The Brokenness of Caesar's Things: On the Unfinished Religious Novel by Zelda Fitzgerald

Caesar's Things is a semi-autobiographical novel combining modernist literary experimentation with narrative structures derived from the Bible. This unfinished work is seldom analyzed by literary scholars, in part because Fitzgerald's Christian conversion in the 1930s coincided with a ment...

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Главный автор: Kim, Sharon (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Johns Hopkins University Press [2019]
В: Christianity & literature
Год: 2019, Том: 68, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 233-251
Индексация IxTheo:CD Христианство и культура
KAJ Новейшее время
Другие ключевые слова:B Caesar's Things
B Christian fiction
B religious fiction
B Zelda Fitzgerald
B Modernism
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Итог:Caesar's Things is a semi-autobiographical novel combining modernist literary experimentation with narrative structures derived from the Bible. This unfinished work is seldom analyzed by literary scholars, in part because Fitzgerald's Christian conversion in the 1930s coincided with a mental breakdown, which made her faith and writing both suspect. Criticized as "incoherent," the novel nonetheless becomes legible when Fitzgerald's religion is disentangled from madness and its contributions examined. The novel confesses the spiritual impoverishment of the Jazz Age protagonist, then seeks her redemption, healing the divide between the self and her soul, between the material world and the kingdom of God.
ISSN:2056-5666
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0148333118757552