
F.Scott Fitzgerald on Authorship
F.Scott Fitzgerald(Author)
University of South Carolina Press
Will be published approx. on 30. September 1996
Book
Hardback
270 pages
978-1-57003-146-5 (ISBN)
Description
F. Scott Fitzgerald on Authorship assembles Fitzgerald's public and private writings on his trade and craft. The 46 selections in this volume construct an autobiographical account of Fiztgerald's 20-year endeavour to maintain careers as a commercial writer and as a literary artist. In a substantial introduction to the volume, Matthew J. Bruccoli positions Fitzgerald as a case history for the profession-of-authorship approach to American literary history as formulated by William Charvat. Bruccoli challenges familiar myths about Fitzgerald's squandering of fortunes and literary genius, and he exposes the error of segregating Fitzgerald's magazine and movie work from his novels. In his own words, Fitzgerald corrects the most condescending and irksome notion about him - that he was a literary ignoramous who wrote brilliantly without knowing what he was doing. As these letters, notebook entries, book reviews and articles indicate, Fitzgerald reached usable conclusions about the craft of writing, the discipline of authorship and the obligations of literature.
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Language
English
Place of publication
South Carolina
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
facsims.,ports.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
489 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57003-146-5 (9781570031465)
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