Francis Scott Fitzgerald : His Art and Vision

Download or read book Francis Scott Fitzgerald : His Art and Vision written by Ratan Bhattacharjee and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s contribution to American fiction has to be judged keeping in mind that the naturalistic mimesis of the fiction of the earlier period is important as a critique of bourgeois society, but it ultimately fails in representing the problematic nature of bourgeois reality. The use of romance by Fitzgerald within mimetic realism is a logical culmination of the rise of the novel as it is. Through this use of romance he is able to adequately explore the bourgeois myth of man