Critical Flashcards
Who says that The Great Gatsby is a classic of twentieth century American fiction?
Arthur Mizener
Who argues that modernist literature rejects 19th century traditions?
Baldick
Who argues that America is a never-never land?
Bradbury
Who argues that America has never been a real finite place to Americans themselves?
Bradbury
Who argues that in The Age Of Innocence, a look can communicate more than any word?
Bridget Bennett
Who argues that Ellen is a ‘snob’ from that world and creates her characters who are good at mocking that, like Ellen?
Bridget Bennett
Who argues that May embodies the world Archer is used to… Ellen embodies difference
Carol Wershoven
Who regards The Great Gatsby as an elegiac romance, or an anti heroic ‘quest romance’ where the hero eventually dies?
Kenneth Bruffee
Childs: [modernism is] fear of the new and delight at…
the disappearance of the old
Who argues that ‘the most respectable women are the most oppressed’?
Mary Wollstonecraft
Zhang: naturalism is a new and harsher realism… a character’s…
fate has been predetermined’
Ammons: May is a ‘lovely human doll whose uselessness
aggrandises her owner’s social standing
Knights: ‘loss of social being is a form of
death
Waid: ‘both a tribute to and a cutting…
analysis of the realm of her childhood’
Who argues that The Great Gatsby is another american love story centres on hostility to women… Daisy is… it’s scapegoat?
Fetterly
