A Distant Drummer

A Distant Drummer attends more to F. Scott Fitzgerald's aesthetic merits, ideas, style, techniques, context of his works and less to biographical details which, critics believe, are intricately interwoven within his works. In striving to respond to Fitzgerald's artistry away from the impulse of the author's personal experience, it is in a very strange paradox more attuned and, in consequence, closer to Fitzgerald, who wanted his fiction to be objectively judged and free of the stigma which besmirches his reputation.

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The Editors: Jamal Assadi, Assistant Professor, is Chair of Teacher Administration and of the English Department at the College of Sakhnin for Teacher Education in Israel. He received his Ph.D. in modern American fiction from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in England. In addition to numerous articles in professional journals, he is the author of Acting, Rhetoric, & Interpretation in Selected Novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Saul Bellow (Peter Lang, 2006), Practicum Guide (2006), and children stories. William Freedman is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Haifa and a teacher in the English Department at the College of Sakhnin for Teacher Education in Israel. He has published two books of literary criticism, an oral history of baseball fans, numerous critical and theoretical essays, and poetry in various literary journals and reviews. Most recently, he has published a collection of his poems, Being Them All (2006).

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Contents: Jamal Assadi: Introduction - Bonnie Shannon McMullen: «This Tremendous Detail»: The Oxford Stone in the House of Gatsby» - Nicole Guetin: Icons and Myths in The Great Gatsby - Michel Viel: Translations as Instruments of Analysis: The Great Gatsby in French - Somdatta Mandal: Of Celebrity Status, Posthumous Publications, Scholar's Choice, and the American Novel: A Case Study of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Trimalchio - Horst Kruse: The Anxiety of the Diver: F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Swimmer Motif - Elisabeth Bouzonviller: The Frontiers that Artists Must Explore - Marie-Agnès Gay: Vision and Loss in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night - Pascale Antolin: F.S. Fitzgerald's Lists as Lexical Playfields in Tender Is the Night - Patricia Fra-López: Fitzgerald's Professional Women: Jenny Prince in 'Jacob's Ladder' and Helen Avery in 'Magnetism' as Antecedents of Rosemary Hoyt in Tender is the Night - Andrew Hook: Scott Fitzgerald's Current British Reputation.