The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Magistrale, Tony, and Mary Jane Dickerson. “The Language of Time in The Great Gatsby.” College Literature 16, 1 (spring 1989): 117-28.
Draws on theories of Mikhail Bakhtin to explain the juxtaposition of past and present in Gatsby.
Tyson, Lois. “The Romance of the Commodity: The Concellatation of Identity in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby” In Psychological Politics of the American Dream: The Commodification of Subjectivity in Twentieth-Century American Literature, pp. 40-62. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1994.
Argues that Gatsby is not a portrayal of an idealized yet corrupted American dream, but rather a false dream corrupted by a culture of commodity.
Weinstein, Arnold. “Fiction as Greatness: The Case of Gatsby.” Novel 19 (fall 1985): 22-38.
Attempts to define the “greatness” of The Great Gatsby...
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