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Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph was born on August 21, 1931 in New York City. Son of Joseph M. and Mary (Gervasi) Bruccoli.
( Working with the complete collection of Tender is the N...)
Working with the complete collection of Tender is the Night manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, Matthew J. Bruccoli reconstructs seventeen drafts and three versions of the novel to answer questions about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s major work that have long puzzled critics of modern literature. In 1934, nine years after the appearance of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald permitted publication of Tender is the Night. Disappointed by its critical reception, Fitzgerald suggested that the structure of the novel should be drastically rearranged. In 1951, eleven years after his death, Charles Scribner’s Sons brought out an edition that incorporated Fitzgerald’s changes. Controversy arose over the merits of the two published versions and over the “nine lost years” in Fitzgerald’s life between his two great novels, years of rewriting before publication of Tender is the Night that resulted in six cartons of notes and drafts. After analyzing this wealth of material, Bruccoli reconstructs every working stage in the novel and reaches his own conclusions about which edition is the most valid.
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Re-creating the author’s intention from the manuscripts, this study shows that Fitzgerald regarded none of his material as final but, rather, as material toward a novel quite possibly about the American Dreama respectful study of the American business hero. Mr. Bruccoli’s transcription and analyses of the manuscripts and notes for the unfinished novel serve two related purposes: they enable us to gauge the state of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work-in-progress at the time of his death and thereby to reassess this work properly. Examination of Fitzgerald’s drafts reveal that he regarded none of this material as finished. There are no final draftsonly latest working drafts. After Chapter One there are no chapters, and even this is marked for rewrite. And Fitzgerald’s undated last outline provides only topics or ideas for the thirteen unwritten episodes. The Last Tycoon has always been read as a Hollywood novela novel about the movies. It is far from certain that the title was final, but it is clear that Fitzgerald conceived Monroe Stahr as a tycoon.” Fitzgerald’s tentative title The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western” is instructive: it connects Stahr with all the other poor boys who went West to seek their fortunes. I am the last of the novelists for a long time now,” Fitzgerald wrote in a note for The Last Tycoon. His statement does not refer to technique or to form, Mr. Bruccoli claims; it can be understood only in terms of theme and character. Stahr exemplifies Fitzgerald’s belief in the American Dreamdecency, honor, courage, responsibility, and the possibilities of the American lifeand Fitzgerald regarded himself as the last of the American novelists writing on this great theme.
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Dust jacket design by Jack Ribik. Bruccoli reevaluates these two authors and their friendship by examining their lives and correspondence.
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(The standard work on Fitzgerald, revised, enlarged, and u...)
The standard work on Fitzgerald, revised, enlarged, and updated; Since its first publication in 1981, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur has stood apart from other biographies of F. Scott Fitzgerald for its thoroughness and volume of information. It is regarded today as the basic work on Fitzgerald and the preeminent source for the study of the novelist. In this second revised edition, Matthew J. Bruccoli provides new evidence discovered since its original edition. This new edition of Some Sort of Epic Grandeur improves, augments, and updates the standard biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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("F. Scott Fitzgerald on Authorship" assembles Fitzgerald'...)
"F. Scott Fitzgerald on Authorship" assembles Fitzgerald's public and private writings on his trade and craft. The 46 selections in this volume construct an autobiographical account of Fiztgerald's 20-year endeavour to maintain careers as a commercial writer and as a literary artist. In a substantial introduction to the volume, Matthew J. Bruccoli positions Fitzgerald as a case history for the profession-of-authorship approach to American literary history as formulated by William Charvat. Bruccoli challenges familiar myths about Fitzgerald's squandering of fortunes and literary genius, and he exposes the error of segregating Fitzgerald's magazine and movie work from his novels. In his own words, Fitzgerald corrects the most condescending and irksome notion about him - that he was a literary ignoramous who wrote brilliantly without knowing what he was doing. As these letters, notebook entries, book reviews and articles indicate, Fitzgerald reached usable conclusions about the craft of writing, the discipline of authorship and the obligations of literature.
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This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.Dictionary of Literary Biography systematically presents career biographies and criticism of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods.For a listing of Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes sorted by genre click here.
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(This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to ma...)
This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.Dictionary of Literary Biography systematically presents career biographies and criticism of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods.For a listing of Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes sorted by genre click here.
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Although Frank Norris (1870-1902) was only 32 when he died, the Zola-inspired author of "McTeaque" and "The Octopus" vastly influenced the developments of American naturalism. He wrote almost seven novels and 300 short stories, articles, reviews, plays, and poems, displaying his versatility as a fiction writer, journalist, and critical thinker concerned with fin-de-siecle Western culture. Joseph McElrath has defined Norris's canon in this account of his publications in their many reprintings through 1990. Short writings are identified in their original periodical appearances and reprintings. Previously unknown works are cited for the first time, and works no longer thought to be Norris's are listed separately.
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Joseph Heller (1923-1999) became a major American author in 1961 with the publication of his first novel, "Catch-22". He subsequently published six more novels, three plays, and two volumes of nonfiction. This bibliography of Heller's works describes all printings of all editions of his books in the English language, including British publications. It also identifies Heller's contributions to books written or edited by other authors, his periodical appearances, and his published interviews.
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(Although Frank Norris (1870-1902) was only 32 when he die...)
Although Frank Norris (1870-1902) was only 32 when he died, the Zola-inspired author of "McTeaque" and "The Octopus" vastly influenced the developments of American naturalism. He wrote almost seven novels and 300 short stories, articles, reviews, plays, and poems, displaying his versatility as a fiction writer, journalist, and critical thinker concerned with fin-de-siecle Western culture. Joseph McElrath has defined Norris's canon in this account of his publications in their many reprintings through 1990. Short writings are identified in their original periodical appearances and reprintings. Previously unknown works are cited for the first time, and works no longer thought to be Norris's are listed separately.
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A very extensive and thorough bibliography. Covers Separate Publications, First-Appearance Contributions to Books and Pamphlets, First Appearances in Journals and Newspapers, and Later Collections of Dickey's Poems. The Appendices contain the compiler's notes and list major works about Dickey. Very well-illustrated and with a good index. xxii, 423 pages. cloth.. 8vo..
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Understanding Richard Powers presents an introduction to one of the most important and admired writers to emerge in the post-Pynchon era of American literature. Joseph Dewey contends that while Powers's novels investigate the most pressing issues of the new millennium, the novelist is most deeply interested in the same thematic argument that consumed Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson-the problem of the self, the deep and unshakable loneliness that has always been at the heart of the American literary imagination. Through an overview of Powers's career and close readings of his novels, which include Galatea 2.2, Prisoner's Dilemma, The Gold Bug Variations, Operation Wandering Soul, Gain, and Plowing the Dark, Dewey places Powers in context as a major voice in the first generation born entirely within the era of television and the computer and shows us how Powers reminds his readers that we have never been so connected and yet never quite so alone.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon has emerged as one of the most daring writers of American fiction in the post-Pynchon era. Joseph Dewey examines how Chabon's narratives have sought to bring together the defining elements of the two principal expressions of the American narrative that his generation inherited: the formal extravagances of postmodernism and the compelling storytelling of psychological realism. Like the audacious, self-conscious excesses of Pynchon and his postmodern disciples, Dewey argues, Chabon's fictions are extravagant, often ironic, experiments into form animated by dense verbal and linguistic energy. As with the probing texts of psychological realism by Updike and his faithful, Chabon's fictions center on keenly drawn, recognizable characters caught up in familiar, heartbreaking dilemmas; enthralling storylines compelled by suspense, enriched with suggestive symbols; and humane themes about love and death, work and family, and sexuality and religion. Evolving over three decades, this hybrid fiction has made Chabon not only one of the most widely read composers of serious fiction of his guild but one of the most critically respected writers as well, thus positioning Chabon as a representative voice of the generation. Dewey's study, the first to examine the full breadth of Chabon's fiction from his landmark debut novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, to his controversial 2012 best seller, Telegraph Avenue, places Chabon's fictional sensibility, for all its hipness, within what has been the defining theme of American literature since the provocative romances of Hawthorne and Melville: the anxious tension between escape and engagement; between the sweet, centripetal pull of the redemptive imagination as a splendid, if imperfect, engine of retreat and the harsh, centrifugal pull of real life itself, recklessly deformed by the crude handiwork of surprise and chance and unable to coax even the simplest appearance of logic.
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Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph was born on August 21, 1931 in New York City. Son of Joseph M. and Mary (Gervasi) Bruccoli.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale University, 1953; Master of Arts, University Virginia, 1956; Doctor of Philosophy, University Virginia, 1961.
Professor English Ohio State University, Columbus, 1961—1969, University South Carolina, Columbia, 1969—2005, Emily Brown Jefferies professor English, 1976—2005. Curator modern American literature Thomas Cooper Library., 1995—2008. Director Center for Editions of America Authors, 1969-1976.
President Bruccoli Clark Layman, Publications, 1976-2008, Manly Inc., 1981-2008.
( Re-creating the author’s intention from the manuscripts...)
(This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to ma...)
(This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to ma...)
(Although Frank Norris (1870-1902) was only 32 when he die...)
(Although Frank Norris (1870-1902) was only 32 when he die...)
(The standard work on Fitzgerald, revised, enlarged, and u...)
(Understanding Richard Powers presents an introduction to ...)
(Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon has emerged ...)
( Working with the complete collection of Tender is the N...)
(Joseph Heller (1923-1999) became a major American author ...)
(A complete study of the book including holographic pages ...)
(A research archive documenting Fitzgerald's career and li...)
(Book by Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph, Baughman, Judith)
(Notes, photos, index, bibliography, appendixes.)
(Biography, American Studies, Literary Studies)
(A very extensive and thorough bibliography. Covers Separa...)
(Clean, tight text and dust jacket.)
(Dust jacket design by Jack Ribik. Bruccoli reevaluates th...)
(Book by Matthew J. Bruccoli (Edited by))
(First edition. Definitive work to date. xvi, 149 pages. c...)
(Revised)
("F. Scott Fitzgerald on Authorship" assembles Fitzgerald'...)
Author: The Composition of Tender Is the Night, 1963, The Last of the Novelists, 1977, The O'Hara Concern, 1975, Scott and Ernest, 1978, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1981, James Gould Cozzens, 1983, Ross Macdonald, 1984, The Fortunes of Mitchell Kennerley, Bookman, 1986, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hemingway, 1994, Reader's Companion to Tender Is the Night, 1996. Editor: Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual, 1969-1970. Series editor Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1978-2008, Lost American Fiction, 1972-1980, Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography, 1971-2008, Selected Letters of John O'Hara, 1978, Just Representations: A James Gould Cozzens Reader, 1978, Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1980, Understanding Contemporary American Literature, 1985-2008, Understanding Contemporary British Literature, 1989-2008, Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940-1977, 1989, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1991-1993, Zelda Fitzgerald The Collected Writings, 1991, F. Scott Fitzgerald A Life in Letters, 1994, F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, 1995, F. Scott Fitzgerald on Authorship, 1996, The Only Thing that Counts, 1996, American Expatriate Writers: Paris in the Twenties, 1997, (with A. Bruccoli) Thomas Wolfe's O Lost, 2000, (with P. Bucker) To Loot My Life Clean, 2000, Classes on F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2001, Classes on Ernest Hemingway, 2002, James Gould Cozzens: A Documentary Volume, 2004.
Member of South Carolina Academy Authors, Palmetto Club, Yale Club.
Married Arlyn Shuey Firkins, October 5, 1957. Children: Mary Firkins, Joseph Matthew, Josephine Arlyn, Arlyn Barbara.