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Memorials and monuments: historical method and the (re)construction of memory in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Ice Palace".(Critical Essay)

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From: Studies in Short Fiction
Date: 19990922
Author:Ullrich, David W.

   All schemes of morality are nothing more than efforts to put into permanent 
   codes the expedients found useful by some given race. 
 
   --H. L. Mencken, The Philosophy of Nietzsche (ix) 

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Poor Fitzgerald--forever ensconced in the halls of academe as a writer's version of Oz's Scarecrow: "If he only had a brain." This critical estimate, established by Edmund Wilson in 1922 (27-35), persists today (Meyers 51-54), despite Fitzgerald's accomplishments. More to my point, Fitzgerald named Mencken's The Philosophy of Nietzsche, which links cultural codes with the ambitions ...

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