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28 juillet 2021
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Tyne Daile Sumner, « Retinas One Yard High: Textual Impressions of a Memorable Face », Literature and the Face: A Critical History, ID : 10670/1.jx4qkr
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Early in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby (1925), readers encounter the strange, disembodied gaze of the fictional oculist Doctor T.J. Eckleburg, looking out over the ‘grey land and spasms of bleak dust’ of West Egg, a town modelled on Great Neck in Long Island, New York. Peering out from an imposing billboard – the quintessential symbol of early twentieth-century material culture – Eckleburg’s eyes are ‘blue and gigantic – their retinas are one yard high.’ Fitzgerald w...