In this study, Ronald Berman examines the work of the critic/novelist Edmund Wilson and the art of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as they wrestled with the problems of language, experience, perception and reality in the "age of jazz." By focusing specifically on aesthetics - the ways t
Fitzgerald-Wilson-Hemingway: Language and Experience
β Scribed by Ronald Berman
- Publisher
- University Alabama Press
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 135
- Edition
- 1st hardback/1st Printing
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
In this study, Ronald Berman examines the work of the critic/novelist Edmund Wilson and the art of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as they wrestled with the problems of language, experience, perception and reality in the "age of jazz." By focusing specifically on aesthetics - the ways these writers translated everyday reality into language - Berman challenges and redefines many routinely accepted ideas concerning the legacy of these authors. Fitzgerald is generally thought of as a romantic, but Berman shows that we need to expand the idea of Romanticism to include its philosophy. Hemingway, widely viewed as a stylist who captured experience by simplifying language, is revealed as consciously demonstrating reality's resistance to language. Between these two renowned writers stands Wilson, who is critically influenced by Alfred North Whitehead, as well as Dewey, James, Santayana and Freud. By patiently mapping the correctness of these philosophers, historians, literary critics and writers, Berman aims to open a gateway into the era. This work should be of interest to scholars of American literature, philosophy and aesthetics; to academic libraries; to students of intellectual history; and to general readers interested in Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Wilson.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
1 The Last Romantic Critic......Page 20
2 America in Fitzgerald......Page 36
3 Edmund Wilson and Alfred North Whitehead......Page 53
4 Realityβs Thickness......Page 69
5 Hemingwayβs Plain Language......Page 86
6 Hemingwayβs Limits......Page 97
Notes......Page 112
Index......Page 130
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