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Title: A Distant Drummer

A Distant Drummer

Foreign Perspectives on F. Scott Fitzgerald

by Jamal Assadi (Volume editor) William Freedman (Volume editor)
©2007 Monographs VIII, 152 Pages
English Studies

Summary

A Distant Drummer attends more to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s aesthetic merits, ideas, style, techniques, context of his works and less to biographical details which, critics believe, are intricately interwoven within his works. In striving to respond to Fitzgerald’s artistry away from the impulse of the author’s personal experience, it is – in a very strange paradox – more attuned and, in consequence, closer to Fitzgerald, who wanted his fiction to be objectively judged and free of the stigma which besmirches his reputation.

Details

Pages
VIII, 152
Year
2007
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820488516
Language
English
Keywords
Fitzgerald, F. Scott Aesthetic Quality Criticism Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Literature Modern American Fiction Aufsatzammlung
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2007. VIII, 152 pp.

Biographical notes

Jamal Assadi (Volume editor) William Freedman (Volume editor)

The Editors: Jamal Assadi, Assistant Professor, is Chair of Teacher Administration and of the English Department at the College of Sakhnin for Teacher Education in Israel. He received his Ph.D. in modern American fiction from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in England. In addition to numerous articles in professional journals, he is the author of Acting, Rhetoric, & Interpretation in Selected Novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Saul Bellow (Peter Lang, 2006), Practicum Guide (2006), and children stories. William Freedman is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Haifa and a teacher in the English Department at the College of Sakhnin for Teacher Education in Israel. He has published two books of literary criticism, an oral history of baseball fans, numerous critical and theoretical essays, and poetry in various literary journals and reviews. Most recently, he has published a collection of his poems, Being Them All (2006).

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