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full of phrases which make a scene blaze with life," winding up with: "You once told me you were not a natural writer-my God! You have It's scope is such as to make 'The Great Gatsby' seem small and simple." On receiving the manuscript of "The Great Gatsby," Maxwell Perkins of Scribner's, in an excited andĮxciting letter, writes to Fitzgerald of "the general brilliant quality of the book. Margaret Marshall, in The Nation in 1941, calls Fitzgerald's "a fair-weather talent" and says that "Tender Is the Night" is "a confused exercise in self-pity" Arthur Mizener says of the same novel that it "remains Taken one after the other in immediate succession, they are bewildering, inevitably. Make fascinating reading, even when we don't agree with them. Eliot, Alfred Kazin, William Troy, Jon Chamberlain, Mark Schorer-thirty altogether. Some of the best critical minds in the United States and England are here represented-Edmund Wilson, Lionel Trilling, Paul Rosenfeld, T.S. Shelf beside Arthur Mizener's very moving biography, "The Far Side of Paradise." This is an instructive and intensely interesting book, one to be placed on your permanent The Nation, The Dial, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Yale Review, The Bookman and other periodicals in which most of these pieces first appeared. Now you can throw away those old copies you have been saving of The Virginia Quarterly Review, Scott Fitzgerald, the first two dated 1920, the last two 1950. Here is a collection of reviews and essays, some of them brilliant indeed, on the work of F. By determining differences between a film and a novel, hidden and unhidden aspects of the novel will be illuminated and this is a pleasure that a comparatist seeks.ApThe Critics and Fitzgerald By CHARLES JACKSON Similarities and differences between a novel and film are illuminated through this research. In this article all of these four main parts of Hutcheon’s theory are scrutinized over 2013 adaptation of The Great Gatsby by Buz Luhrmann. When and Where, refers to the time and place of the adaptation process and its influence both during creation and reception process. She tries to find out different motivation of an adapter to adapt a work.
She poses this question that in adaptation process who is the real adapter? Director, composer, screenplay writer or editor? Why, refers to the motivation of the adapter. What, refers to the form, changes, gains and losses, using different tools to convey meaning. What? Who and Why? How? When and Where? Through these four main parts, she scrutinizes adaptation process. She categorizes four different parts for her theory. Linda Hutchean is a famous adaptation theorist and her theories are used by many critics. While novel uses words, cinema uses visual and aural images to convey meaning. Each has its own language to convey meaning. Both Literature and Cinema are two different mediums or different means of expression. Adaptation studies is a subdivision of Comparative Literature that makes a bond between Literature and Cinema. Comparative Literature is categorized among interdisciplinary studies and tries to bridge a gap between different and separated spheres of human studies.