Ruth Prigozy
Auteur de F. Scott Fitzgerald
A propos de l'auteur
Ruth Prigozy is Professor of English at Hofstra University. She is the editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald and coeditor of F. Scott Fitzgerald: New Perspectives, and one of the three founders of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, for which she serves as Executive afficher plus Director. She also edited The Great Gatsby for Oxford University Press. She was featured in Omnibus's Great Gatsby program on BBC television in 2001 afficher moins
Œuvres de Ruth Prigozy
The Great Gatsby 3 exemplaires
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (Landmarks of World Literature (New)) (2008) — Auteur — 2 exemplaires
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Modern European filmmakers and the art of adaptation (Ungar film library) (1981) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
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- Nom légal
- Prigozy, Ruth
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Professions
- English professor
- Organisations
- Hofstra University
F. Scott Fitzgerald Society - Courte biographie
- Ruth Prigozy is Professor of English specializing in twentieth-century American literature at Hofstra University.. She also teaches film studies in the School of Communication. She is Executive Director of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, and has edited or authored six books and many essays on Fitzgerald including The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald, and F. Scott Fitzgerald: An Illustrated Life. She has also published on Ernest Hemingway, the Hollywood Ten, and J. D. Salinger, as well as on film directors Billy Wilder and Vittorio de Sica. Her interest in popular culture has resulted in editing books with essays on Frank Sinatra and on Bing Crosby. She recently published a biography of singer/actor Dick Haymes, and is currently under contract for a biography of singer/actor Gordon MacRae.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
I've never been particularly interested in American literature, but I thought I would give this a go as it's quite short. I'm glad I did. Beautiful language: concise and powerful. I instinctively disliked the prudish, self-righteous narrator, but I suppose that's a cultural and time difference. Many of the themes are familiar from Proust's "In Search of Lost Time", in particular the aesthetic fixation on the love-object of the mind rather than the real person. I have never studied Fitzgerald, so maybe this is well-known; he did spend time in France, and his novel came out well after the first of Proust's volumes.… (plus d'informations)
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- Œuvres
- 7
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- 2
- Membres
- 112
- Popularité
- #174,306
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 15