Ronald L Berman

Modernity and Progress: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Orwell

Breaks new critical ground by exploring philosophical and aesthetic issues germane to the writings of three major modern literary figures.In the 1920s and 30s, understandings of time, place, and civilization were subjected to a barrage of new conceptions. Ronald Berman probes the work of three write...

Fitzgerald-Wilson-Hemingway: Language and Experience

In this study, Ronald Berman examines the work of the critic/novelist Edmund Wilson and the art of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as they wrestled with the problems of language, experience, perception and reality in the "age of jazz." By focusing specifically on aesthetics - the ways these...

Solzhenitsyn at Harvard: The Address, Twelve Early Responses, and Six Later Reflections (Ethics and Public Policy Reprints)

When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn gave the commencement address at Harvard University in 1978, many Americans expected to hear their country praised by this celebrated refugee from a totalitarian state. Instead they heard some sharply critical views of their legal system, their press, their popular cultur...

The Great Gatsby and Fitzgerald's World of Ideas

Berman examines the intellectual and cultural milieu in which The Great Gatsby was created--and challenges accepted interpretations of Fitzgerald's greatest novel."The Great Gatsby" and Fitzgerald's World of Ideas focuses on F. Scott Fitzgerald and the prevailing ideas and values that permeated Amer...

Translating Modernism: Fitzgerald and Hemingway

In Translating Modernism Ronald Berman continues his career-long study of the ways that intellectual and philosophical ideas informed and transformed the work of America’s major modernist writers.Here Berman shows how Fitzgerald and Hemingway wrestled with very specific intellectual, artistic, and p...

Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and the Twenties

A noted scholar offers fresh ways of looking at two legendary American authors.Both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway came into their own in the 1920s and did some of their best writing during that decade. In a series of interrelated essays, Ronald Berman considers an array of novels and shor...

Great Gatsby and Modern Times

Using editorials, columns, advertisements, silent film, architecture, and photography, Berman develops the theme of modern consciousness.

Public Policy and the Aesthetic Interest: Critical Essays on Defining Cultural and Educational Relations

The Great Gatsby and Modern Times

Public Policy and the Aesthetic Interest: Critical Essays on Defining Cultural and Educational Relations

The Great Gatsby and Modern Times

The Signet Classic Book of Restoration Drama

A Reader's Guide to Shakespeare's Plays: A Discursive Bibliography

Advertising and Social Change

Advertising and Social Change