J. G. Robin — The Incredible Rise and Fall of the Ukrainian Gatsby (2024)

Max von Gerlach and Meyer Wolfshiem: Fake People, Real Lives. The People Behind F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

Becoming Gatsby: How the High Priest of the Jazz Age Wrote the Gospel of the American Dream, 2023

Fully updated with fresh finds. After sharing a number of exciting new finds with Gatsby investigator, Horst Kruse, I decided to take a closer look at the life of Long Island mystery-man, Max Stork Gerlach. This article explores the ambiguous relationship between Gerlach, his wartime friend and sponsor, Major Cushman A Rice and the Broadway Mobster, Arnold Rothstein, generally regarded as the inspiration for Fitzgerald's Meyer Wolfshiem, Gatsby's mentor. Also features a brand new look at Gerlach‘s possible links to Scott Fizgerald’s brother-in-law Major Newman Smith, who would become decorated ‘Master of Deception’ during the war against Nazi Germany. A Blanchard House podcast I had a hand in researching and taking part in is available now on Audible: (8 episodes) https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/American-Dreamer-Who-Was-Jay-Gatsby-Audiobook/B0CYQW3YT8

The Rising Tide of Eugenics — Genius Lost and Genius Regained in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, The Vegetable and Love or Eugenics?

Becoming Gatsby, 2023

A look at issues relating to White Supremacism and Eugenics in F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, The Vegetable and his Princeton composition, Love or Eugenics?

Racism and Xenophobia in Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction

2020

Between a rock and a hard place: Racist, xenophobic, and materialist 1920s America struggling for home and identity

Wisam Chaleila/Racism & Xenophobia

Immigration, urbanization, crime, racketeering, and bootlegging are only a few of the many crises that befell America in 1920s. These predicaments, however, were not without consequences. According to the novellas as well as the non-literary texts under discussion, immigration brought with it alien and anti-puritan (derived from Puritanism or more precisely " Reformed Protestantism. " See Humanitas (88)) values that went hand in hand with promiscuity, bacchanalia, fox-trotting, and jazz. Thus, antagonism toward foreigners (new-timers) by native-born Americans (old-timers) is expressed in various forms, particularly racism and xeno-phobia. In addition, foreigners are held responsible for boosting materialism and immorality in ways that shake the texture of the social order and the foundations of the American family and hence the American identity. Therefore, materialism and mass production are also denounced for making the annihilation of these entities possible by the competitive ambiance they create, the ruthlessness they entail, and the brainwashing of the masses they practice. The writers' prejudice is sometimes ambivalent. Covert or overt, it is conveyed by their protagonists and by their extra-literary utterances. Although they censure foreigners, the authors also criticize Americans who renounce their ideals and values for the sake of gold, being enslaved to capitalism, turning into nodding sycophants, mere puppets.

Urban morphology and energy consumption in Italian residential buildings

2015 International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA), 2015

A Study of The Great Gatsby: Devices of Inspiring Imagination

2018

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate Fitzgerald's greatness as a fiction writer and accordingly the value of his novel, The Great Gatsby. The secret of his creating fiction is not the detailed description, but the empty space which he left in the novel. The unidentified elements are what Fitzgerald intended to make, and as a result, the novel holds some ambiguity. However, a lack of detailed description never decreases the quality as a fiction, but rather elicits a fascinating effect on the novel. The author paid attention to this mysterious phenomenon, and tried to reveal it by considering his sense of creation as a fiction writer.

Modernist Presses

Cambridge History of American Modernism, 2023

When we think of US modernist presses, a series of images comes to mind: Horace Liveright, who issued T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land alongside bestselling novels and popular theater plays; Alfred Knopf and his wife Blanche, who promoted the new African American literature and original crime fiction by Dashiell Hammett; B.W. Huebsch, who published Sherwood Anderson, James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence, but also radical political texts. This chapter focuses on the diversity of American modernist presses – from avant-garde imprints to long-established houses, from limited editions to inexpensive reprints. The period between the wars has been mythologized as a “golden age.” This essay scraps the gold to reveal a more nuanced picture of the publishing landscape. As Bennett Cerf (the owner of the Modern Library) declared, flamboyant but dysfunctional houses had no chance of surviving: publishing was a business, and the fun and excitement of discovering new authors would always compete against the necessity of making a profit.

Repeating the Past with Genius: Understanding the role played by the Catholic Church and Americanism in the creation of The Great Gatsby

2023

When F. Scott Fitzgerald announced that his third novel, The Great Gatsby, would have a “Catholic element”, many assumed it to have been lost when the writer discarded the novel’s prologue and published it separately as Absolution in June 1924. Scott’s biographer, Matthew J. Bruccoli, regarded by many as the ‘dean of Fitzgerald Studies’, believed it to be “entirely absent” in the novel. And those who persevered with the idea continue to look for evidence in the finished novel for overtly Catholic symbolism, glib, parodic reprovals of his faith or perceive it as “secularization” of those beliefs or even as evidence of the author’s Jansenism, as Thomas J. Ferraro suggests. In taking a closer look at the depth and character of his Catholic upbringing, and the influence of ‘Americanist’ priest, Isaac T. Hecker on the founding of Fitzgerald’s Catholic prep-school, the Newman School for Boys, I hope to show how the author’s work was less a repudiation of his Catholic faith and more of an attempt to extend, and perhaps update, the Modernist principles that Isaac T. Hecker and the Americanist movement had used to ‘humanize’ the Catholic faith in North America and build on its notions of liberty and human ingenuity (‘genius’) that the group believed was vital to their dreams of ‘perfecting’ the world. And no, I'm not a Catholic.

Translation of phraseological units in the novel “Jenny Gerhardt” by T.Dreiser

2015

The present research deals with phraseological units in T. Dreiser's novel Jennie Gerhardt and their translation into Azerbaijani language. The study simultaneously endeavors at sheding light on the peculiarities of phraseological units and challenges the translator faces in finding correspondence in the target language

The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists. Cambridge University Press, 2013

This Companion examines the full range and vigor of the American novel. From the American exceptionalism of James Fenimore Cooper to the apocalyptic post-Americanism of Cormac McCarthy, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics chronicle the major aesthetic innovations that have shaped the American novel over the past two centuries. The essays evaluate the work, life, and legacy of influential American novelists including Melville, Twain, James, Wharton, Cather, Faulkner, Ellison, Pynchon, and Morrison, while situating them within the context of their literary predecessors and successors. The volume also highlights less familiar, though equally significant writers such as Theodore Dreiser and Djuna Barnes, providing a balanced and wide-ranging survey of use to students, teachers, and general readers of American literature. Table of Contents Introduction Timothy Parrish 1. James Fenimore Cooper Stephen Railton 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne Robert Milder 3. Herman Melville Clark Davis 4. Harriet Beecher Stowe Arthur Riss 5. Mark Twain Peter Messent 6. Henry James Thomas J. Otten 7. Edith Wharton Pamela Knights 8. Theodore Dreiser Clare Eby 9. Willa Cather Timothy Parrish 10. F. Scott Fitzgerald Ruth Prigozy 11. Ernest Hemingway Eugene Goodheart 12. William Faulkner Philip Weinstein 13. Henry Roth Hana Wirth-Nesher 14. Djuna Barnes Alex Goody 15. Zora Neale Hurston Lovalerie King 16. Richard Wright William Dow 17. Raymond Chandler Leonard Cassuto 18. Ralph Ellison David Yaffe 19. J. D. Salinger Sarah Graham 20. Patricia Highsmith Joan Schenkar 21. Vladimir Nabokov Julian W. Connoly 22. Jack Kerouac Joshua Kupetz 23. Saul Bellow Victoria Aarons 24. Kurt Vonnegut Todd Davis 25. John Updike James Schiff 26. Thomas Pynchon David Seed 27. Toni Morrison Valerie Smith 28. Philip Roth Debra Shostak 29. Don DeLillo Thomas Heise 30. Cormac McCarthy Brian Evenson Guide to further reading Index.