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This essay offers a parallel reading of F. S. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Pietro DiDonato's Christ in Concrete, focusing on the similarities in content and situation between the two novels, and on the ideological and stylistic factors, as well as the politics of reading, that have resulted in the vastly different canonical status of the two novels.

Alternative Modernisms: A Contrapuntal Reading of The Great Gatsby and Christ in Concrete

Donatella Izzo
2021-01-01

Abstract

This essay offers a parallel reading of F. S. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Pietro DiDonato's Christ in Concrete, focusing on the similarities in content and situation between the two novels, and on the ideological and stylistic factors, as well as the politics of reading, that have resulted in the vastly different canonical status of the two novels.
2021
Inglese
AAVV
Siân Gibby, Joseph Sciorra, and Anthony Tamburri
This Hope Sustains the Scholar. Essays in Tribute to the Work of Robert Viscusi
61
88
28
9781599541679
Bordighera Press
New York
STATI UNITI D'AMERICA
Comitato scientifico
sì
The Great Gatsby, Christ in Concrete, capitalism, canonization
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no
1
Izzo, Donatella
2 Contributo in Volume::2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)
268
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