Engaging Dreiser
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Engaging Dreiser
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Author : Renate von Bardeleben
language : en
Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter
Release Date : 2010
Engaging Dreiser written by Renate von Bardeleben and has been published by Universitatsverlag Winter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
Long since recognized as a principal exponent of American Naturalism and a central figure of U.S. cultural life, Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) has been the focus of renewed academic interest in the past three decades. This renaissance in Dreiser Studies - ushered in by Richard Lingeman's two-volume biography Theodore Dreiser: 'At the Gates of the City', 1871-1907 & 'An American Journey', 1908-1945 (1986/90) and enhanced by the painstaking labors of those engaged in The Dreiser Edition - has led to an impressive array of new and exciting work. Meant to contribute to the reevaluation of a classic of American literary modernism, the present volume contains the collected essays of one of the leading international Dreiser scholars. Publishing on Dreiser's life and letters since 1967, and serving on the advisory and editorial boards of the International Theodore Dreiser Society, the journals 'Dreiser Studies' and 'Studies in American Naturalism', and the University of Illinois Dreiser Edition, Renate von Bardeleben has played a major role in correcting the negative image early biographers such as Swanberg (1965) had presented of Dreiser's personality. In addition to shedding light on neglected aspects of the latter's eventful biography and multifaceted writings, the essays included in this collection reveal 'A Traveler at Forty' (1913) to be a key text in Dreiser's far-reaching oeuvre. Von Bardeleben's meticulous analysis of the history and multiple pre- and unpublished versions of this travel memoir eventually resulted in the first unabridged edition of 'A Traveler' (Dreiser Edition, 2005).
Creating Realities
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Author : Erhan Simsek
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2019-02-20
Creating Realities written by Erhan Simsek and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Business is woven into the very fabric of American life, yet rarely surfaces in the nation's literary history. Even in novels about business, it proves an elusive motif that fails to mirror actual business organizations. This book argues that literary representations of business remain ineffable because business serves potential aesthetic functions, subtly yet meaningfully impacting readers. Exploring the complex representation of business in realist, naturalist and modernist works, Erhan Simsek reveals these functions by analyzing how the motif intertwines with social developments, literary movements and author biographies. He thus illuminates the motif itself while highlighting the utility of a focus on the changing functions of literature.
The Oxford Handbook Of American Literary Realism
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Author : Keith Newlin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
The Oxford Handbook Of American Literary Realism written by Keith Newlin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism offers fresh interpretations of the artistic and political challenges of representing life accurately. It is the first book to treat the subject topically and thematically, in wide scope, with essays that draw upon recent scholarship in literary and cultural studies to offer an authoritative and in-depth reassessment of major and minor figures and the contexts that shaped their work.
Handbook Of The American Novel Of The Nineteenth Century
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Author : Christine Gerhardt
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2018-06-11
Handbook Of The American Novel Of The Nineteenth Century written by Christine Gerhardt and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
This handbook offers students and researchers a compact introduction to the nineteenth-century American novel in the light of current debates, theoretical concepts, and critical methodologies. The volume turns to the nineteenth century as a formative era in American literary history, a time that saw both the rise of the novel as a genre, and the emergence of an independent, confident American culture. A broad range of concise essays by European and American scholars demonstrates how some of America‘s most well-known and influential novels responded to and participated in the radical transformations that characterized American culture between the early republic and the age of imperial expansion. Part I consists of 7 systematic essays on key historical and critical frameworks ― including debates aboutrace and citizenship, transnationalism, environmentalism and print culture, as well as sentimentalism, romance and the gothic, realism and naturalism. Part II provides 22 essays on individual novels, each combining an introduction to relevant cultural contexts with a fresh close reading and the discussion of critical perspectives shaped by literary and cultural theory.
Dreiser S Jennie Gerhardt
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Author : James L. W. West, III
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2014-09-30
Dreiser S Jennie Gerhardt written by James L. W. West, III and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
In 1992 the University of Pennsylvania Press published a new edition of Theodore Dreiser's second novel, Jennie Gerhardt. The original published text was altered significantly from the author's intentions: its sexual energy was short-circuited, its criticisms of organized religion were blunted, its language was smoothed and sentimentalized, and, most important, Jennie Gerhardt was reduced to a less thoughtful, less womanly character. The restored edition brings back the sexual charge, reinstates the social and religious criticism, and makes the language Dreiser's again. This volume brings together 19 fresh readings, together with an introduction, of the Pennsylvania edition by three generations of Dreiser critics. The volume includes general assessments, analysis of main characters, treatments of the autobiographical roots of the narrative, views of various traditions (realistic, sentimental, ethnic) on which Dreiser drew, and investigations of historical contexts that inform his story.
Theodore Dreiser Revisited
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Author : Philip L. Gerber
language : en
Publisher: Twayne Publishers
Release Date : 1992
Theodore Dreiser Revisited written by Philip L. Gerber and has been published by Twayne Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Fiction categories.
"In his life and in his work Theodore Dreiser was nothing if not genuinely American. True to the American dream, he overcame a childhood characterized largely by its impoverishment - material, social, educational, and emotional - to attain a large measure of success. The territory of his novels is often the territory of his childhood: life unadorned in the great industrial cities of early modern America." "In Theodore Dreiser Revisited, Philip Gerber argues that Dreiser's life "is woven ... inextricably into his novels." Like Dreiser, many of his characters struggle to escape their meager, often shabby existences, but generally with much less success than their creator. Dreiser identified with the ordinary man and woman of the early twentieth century. He depicted their position as the tiniest of cogs in the colossal American industrial machine with unflinching realism, making him a herald of literary naturalism." "In this revised and expanded edition of his earlier effort, Gerber places Dreiser at the very brink of the naturalist tradition. He traces the influence of its progenitor, Emile Zola, on the short-lived American writers Stephen Crane and Frank Norris, and shows Dreiser to be the only American writer of note to pursue the naturalist course after Crane's and Norris's deaths. In setting this course Dreiser would ultimately secure a lasting place for himself in the canon of American literature. But in his own day, especially early in his career, the world view he expressed in his books led to controversy and censorship." "Dreiser saw the human condition as a lonely and fragile one in which men and women are easily overwhelmed by the forces that surround them: the destructive effects of capitalism, greed, materialism, and lust on the individual are all laid bare in his novels. The frankness with which he conveyed this idea disturbed his early readers and led to the condemnation of his first and now highly regarded novel, Sister Carrie, published in 1900. It was not until 1925, with the publication of Dreiser's masterpiece, An American Tragedy, that his contemporaries seemed ready to reward him with resounding praise." "Since Dreiser's death in 1945, and particularly in the 25 years since Twayne's first edition of Theodore Dreiser was published, criticism of his novels has burgeoned. Gerber has added several chapters to this new edition that assess the evolution of Dreiser scholarship. Despite the abundance of biographical, textual, and bibliographic material now available, Gerber expects promising research to continue in several areas now just beginning to be explored: Dreiser's portrayals of women, among the first in American fiction to allow female characters a sexual life, self-interest, and ambition without dismissing them as immoral; the artistry of his writing style, long considered nonexistent; and the psychoanalytic implications of his work. Meanwhile, Dreiser's keen observation of the American experience, begun with the publication of Sister Carrie at the opening of the twentieth century, remains relevant to the casual reader and the scholar alike."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
New Voices In American Studies
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Author : Ray Broadus Browne
language : en
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Release Date : 1966
New Voices In American Studies written by Ray Broadus Browne and has been published by Purdue University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of essays grew out of the first Mid-America Conference on Literature, History, Popular Culture, and Folklore held at Purdue University in 1965. The purpose of this book is to show that these disciplines are interrelated and necessary to one another. The first section, "Literature," contains an introduction by Hayman and papers by Leo Stoller, Louis Filler, David Sanders, Edwin H. Cady, and Russel B. Nye. Winkelman introduces the second section, "Popular Culture, Folklore, and Ethnomusicology," which contains articles by Browne, Tristram P. Coffin, Américo Paredes, Bruno Nettl, C. E. Nelson, and Winkelman.
Critical Essays On Theodore Dreiser
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Author : Donald Pizer
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Release Date : 1981
Critical Essays On Theodore Dreiser written by Donald Pizer and has been published by Macmillan Reference USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Literary Criticism categories.
Brings together reviews and essays on Dreiser by such writers as Sherwood Anderson, Robert Penn Warren, Ellen Moers, F.O. Matthiesson, Charles Walcutt and Richard Lehan. Also includes criticism of individual works--"Sister Carrie," "Jennie Gerhardt," "The Financier," "The Titan," "The Genius," "An American Tragedy" and "The Bulwark".
Dreiser Studies
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
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Dreiser And His Fiction
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Author : Lawrence E. Hussman
language : en
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 1983
Dreiser And His Fiction written by Lawrence E. Hussman and has been published by Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Discussing Dreiser's work from Sister Carrie to The Stoic, Lawrence E. Hussman, Jr. contends that the novelist was not necessarily the dour scientific determinist that the critics leas us to believe he was. He argues that Dreiser's fiction was an extension of Dreiser's own personal conflicts, the culmination of which resulted in an ethic of love and service.