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 in terms of its evocation of the power of a dream.

Additional coverage of Fitzgerald's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Thomson Gale: American Writers; American Writers: The Classics, Vol. 2; American Writers Retrospective Supplement, Vol. 1; Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Vol. 24; Authors in the News, Vol. 1; Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: Biography & Resources, Vol. 1; Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, 1917-1929; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 123, 110; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 4, 9, 86, 219, 273; Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series, Vols. 1, 15, 16; Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1981, 1996; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: British Edition; DISCovering Authors: Canadian Edition; DISCovering Authors Modules: Most-studied Authors and Novelists; DISCovering Authors 3.0; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. 3; Exploring Novels; Exploring Short Stories; Literature and Its Times, Vol. 3; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; Novels for Students, Vols. 2, 19; Reference Guide to American Literature, Ed. 4; Reference Guide to Short Fiction, Ed. 2; Short Stories for Students, Vols. 4, 15; Short Story Criticism, Vols. 6, 31; Twayne's United States Authors; Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 6, 14, 28, 55; and World Literature Criticism.