Poetics of Space in a Modernist City in Novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald: New York in "This Side of Paradise", "The Beautiful and Damned", "The Great Gatsby"

Student: Iushina Margarita

Supervisor: Elena Ostrovskaya

Educational Programme: Philology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2018

The subject of this research is the city space in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novels: “This Side of Paradise”, “The Beautiful and Damned”, “The Great Gatsby”. The choice of these particular novels is explained by the fact that one can examine the development of the way of narrative in description of New York space. The main purpose of this study is to define the repetitive patterns in the novels, the connection between the narration and space, modernist techniques which have been used by the author. The key method of the study is the analysis and interpretation of the excerpts where space is described, based on the existing theoretical works dedicated to Fitzgerald’s novels and space.

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