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M/C Journal
Dream Machines: The Motorcar as Sign of Conquest and Destruction in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
2020 •
Paul Ryder
In my article, "A New Sound; a New Sensation: A Cultural and Literary Reconsideration of the Motorcar in Modernity" (Ryder), I propose that "a range of semiotic engines" may be mobilised "to argue that, in the first quarter of the twentieth century, the motorcar is received as relatum profundis of freedom". In that 2019 article I further argue that, as Roland Barthes has indirectly proposed, the automobile fits into a "highway code" and into a broader "car system" in which its attributes—including its architectural details—are received as signs of liberation (Barthes Elements, 10, 29). While extending that argument, with near exclusive focus on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) and with special reference to the hero’s Rolls Royce, I argue here that the automobile is offered as a sign of both conquest and destruction; as both dream machine and vehicle of nightmare. This is not to suggest that the motorcar was, prior to 192...
SSRN Electronic Journal
Gatsby and Tort
2015 •
Robin West
F. Scott Fitzgerald Reviiew
Gatsby's Green Light as a Traffic Signal: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Motive Force
2016 •
Yasuhiro Takeuchi
F. Scott Fitzgerald's use of vehicles in The Great Gatsby constitutes more than just a symbolic motif: cars, trains, boats, and other means of transportation structure the plot, providing the narrative with motive force and mobility. Characters are brought together and torn apart through changes to the scenario, when vehicles actually start and stop. The characters' ephemeral relationships start with their riding in the same vehicle, and end—or are brought back to reality—when the vehicle comes to a halt. Within this structure, the novel's central motif, the “green light,” acts as a traffic signal, giving Gatsby the go-ahead to move onward to create the short-lived world founded upon his belief in mobility. Appropriately, the appearance of Gatsby's natural father following the final crash, a symbolic accident denoting the end of his dream, indicates what Gatsby had essentially tried to “move” all along: his unchangeable breeding and past. This article taps into the possibility of reevaluating time and breeding—the conventional themes in Fitzgerald's novel—from the perspective of literal vehicle mobility, which provides important structure to Nick's narrative.
“Unutterable Visions:” Representations of the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fiction
Adriana Mancaş
So we drove on towards death": release and mechanized violence in The Great Gatsby
2015 •
Clayton Powers
Eric J. Leed postulates a theory of restraint and release as formative forces in the trenches of the European fronts. I examine F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby for its portrayal of release that is tied to the presence of automobile “accidents.” These events emblematize the suppressed memory of mechanized violence. My first chapter addresses Gatsby and his fantasy of release in pursuing Daisy and the implications of release for morality in the post-war world. My second chapter is concerned with Tom Buchanan, whose traditional ideas about “civilization” are juxtaposed with the mechanistic violence of his defense of those ideals. My third chapter explores the relationships the novel’s characters possess to the automobile as a character, and further, how automobility enables release. My conclusion will synthesize the evidence in Fitzgerald’s novel to make observations about the disconnect, forged out of a new age of mechanized warfare, between individuals and their act...
Buletin Al-Turas
The Power of Hegemonic Classes in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
Hasnul I Djohar
Topik dari tulisan ini adalah untuk membahas kajian budaya dengan berfokus pada hegemoni budaya, memperkenalkan gagasan dari kelompok yang berkuasa untuk mengontrol masyarakat. Tulisan ini akan mengangkat isu bagaimana kelas-kelas yang menguasai hidup pada tahun 1920an. Tujuan dari tulisan ini adalah untuk menganalisis The Great Gatsby karya Scott Fitgerald untuk menyimpulkan tentang gambaran kelas dan kekuatan aristrokrasi untuk mendominasi kelompok yang tidak berkuasa, dengan menggunakan kajian budaya, dari teori hegemoni Antonio Gramci. Secara khusus, penelitian ini berfokus pada perjuangan Jay Gatsby untuk menghadapi hegemoni kelompok aristokratik, yang kekuasaannya sangat berpengaruh. Dalam cerita tersebut, kelompok kaya baru, yang diwakili oleh Jay Gatsby, hidup di daerah West Egg, sem*ntara kelompok aristokratik, yang diwakili oleh Tom Buchanan, tinggal di East Egg. Tom selalu menjadi pemenang karena dia datang dari kelompok aristokratik, yang keluarganya sangat berpengaruh....
University of Pireaus
The Roaring Twenties As Depicted in S. Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"
2022 •
Anthony (Antonios) Eleftherakis
"The Great Gatsby", the iconic novel of Fitzgerald is used as a guide to unravel the most significant aspects of the Roaring Twenties. This unique period of unprecedented economic growth is best described in the nine chapters of "The Great Gatsby", in which one can clearly understand the impact of WWI on the U.S society. The Prohibition era with bootleggers and speakeasies along with the "flappers" are highlighted in this paper. The notions of "class" and "race" are underscored in "The Great Gatsby" along with Jazz music, Automobiles and the American Dream. Last but not least, the thesis refers to the cinematic representation of the Roaring Twenties in the various Gatsby movies.
Fitzgerald and the evental site of modernity
2022 •
Ursula Vooght
Introduction to The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Editions
Guy Reynolds
UNMASKING HISTORICAL SUBSTRATA: NEXUS BETWEEN
Karunakaran Thirunavukkarasu
