Literature · Modern & Contemporary Literature
A topic within Modern & Contemporary Literature, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Literature.
2 works
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A self-made man's fortune, built entirely to win back a woman who has already moved on, argues that the American promise of reinvention collapses when it is aimed backward at a past that cannot actually be recovered.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Wai Chee Dimock (YaleCourses)
Reads the three novelists as responses to the same crisis of scale after the First World War, arguing their famously different styles are competing solutions to one representational problem.
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