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Description for American Icon
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How and why Fitzgerald's novel, initially called a failure, has come to be considered a masterwork of American literature and part of the fabric of the culture. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is widely seen as the quintessential "great American novel," and the extensive body of criticism on the work bears out its significance in American letters. American Icon traces its reception and its canonical status in American literature, popular culture, and educational experience. It begins by outlining the novel's critical reception from its publication in 1925, to very mixed reviews, through Fitzgerald's death, when it had been virtually forgotten. ... Read more
How and why Fitzgerald's novel, initially called a failure, has come to be considered a masterwork of American literature and part of the fabric of the culture. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is widely seen as the quintessential "great American novel," and the extensive body of criticism on the work bears out its significance in American letters. American Icon traces its reception and its canonical status in American literature, popular culture, and educational experience. It begins by outlining the novel's critical reception from its publication in 1925, to very mixed reviews, through Fitzgerald's death, when it had been virtually forgotten. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
Number of Pages
172
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571133717
SKU
V9781571133717
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About Robert Beuka
Robert Beuka is associate professor of English at Bronx Community College, City College of New York.
Reviews for American Icon
[E]xcellent . . . . Fitzgerald scholars and canny students will be grateful for this book for a long time to come, not just for the way it organizes its diverse materials and makes sense of the various trends in Gatsby criticism, but mainly for its clear analyses of the best and sometimes not very good examples of that criticism, ... Read more