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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Dreiser"”.
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Injurious Distances: Mobility, Space, Realism
… that for Mark Twain, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser, physical motion and the continual remaking of the built environment enabled new kinds of subjectivity. Specifically, I assert texts such as Mark Twain’s early narratives, Norris’s The Octopus, and Dreiser’s An American Tragedy attempted to …
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The Mirrors of Naturalism: Stephen Crane's Pragmatic Determinism
… interpretations of Crane in addition to Theodore Dreiser in ways that highlight how the deterministic yet pluralistic character of naturalism serves as a bridge between the realist and modernist styles.
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Railspace: A Geocritical Study of the Railroad through American Literature and Culture
… Three novels—<em>Sister Carrie </em>by Theodore Dreiser, <em>Double Indemnity</em> by James M. Cain, and <em>Strangers on a Train </em>by Patricia Highsmith—and their filmic adaptations work together to form the passenger car as a contested railspace of fear and unease. The mobile Hell on Wheels …
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"Plot In ""studs Lonigan"": The Failure Of Manhood, The Triumph Of Artistry (farrell, Chicago, Illinois)"
… Crane, Frank Norris, and especially Theodore Dreiser. The Studs Lonigan trilogy, Farrell's major work, is often described as a naturalistic work providing a sociological examination of life in an Irish-Catholic neighborhood in Chicago during the nineteen teens, twenties, and early thirties. …
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The Outward Turn: Personality, Blankness, and Allure in American Modernism
… such writers as Henry James, Theodore Dreiser, Gertrude Stein, Nathanael West, and Langston Hughes invented ways of representing individuals not by stable inner qualities but by their fascinating--and, often, gendered and racialized--blankness. For these writers, this sense of …
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The Soviet pilgrimage : American writers in Russia, 1922-1947.
… Mike Gold, Elmer Rice, Lillian Hellman, Theodore Dreiser, Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Edmund Wilson, Erskine Caldwell, Waldo Frank, Josephine Herbst, Abraham Cahan, and many others. This study examines the works of four of these travelers—Claude McKay, E.E. Cummings, Lillian Hellman, and John …
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Thrillology: Affective Intensities and the Everyday-Spectacular in American Literature and Culture
… Naturalist novels by Norris, Sinclair, and Dreiser expose the pursuit of material success as an intoxicating affect that drives central figures, regardless of the attainment, and inevitable loss, of wealth. In contrast, Ishmael Reed’s MumboJumbo presents a very different frisson of social …
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Midwestern Americanism: Fiction of the 'Middle Border,' 1900-1930
… a comparison with a fellow Hoosier, Theodore Dreiser, considers the role of the Midwest in the romance versus realism debate. By tracing how Tarkington’s representation of his home state evolved—he won the Pulitzer prize in 1919 and 1922—the chapter demonstrates how he attempted to present the …
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Literary naturalism 1865-1940: its history, influences and legacy
… aesthetics found in the works of Norris and Dreiser and presents case studies of Sister Carrie and The Octopus. This chapter argues that The Octopus, in particular, should be read as a novel of aesthetics, and is Norris’s most cogent statement of his theoretical stance on literature and …
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Motorcars and magic highways: the automobile and communication in twentieth-century American literature and film
… of Automobility in Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, and Sinclair Lewis,” establishes the transformative potential that early users saw in the automobile. I argue that Wharton’s A Motor-Flight Through France (1908), for instance, offers the motorcar as a means of helping the leisure traveler …
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A Pilgrim, An Outlaw: Features of Dramatic Adaptation and Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie
… in a practical context. My rendering of Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie is an exploration of fundamental elements that require consideration when adapting for the stage. My approach to the characters’ inarticulateness reveals an inherent theatricality in the novel, which both respects Dreiser’s …
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The Effect of Mentorship: A Test of Strength and Survival in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie & Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth
… House of Mirth, and Carrie Meeber of Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie. Both Lily and Carrie experience life altering events that force them into unfamiliar roles amidst the upper-class New York Society of the early 19th Century. Each woman’s circumstances foster a growing level of independence, …