Abstract
The present article attempts to contribute to both Fitzgerald scholarship and nostalgia studies by examining how text, illustration, and advertisement enter into dialogue in the original magazine format of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “The Rich Boy”. As research is still scarce on Fitzgerald’s stories as they were first published, this field may hold new, potential research paths for this canonical author, a few of which I endeavor to explore here. This paper suggests that this 1926 magazine version offers a unique nostalgic experience that differs from the reading of Fitzgerald’s text in an image-free anthology. It argues that, with some exceptions, these media generally interact in a cohesive way that echoes or reinforces a nostalgic mood. Niklas Salmose’s typology of nostalgic strategies will be used to draw out the nostalgia in these media, and an intermedial approach will be employed to investigate how they engage in nostalgic dialogue.
Highlights
Before “The Rich Boy” was selected by F
My reading, which focuses on how this interaction transmits the nostalgic aspects of the story, aims to contribute to nostalgia studies on the notably nostalgic Fitzgerald: By exploring Niklas Salmose’s classification of strategies that may evoke nostalgia in the reader, I attempt to show how the different media—written narrative, illustration, and advertisement—generally collaborate to express a nostalgic narrative mood that is already thematically and stylistically present in the text
This investigation into text-image relations invites the employment of an intermedial approach, that is, an approach that pays close attention to these media interactions, which, create a media product and reader experience that differ from what we may encounter in a recent image-free anthology
Summary
Before “The Rich Boy” was selected by F. My reading, which focuses on how this interaction transmits the nostalgic aspects of the story, aims to contribute to nostalgia studies on the notably nostalgic Fitzgerald: By exploring Niklas Salmose’s classification of strategies that may evoke nostalgia in the reader, I attempt to show how the different media—written narrative, illustration, and advertisement—generally collaborate to express a nostalgic narrative mood that is already thematically and stylistically present in the text This investigation into text-image relations invites the employment of an intermedial approach, that is, an approach that pays close attention to these media interactions, which, create a media product and reader experience that differ from what we may encounter in a recent image-free anthology. Through my analysis of the text-image relations in a text that is both art about nostalgia and nostalgic art, I have found this method to fit in—rather effortlessly—with a nostalgic reading of this text
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