, and class issues in the twenties instead of submission to the contemporary white ideology. Although The Great Gatsby has been regarded as a masterpiece in its delineation of the disillusionment of the American Dream, the issues on race and women are often trivialized or even ignored in its studies. However, as the spokesman of the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald probes into the race and women issues, intermingled with class distinction, in the depiction of the marginalized characters. Through a socio-cultural study, it is hoped that this study will offer a reading that recognizes Fitzgerald’s contribution to the portrayal of the rebelliousness of the Other in the 1920s instead of his ignorance of it.
The first chapter focuses on the formation of the concept of “whiteness” in the twenties and the delineations of races in the novel. Through the blacks’ and the Jews’ rise in economic status and Gatsby’s fall despite of his financial success, Fitzgerald unveils the tension between whites and “nonwhites” as well as the stigmatization of the racial Other. The second chapter will investigate into the rebellious female characters in the novel despite men’s attempt to regulate their desire into commodities in a capitalist society. As Luce Irigaray argues, women are “disciplined” into the roles of “mother, virgin, and prostitute” in a patriarchal society. However, the wives’ and career women’s refusal to stay in the fixed positions in the novel demonstrate the subversive power of women that recognize and resist the oppression from men. Through the rebelliousness of marginalized characters, Fitzgerald presents the power struggle between white male and the racial/sexual Other.
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Hung, Chi-feng, and 洪綺鳳. "Jay Gatsby's American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16654950708640666547.
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碩士<br>國立中正大學<br>外國語文研究所<br>89<br>Abstract
In this thesis, I wish to analyze Gatsby's American dream in the material and the spiritual sides that have become inextricably confused. Generally, people take the American dream as the richer and better material life. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald explicates the American dream of the past, but not the present of material success. Moreover, Gatsby's American dream is an extension of the traditional American dream. Therefore, I attempt to explicate the contradictory values in Gatsby's dream, Gatsby's innocence, and Gatsby's death which are regarded as three crucial elements to express in Gatsby's American dream.
This thesis contains five chapters: Introduction, Gatsby's Dream, Gatsby's Innocence, Gatsby's Death, and Conclusion. In the introductory chapter, I show the dramatic background of Francis Scott Fitzgerald as if he has been through his American dream, and three elements of Gatsby's American dream. In chapter 2, Gatsby's dream is about Gatsby's self-fulfillment to break through the limitations of his background, his low social class, and then he obtains the freedom and power in wealth, status and romance as achieving his American dream. In chapter 3, Gatsby's innocence is about his single-minded attempt to make his American dream true in his belief of the past, his faith as a gentle knight for Daisy, and his self-delusion. In chapter 4, Gatsby's death is not only regarded as the natural movement of life that is retreat, but also as the withering of the American dream. In the conclusive chapter, I finally find out that unlike the traditional American dream, Gatsby's American dream is not only related to the material part, but also the spiritual part.
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Huang, Lien-tzu, and 黃蓮姿. "SYMBOLISM IN F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S THE GREAT GATSBY." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63761076653515721144.
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碩士<br>國立高雄師範大學<br>英語學系<br>91<br>Since its first appearance in 1925, The Great Gatsby has won countless critical acclaim and been praised as one of the greatest American novels in the twentieth century. In this literary masterpiece, Fitzgerald expresses his profound reflection on the American society in the 1920s and on his view of life through the intricate use of symbolism. Therefore, the analysis of the central symbols in this masterpiece helps to shed light on Fitzgerald’s innermost thoughts and feelings for his times and the society and to illuminate the universal appeal inherent in this novel.
This thesis consists of five chapters. In the first chapter, the close affinity between symbolism and the understanding of literary writing is presented. A plenitude of examples from renowned literary theorists and writers will be cited to illustrate the significance of symbolism in the literary works of art.
The second chapter focuses on the symbolic meanings of individual settings which represent different social spheres. In Fitzgerald’s depiction, in the 1920s, the American upper class, the newly rich and the middle-lower class are obsessed with the misconception that money can bring them success and happiness. However, as the novel proceeds, we can see that Fitzgerald actually launches his severest criticism on the moral degeneration and decadence caused by the fervent pursuit of wealth.
In the third chapter, water symbolism is examined. At the outset, water is associated with life and hope; nevertheless, in the second half of the novel, water symbolizes disaster and death. Besides, water symbolism is also used to represent Jay Gatsby’s crucial events of his life. Through an examination of water symbolism, Gatsby’s rise and fall is forcefully and vividly presented.
The fourth chapter is concerned with characters as symbols. Gatsby’s romantic imagination derives from the early idealistic values of the American dream. The single-mindedness to make dreams actual and the never-ceasing faith in the promise of life make Gatsby one of the most memorable characters in American literature. Carraway, narrator of the story, is the moral center of this novel. With gradual penetration into the selfishness and moral carelessness of the Buchanans and into the purity and intensity of Gatsby’s dream , Carraway realizes that Gatsby is far superior to the rotten and corrupted Buchanans. His decision to return to the Midwest signals his appreciation of traditional values and symbolizes his maturity in life experience and morality.
The fifth chapter is a conclusion. Through the study of symbols of settings, water and characters, we can not only better understand the ideas Fitzgerald tries to communicate but further appreciate the essence of The Great Gatsby.
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Hsiao-Ling, Chang. "Racial and Sexual Others in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby." 2005. http://www.cetd.com.tw/ec/thesisdetail.aspx?etdun=U0001-2506200516234100.
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Persson, Hanna. "A Study of Daisy Buchanan’s influence on Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby." Thesis, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-71662.
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Tsai, Li Ting, and 蔡麗婷. "A Dialogic and Polyphonic Study on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby." Thesis, 1994. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57771539311021789991.
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Chien, Hsin-ho Chang, and 張簡新禾. "Class, Forms of Capital, and Celebrity Culture in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/88668982360951570471.
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碩士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>外國語文學研究所<br>104<br>This thesis aims to examine social mobility and the impacts of celebrity culture on social class in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby through Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of forms of capital. The French Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu illustrates in his theory how individual social position is determined by several forms of capital instead of by economic capital alone, and he offers a systematic theory to illustrate how classes are constructed and reproduced in a subtle process.
Bourdieu’s discussion of different forms of capital enables a study of why Gatsby fails in his attempt to be a member of the upper class. Since what Gatsby lacks is not economic capital, I intend to argue that Gatsby’s insufficient cultural capital, symbolic capital, and social capital are the central causes for the upper class to deny his access to the class and to reject a permanent relationship with him. Bourdieu’s theory offers a lens to examine impacts of forms of capital on other characters’ judgments of Gatsby.
Besides studying how the forms of capital Gatsby owns or lacks define him and his relationship with other characters, I will also explore if the formation of celebrity culture has any effects on Gatsby’s understanding of the class structure and further on the ideal self that he pictures. This thesis will investigate the relationship between the social structure in the twenties in the United States and the accomplishment Gatsby aims to achieve in order to figure out the key cause to his tragedy. Also, I attempt to suggest that the 1920s America is a significant historical background in which Gatsby’s failure is almost inevitable.
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Chu, Hyung-Hwa 1972. "Adult ESL learners reading and discussing The great Gatsby: literary response to and perception of reading and discussing a narrative novel written in English." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/3830.
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The purpose of this study was to examine how adult students in a reading class offered in a college-affiliated ESL program responded to The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald, 1925; GG, afterwards) in small group book discussion sessions over eight weeks, and how they perceived their reading and discussing experiences. Analysis of students' literary responses demonstrated students' strategies in constructing textual meaning and transformation of their meaning-making strategies across time. Students in this study made sense of the text by making connections between the textual world and the text, themselves, and the world around them. Students also brought into discussion their reading experiences and a critical approach to the text. The percentage of comments devoted to each response category illustrated the changes in the focus of discussion and meaning making strategies across time. Taking up the novel, initially students spent more time discussing the historical context of the text and formulating connections with themselves and the world. Students were self-conscious about their reading difficulties. Further along in their reading, as they derived more information from the text, their discussion became more text-centered. Inferential comments and emotional reactions became more frequent elements in discussion, and talk about the reading experience itself and contextual information about the text diminished. Perceptions expressed about their reading experience of the literary text in their second language were predominantly about the enjoyment of reading and challenges and rewards in terms of: 1) language challenges, 2) culture challenges, and 3) literary challenges. Analysis of students' perceptions of their experiences in literary discussion as they read GG revealed their enjoyment of discussions and appreciation of how literary discussion had enriched their interpretation of the novel by providing opportunities for: 1) checking up on the textual information, 2) exchanging opinions, and 3) building a sense of learning community.<br>text
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Su, Joey, and 蘇奕丞. "The Different Colorings of Whiteness: The Intra-Structural Difference and Hegemony of White Identity in F. Scott Fitzgerald''s The Great Gatsby." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30393847010508083229.
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碩士<br>國立中興大學<br>外國語文學系所<br>98<br>As an inquiry into the intra-structural difference and hegemony of white identity in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, it is the objective of this thesis not to vilify whiteness, but to reify it—to hack it out of its unquestioned and unquestionable status of transcendence so as to scrutinize how white identity is constructed, to trace the workings of white power through the span of U.S. history, to analyze how the regime of whiteness is represented, contested, but reconsolidated within the novel, and to examine how the novel’s representations of whiteness correlate with the author’s literary imagination. The Great Gatsby is a suitable text for such an inquiry because all but the four black characters who only appear briefly in the novel are white. There are the leisure-class, “old money,” Anglo-American characters, Tom, Daisy, and Jordan; there is the well-to-do, middle-class character, Nick; there are the new European immigrants, Michaelis, Wolfshiem, Stella, and the Finnish woman; there are the working-class characters, George and Myrtle; and there is Gatsby, a representative of the newly rich. Although all of these characters can be considered white, especially when collectively viewed against the black characters in the novel, they are by no means equal in terms of power, privilege, or even whiteness. It will be argued that whiteness is neither a biologically determined trait of racial identity, nor purely an illusory fabrication that has no bearing on the material processes of history, but a function that acts both as a criterion according to which power is organized and distributed in the United States and as a sociopolitical signifier of that power. The plurality of variegated white identities in The Great Gatsby, as signifiers of varying measures of power, are each overdetermined by such parameters as the given character’s ethnicity, political conviction, religion, gender, class, and economic interest.
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Kříž, Jonáš. "Pojetí Amerického snu ve Velkém Gatsbym Francise Scotta Fitzgeralda a v Americkém snu od Normana Mailera." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-326647.
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The thesis provides a comparative analysis of the American Dream's concept in the two essential pieces of American literature: Francis Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Norman Mailer's An American Dream. The theoretical part of the text focuses on the general definition of the American Dream and its development throughout the history of the United States. It aims at exposing the close relationship of the idea of the American Dream and the American national consciousness in terms of self-reliance, individualism and freedom. The analytical part concentrates on isolating the individual literary motifs of each novel that can be regarded as related to the notion of the American Dream. It discusses the central characters as well as dramatic aspects of The Great Gatsby and An American Dream in order to prove the American Dream to represent an essential theme in their literary frameworks. As a conclusion the thesis presents the opinion that each author elaborates this theme differently. Both novels, however, expose the individual version of the American Dream as being defeated in a struggle against the collective nature of the 20th century American society restricting the efforts of an individual for his or her self-realization. Keywords: Norman Mailer, An American Dream, Francis Scott Fitzgerald,...
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Hřebcová, Zuzana. "České překlady Fitzgeraldova Velkého Gatsbyho (L. Dorůžka 1960/2011; Alexandr Tomský a Rudolf Červenka 2011; Martin Pokorný 2013)." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-342943.
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The thesis focuses on modern translations of the classic American novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald within the Czech cultural setting. Initially, in accordance with Gideon Toury's (2012) descriptive model, two Czech translations will be compared in light of their functionality within the target literary canon, their dominating stylistic features will be determined and they will be assessed in terms of their acceptability or adequacy. Subsequently selected excerpts will be compared with the source text to reveal how each of the translations treats Fitzgerald's text, and in relation to these findings their shifts between acceptability and adequacy will be specified. The central goal of the thesis is to evaluate the transfer of Fitzgerald's very specific writing style, with special focus on its poetic character, lyricism and imagery. Therefore individual translation strategies will be identified and the invariant core of both of the translations will be determined. For an even more detailed explanation of the translation strategies the thesis employs the preceding translation by Lubomír Dorůžka (1960) which helps clarify the relationship between the studied translations. In conclusion all of the findings are summarized and characteristics of each of the Czech versions of Fitzgerald's The...
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Hsieh, Shaw-luen, and 謝紹倫. "Narrating Desire, Desiring Narrative in Fitzgerald''s The Great Gatsby." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/229355.
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碩士<br>國立臺北科技大學<br>應用英文系碩士班<br>101<br>Researches on The Great Gatsby include topics like American dream, ethnicity, women’s position and
narrator’s credibility. The narrator’s credibility has raised polarized viewpoints among critics. R. W. Stallman claims that Nick is a “hypocrite” while Frederick J. Hoffman believes that Nick’s narration is not problematic. In storytelling, the narrator’s intention to tell a story contains the desire to repeat, so that what happened in the past can be brought to the present. In addition, Peter Brooks asserts that desire is the theme and motor of the narrative. Prompted by these discussions, this paper aims to explore the nature of storytelling, in which I scrutinize desire, the politics of narrative, repetition and their interrelationship.
The title of the novel, The Great Gatsby, shows that this is a text about a man named Gatsby. I maintain that the text is Nick’s autobiographical account of himself and biographical account of Gatsby. Nick is the first-person narrator as well as a character involved in the plot. His purpose of writing The Great Gatsby is to articulate his desire to narrate and to repeat the past. By writing an autobiographical and biographical account of himself and Gatsby, he retrieves the memorable past.
This research is consisted of five chapters. Chapter One, “Introduction,” introduces the motivation and the background. Chapter Two, “Desire for Narrative and Identity,” examines the nature of desire through psychoanalytic perspective and explores Gatsby’s confessional and self-fashioning desires. Chapter Three, “The Great Gatsby as an ‘Autobiographical Project,’” inspects the narrator’s voice, claiming that The Great Gatsby can be understood as what Paul de Man calls an “autobiographical project.” Chapter Four, “Trauma, Repetition and Eternal Return,” scrutinizes the concept of repetition through Nietzsche and Deleuze, arguing the repetition is the repetition of difference, not of the same. The Conclusion concludes that both Gatsby and Nick desire to repeat the past but their belief in the repetition is different.
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CHEN, YO-KAI, and 陳祐凱. "A COMPUTER-ASSISTED STUDY OF F. SCOTT FITZGERAGLD'S "THE GREAT GATSBY' IN TERMS OF ROLAND BARTHES' READING SYSTEM." Thesis, 1997. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59850555705766925109.
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