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Inside The Great Gatsby: The Hidden Subtext is a revolutionary analysis of the famed novel that reveals its important previously unknown literary foundations drawn from classical and modern literature, including the works of Dante, Milton, Conrad, Spengler, Frazer, Weston, Joyce, Eliot, and the King James Bible. Other studies of the novel have focused primarily on its biographical, cultural, or social issues, but none prior to Elmore's have systematically examined the unrecognized debts Gatsby owes to previous literary works. The ultimate irony is that Gatsby, lauded as one of the greatest novels in the English language, earned its stature based solely on recognition of only a part of its whole—the literal narrative, or surface story—without realization or acknowledgment of its foundational subtext, the hidden layer that links it to the universal library of human experience, most of which remained undetected until the centennial year of the novel's original publication.
Contents
Editor's Note, John H. Kuhnle
Preface
Introduction: Nine Propositions in Making Peace with a Classic
Chapter One: The Meaning of The Great Gatsby
Chapter Two: Literary Impressionism as Fitzgerald's First Lodestar
Chapter Three: Symbolism in the Upside-Down Heaven of East Egg
Chapter Four: Hell on Earth in the Valley of Ashes
Chapter Five: West Egg as Earth and Eden
Chapter Six: Manhattan as Purgatory
Chapter Seven: Echoes of Spengler
Chapter Eight: Links to Eliot, Frazer, and Weston
Chapter Nine: Gatsby as the "Two Adams"
Works Cited
About the Author
