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An Image from the 1974 film adaptation of The Great Gatsby Robert Redford plays Gatsby while Mia Farrow plays Daisy ENGL1001 – American LiteratureF. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby (1926) Dr. John Masterson John.masterson@wits.ac.za 2011 You can access these presentations through the ENGL1 blog Go to – Objectives of these lectures Where does ‘English’ literature stop and ‘American’ literature begin? Author and text IN CONTEXT – historical, geographical, political, economic, biographical, cultural, ideological et al. Gatsby – resonance and relevance – then (1926) and now (2011 – Baz Luhrmann, Leonardo DiCaprio and Toby Maguire). Politics of Canonicity. Central argument – close, sensitive reading of text will be pursued ALONGSIDE engaging with much broader contextual debates. For my purposes, the relationship between the two is AND MUST REMAIN RECIPROCAL rather than mutually exclusive. Herman Melville, ‘Hawthorne and His Mosses’ 1850 “no American writer should write like an Englishman, or a Frenchman; let him write like a man, for then he will be sure to write like an American … Let us boldly condemn all imitation, though it comes to us graceful and fragrant as the morning, and foster all originality, though, at first, it be crabbed and ugly as our own pine knots.” F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Obituary (1896-1940) published in The New York Times “The best of his books, the critics said, was The Great Gatsby. When it was published in 1926 this ironic tale of life on Long Island at a time when gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession (according to the exponents of Mr. Fitzgerald’s school of writers), it received critical acclaim. In it Mr. Fitzgerald was at his best, which was, according to John Chamberlain, his “ability to catch the flavor of a period, the fragrance of a night, a snatch of old song, in a phrase.” Taken from letter written by Fitzgerald to his daughter, cited in Matthew J. Bruccoli, Some Sort of