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F. Scott Fitzgerald and the fiction of failure.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	F. Scott Fitzgerald and the fiction of failure./
Author:	Sweetman, Charles P.
Description:	364 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-06, Section: A, page: 2087.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-06A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=3095557

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the fiction of failure.
Sweetman, Charles P.

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the fiction of failure. - 364 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-06, Section: A, page: 2087.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Washington University, 2003.

“F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Fiction of Failure” reconsiders Fitzgerald's career from the vantage point of his preoccupation with defeat. From the early stories to <italic>The Last Tycoon</italic>, Fitzgerald depicted protagonists who lose their ability to resist the forces that overwhelm ambition and lead to fragmentation. The biographical record, read in tandem with research on narcissism and self-esteem regulation, reveals a Fitzgerald who felt uneasy approaching the achievements toward which his high expectations urged him. Even success could make him feel like an impostor. As a result, I contend, he often handicapped his performance, accepting the certainty of failure over the anxiety of performance. His plots and romantic prose style often take shape as a protest against limitation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the fiction of failure.
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520 $a “F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Fiction of Failure” reconsiders Fitzgerald's career from the vantage point of his preoccupation with defeat. From the early stories to <italic>The Last Tycoon</italic>, Fitzgerald depicted protagonists who lose their ability to resist the forces that overwhelm ambition and lead to fragmentation. The biographical record, read in tandem with research on narcissism and self-esteem regulation, reveals a Fitzgerald who felt uneasy approaching the achievements toward which his high expectations urged him. Even success could make him feel like an impostor. As a result, I contend, he often handicapped his performance, accepting the certainty of failure over the anxiety of performance. His plots and romantic prose style often take shape as a protest against limitation.
520 $a Yet, in the aftermath of personal defeat, lost promise could be regarded with romantic nostalgia. Attributions could be arranged, motives purified, shame relieved. As often as Fitzgerald gave in to defeat, he sought to repair its damage and restore his confidence in the future. This effort began as an imaginative act. He once called literature “a backdoor way out of life,” understanding that through writing he could achieve some of the success that had eluded him. Part of this success lay in the ameliorative meaning that he could read back on the past as he reinscribed it.
520 $a Such efforts at self-organization are necessarily imperfect—skewed among other things by the conventions of discourse, the limits of honesty, the complexity of psychic compulsions. I triangulate the writings, the life, and psychological theory to provide a reading of Fitzgerald's career that stands apart from his own governing preoccupation with failure. I have attempted to write what might be called a biography of Fitzgerald's imagination, centered on the drama of psychological adjustment. My thesis is that, however drawn Fitzgerald was to the idea of failure, however much his life gradually took the shape of his own imaginings of it, failure was at the heart of the rhetorical enterprise by which he sought to give meaning to his life and through which he sought to redirect it.
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