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 | | Enchanted Places: The Use of Setting in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction (Contributions to the Study of American Literature) by Aiping Zhang ISBN-10: 9780313302381 ISBN-10: 0-313-30238-3 ISBN-13: 9780313302381 ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30238-1 Hardcover 1997-09-30 Greenwood Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Most of Fitzgerald's novels and stories start as a romance of love or a fantasy of extravagant glamour, but as the settings and the interplay between characters and the places they live are carefully examined, an emblem-like quality is discovered in their deceptively simple configuration. The first full-length study of Fitzgerald's unparalleled representation of Jazz Age America, this book analyzes an essential, but relatively uncultivated part of the artistry in Fitzgerald's fiction: his use of domestic and urban settings. Fitzgerald's use of these settings as a rich source of imagery objectifies social trends and individual desires. Each setting is no longer just a locale, or a site for a story's action, but a sophisticated device, an integral part of the story designed to convey a unique vision of life in a profound way. Such parabolic quality, the author argues, gives Fitzgerald's fiction enormous possibilities of temporal span and multiple situations, as well as a microcosmic capacity for containing the complexities of reality. | ||
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Tepid, and overblown rhetoric I must say, I agree with previous reviews. This book was awful. The author's prose is overblown and extremely hard to read. I do NOT recommend this book. | ||
unreadable I looked at Zhang's book for an article that I was writing on Fitzgerald (I am a professor of English). The book is basically unreadable; Zhang doe not write particularly well--nor does he have any noteworthy things to say. Skip. | ||
Cliffs? As deep and penetrating as Cliffs or Monarch Notes. | ||
belaboring the obvious Re:"Enchanted Places" 1. Disappointing, overall 2. Derivative work; belabors the obvious 3. Heavy-handed analysis further weighed down by cumbersome prose | ||