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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Sister Carrie"”.
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A Pilgrim, An Outlaw: Features of Dramatic Adaptation and Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie
… 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 themes and …
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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
… Bart of Edith Wharton’s The 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 …
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Railspace: A Geocritical Study of the Railroad through American Literature and Culture
… produces perpetual spectacle. 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 …
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Confronting modernity: urbanization and American fiction, 1880-1930
… on the Verge," I examine Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, which articulate a gendered modernity, offering women access to the public sphere yet severely restricting female agency. Chapter four, "Metropolitan Modernity," examines John Dos Passos's …
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The Dialectics of Form: Reification and Genre in Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
… and labor. Chapter one on Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie foregrounds memory as a mediatory code for analyzing how reification relates to capitalism’s mechanization of labor and its effects on new white feminine and masculine disembodied consumer subjects. Chapter four on W.E.B. Du Bois’s …
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Criticism of material success in the American novel
… that results even if success is gained. Sister Carrie rocks in her chair, unsatisfied by weatlh. Babbitt dreams of a fairy girl, and Tommy Wilhelm weeps before a dead body as if it were his own.</p><p>The final category includes only The Great Gatsby and is concerned with the victims of …
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Literary naturalism 1865-1940: its history, influences and legacy
… 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 criticism. Chapter 6 explores the growth …