Editor’s Note vii
Introduction 1
Harold Bloom
Disembodied Voices and Narrating
Bodies in The Great Gatsby 13
Barbara Hochman
Deceitful Traces of Power: An Analysis of the
Decadence of Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby 39
Alberto Lena
The Great Gatsby—The Text as Construct:
Narrative Knots and Narrative Unfolding 59
Richard Lehan
The Great Gatsby’s Aesthetics of Non-Identity 71
John Hilgart
Pastoral Mode and Language in The Great Gatsby 97
Janet Giltrow and David Stouck
“. . . and the long secret extravaganza was played out”:
The Great Gatsby and Carnival in a
Bakhtinian Perspective 109
Winifred Farrant Bevilacqua
The Great Gatsby and The Obscene Word 125
Barbara Will
The American Carnival of The Great Gatsby 145
Philip McGowan
The Trouble with Nick: Reading Gatsby Closely 157
Scott Donaldson
Chronology 167
Contributors 169
Bibliography 171
Acknowledgments 175
Index 177
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