Essays about: "Jazz Age"

Found 4 essays containing the words Jazz Age.

  1. 1. An Illusion of the American Dream : The Great Gatsby from a Feminist Perspective

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

    Author : Martina Lotun; [2021]
    Keywords : The Great Gatsby; F. Scott Fitzgerald; the American Dream; feminism; feminist narratology; patriarchy; flapper; the Roaring Twenties; the Jazz Age;

    Abstract : The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald encapsulates the Roaring Twenties, a period of social and political change. The economy is thriving, and the American Dream, with its promise of monetary wealth, happiness and upward mobility, is seemingly within reach. READ MORE

  3. 2. A Journey Greater Than You Think, Unknown in Its Details, But More Loving Than Nostalgia : -An Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Anja Skogberg Lundin; [2019]
    Keywords : Fitzgerald; Gatsby; Identity; Ideology; Culture; Society; American society; Jazz Age; 1920s; Public; Private; Class;

    Abstract : Abstract This essay is an analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and it explores how identity and ideology always exist in a context of time. The American 1920s society was influenced by theories brought by Marxism, Albert Einstein and Freud. READ MORE

  4. 3. Putting Jazz on the Page : "The Weary Blues" and "Jazztet Muted" by Langston Hughes

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Ralph Hertzberg McKnight; [2019]
    Keywords : Langston Hughes; “The Weary Blues”; “JAZZTET MUTED”; the blues; jazz; Harlem; be-bop; the “Jazz-Age”; African-American history; “jazz poetry”;

    Abstract : The goal of this essay is to look at the poems “The Weary Blues” and “JAZZTETMUTED” (hereafter to be referred to as “JAZZTET”) by Langston Hughes andexamine their relationships to both the blues and jazz structurally, lyrically, andthematically. I examine the relationship of blues and jazz to the African-Americancommunity of Harlem, New York in the 1920’s and the 1950’s when the poems wererespectively published. READ MORE

  5. 4. Text, Image, and Nostalgia in Two Versions of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Rich Boy"

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Lara María Rodríguez Sieweke; [2018]
    Keywords : F. Scott Fitzgerald; “The Rich Boy”; F.R. Gruger; José Luis Ágreda; short stories; illustrations; advertisements; magazines; intermediality; word-image discussions; nostalgia;

    Abstract : Abstract This thesis attempts to contribute to both intermedial studies and F. Scott Fitzgerald scholarship by studying the text-illustration interplay in two versions of “The Rich Boy”. READ MORE