A Distant Drummer attends more to F. Scott Fitzgerald's aesthetic merits, ideas, style, techniques, context of his works and less to biographical details which, critics believe, are intricately interwoven within his works. In striving to respond to Fitzgerald's artistry away from the impulse of the author's personal experience, it is - in a very strange paradox - more attuned and, in consequence, closer to Fitzgerald, who wanted his fiction to be objectively judged and free of the stigma which besmirches his reputation. A Distant Drummer attends more to F. Scott Fitzgerald's aesthetic merits, ideas, style, techniques, context of his works and less to biographical details which, critics believe, are intricately interwoven within his works. In striving to respond to Fitzgerald's artistry away from the impulse of the author's personal experience, it is - in a very strange paradox - more attuned and, in consequence, closer to Fitzgerald, who wanted his fiction to be objectively judged and free of the stigma which besmirches his reputation. Introduction 1(10) Jamal Assadi ``This Tremendous Detail'': The Oxford Stone in the House of Gatsby 11(10) Bonnie Shannon McMullen Icons and Myths in The Great Gatsby 21(8) Nicole Guetin Translations as Instruments of Analysis: The Great Gatsby in French 29(14) Michel Viel Of Celebrity Status, Posthumous Publications, Scholar's Choice, and the American Novel: A Case Study of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Trimalchio 43(14) Somdatta Mandal The Anxiety of the Diver: F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Swimmer Motif 57(16) Horst Kruse The Frontiers that Artists Must Explore 73(12) Elisabeth Bouzonviller Vision and Loss in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night 85(22) Marie-Agnes Gay F. S. Fitzgerald's Lists as Lexical Playfields in Tender is the Night 107(10) Pascale Antolin Fitzgerald's Professional Women: Jenny Prince in `Jacob's Ladder' and Helen Avery in `Magnetism' as Antecedents of Rosemary Hoyt in Tender is the Night 117(18) Patricia Fra-Lopez Scott Fitzgerald's Current British Reputation 135(6) Andrew Hook Bibliography 141(6) List of Contributors 147