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"The world's rarest work": modernism and masculinity in Fitzgerald's 'Tender is the Night.' (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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From: College Literature
Date: 19980322
Author:Nowlin, Michael

'Tender is the Night' was an attempt by F. Scott Fitzgerald to portray the effects of resistance to the feminization of culture. The novel's protagonist, Dick Diver, sought to overthrow maternal power as well as to eradicate the hold of his lover over him while at the same time seeking to be desired by women. It is this misogynistic bent of the novel that Fitzgerald lauded as a novel idea during his heyday.

That particular trick is one that Ernest Hemingway and I worked out - probably from Conrad's preface to "The Nigger" - and it has been the greatest "credo" in my life, ever since I ...

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