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Oxford Literature Companions: The Great Gatsby
Garrett O'Doherty
Oxford Literature Companions: The Great Gatsby
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Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Level set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characterisation and role, genre, context, language, themes, structure and critical views, whilst also providing a range of varied and in-depth activities to deepen understanding and encourage close work wtih the text. Each book also includes a comprehensive Skills and Practice section, which provides detailed advice on assessment and a bank of exam-style questions and annotated sample student answers. This guide covers The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald.

Language
English
ISBN
9780198398974
Front Cover
Title Page
Introduction
Plot and Structure
Plot
Structure
Context
Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald
The First World War
The lost generation
Changing role of women
The Jazz Age
Advertising and the mass market
Conspicuous consumption
Immigration
The ‘American Dream’
Genre
An American novel
Romanticism
Realism
Novel of manners
Satire
The lost generation
Rags to riches
Modernism
Narrative gaps and time
Tragedy
Characterization and Roles
Main characters
Minor characters
Language
Nick’s language
The epigraph
Appeal to the senses
Syntax
Symbolism
Figures of speech
Themes
The American Dream
Love and relationships
Social class
Women
Moral decay
Time
Corrective vision
Racism
Technology
West versus East
Religion
Crime
Immigration
Critical Views
Feminist criticism
Marxist criticism
Psychoanalytic criticism
Gatsby as America
Skills and Practice
Exam skills
Sample questions
Sample answers
Glossary
Back Cover
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