... Fitzgerald and Hemingway narrative and style. In Fitzgerald’s case, these narrative studies testify to the status of The Great Gatsby as a touchstone text in the American literary canon. a. Books and Essay Collections  Gautam Kundu’s Fitzgerald and the Influence of Film: The Language of Cinema...

... on current constructions of modernism and postmodernism. Most tellingly, perhaps, James’s writings suggest the perils and prospects of a future in which technology will continue to multiply global connec- tions. A cluster of essays on the author’s late style (the subject of a special issue...

... of commissioned essays around a topic, its contents capable only inadvertently of answering a pointed question. A few of the publications discussed in this essay remain identifiably old-style; the majority of them incline significantly toward the new. Among the old-style group, and indisputably the best...

... prescriptions for writing “moral fiction” (see AmLS 1977, p. 337) enable a style that puts language firmly in control. Examples are drawn from the works of Tim O’Brien (fore- shadowing), Toni Morrison and Raymond Carver (density versus spare- ness in prose), Elmore Leonard (accessibility), and John Updike...

... of our association, in the 1980s, he communicated by long, e≈cient letters, prepared on a type- writer, querying matters of fact and style in chapter manuscripts: ‘‘p. 107—according to the Columbia Encyclopedia, the World Almanac, and my own recollection, the dates for the Chinese Cultural Revolution...

... in Fitzgerald’s fiction that questions the social and cultural discourses that shape, style, and identify us regardless of our own desires and self- understandings.” He examines hair as a material that mediates self and other as well as commercial and sexual longing, arguing that Bernice’s bob represents...

... of literary history and our practice of criticism. Michael Anesko’s Monopolizing the Master elucidates the self-censorship of those who kept James confined in “the Edwardian closet” while transforming him into an icon of high culture, and Kevin Ohi’s Henry James and the Queerness of Style...

...-vision” of Henrik Ibsen’s “aims and professional achievements, as well as his imputed failures.” Although the novelist admired the playwright’s scenic method and his representation of “the sharp concussion of egos,” James’s style compli­ cates Ibsen’s themes and characterizations. Mrs. Brookenham...

... in-depth account of Robles’s life and a more detailed account of Hemingway’s political develop- ment. While the author’s style is a bit melodramatic in many places, Breaking Point will be necessary reading for students of Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War. Perhaps this will also spark...

... to “rewire the system’s spatial capabilities.” Not that there can be simple “utopias of harmoniously multicultural cohabitation”; instead, writers that Moraru admires construct “a literary GPS” that invites readers to navigate the cosmopolitan style that characterizes increasing numbers of lives...

... postmodern fiction seeks to represent, it Jerome Klinkowitz 353 does so digressively through other representations. Because only other pictures can bring its pictures to life, this style of fiction is more honest than others in professing its cultural...

... of flashback, dissolve, and close-up. In an innovative article that also attempts to account for some of the oddities in Fitzgerald’s style by appealing to his interest in other media, T. Austin Graham (“Fitzgerald’s ‘Riotous Mystery’: This Side of Paradise as Musical Theater,”FSFR 6: 21–53...

... themes, imagery, and style so that ‘‘elements of a racial cultural tradition become expressive of a feminist voice instead of expressing traditional patriarchal Mexican values But there is white feminism to contend with as well, particularly the notion that ‘‘many colored women were working...

... with the author are not so much under the sway of his example as in conversation with him. The conversation continues as Griffin bids a gracious farewell to the journal and welcomes her successor, veteran scholar Greg Zacharias. A familiar topic generating fresh interest is James s late style. Recent studies...

...Sarah B. Daugherty © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 6  Henry James Sarah B. Daugherty A number of critics write of James in prose aspiring to the complex- ity of the author’s own late style, sacrificing clarity for the sake of nuance. Bemused and befuddled readers may welcome...

... Young’s work on Shakespearean tragedy to examine the fusion between style and structure. Marovitz discusses Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth with regard to Moby-Dick and Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and particularly Measure for Measure with regard to Pierre. This comparison ‘‘helps...

... 365 The first half of Frattali’s book focuses on the emergence of Frost’s mature style from the Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic of his early poetry. Find- ing evidence in Frost’s work of his debt to Wordsworth and Keats, and distinguishing it from that of Stevens and Williams, Frattali proposes...

...; class, politics, and ideology; intersections of race and gender; and classroom contexts. Among the thoughtful contributions are Sara S. Hodson’s “Jack London, Celebrity” ( pp. 25–35) and Barry Menikoff’s “Martin Eden: Portrait of the Artist, American Style” ( pp. 52–58), which examine...

... style that she knowingly parodied. Colm Tóibín has edited The New York Stories of Henry James (New York Review, 2006), a collection of eight tales ranging from “The Story of a Masterpiece” (1868) to “The Jolly Corner” (1908). Tóibín’s introduc- tion describes James’s enduring sense...

... for the past half century? Studies published in 2003 treat the work of subsequent decades in detail, but almost always with reference to the self-styled Age of Aquarius. How the new geopolitical realities of the post-2001 world will influence fiction and its criticism remains to be seen. i Overview...