Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is widely seen as the quintessential 'great American novel, ' and the extensive body of criticism on the work bears out its significance in American letters. American Icon traces its reception and its canonical status in American literature, popular…
Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' is widely seen as the quintessential "great American novel," and the extensive criticism on the work bears out its significance in American letters. 'American Icon' traces its reception and its rise to canonical status in American literature, popu…
Stefan George (1868-1933) was one of the most important figures in modern German culture. His poetry, in its originality and impact, has been ranked with that of Goethe and HoÌlderlin. Yet George's reach extended beyond the sphere of literature. In the early 1900s, he gathered …
The ideas of the George Circle profoundly affected Germany's educated middle class, especially in the aftermath of the First World War, when their critique of bourgeois liberalism, materialism, and scholarship ('Wissenschaft') as well as their call for new forms of leadership ('…
