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The realism of Stephen Crane
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1936. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Themes in the poetry of Stephen Crane.
Stephen Crane discusses three major themes in his poetry. He experimented with various techniques and literary philosophies, including imagism, symbolism, naturalism and realism. The only consistent factor in his own expressed philosophy was a desire to adhere to the truth. His poetry is free …
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Stephen Crane, Journalist: A Prismatic Career in the Gilded Age
The object of this study has been to discover Crane's indebtedness to his newspaper apprenticeship. The investigation has been concerned with all phases of Crane's life and art, but special emphasis has been placed on his newspaper experience.
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Stephen Crane and the Cinematic Spectacle of the New York Slums
<p>This work attempts to examine Stephen Crane's novella, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (Story of New York) as well as a sampling of his New York slum fiction known as his Bowery Tales and Midnight Sketches in light of the burgeoning technological revolution of cinema as popular art form. By my …
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The metamorphosis of the drunkard in selected fiction of Stephen Crane
Although Stephen Crane developed out of an ancestral and moral chemistry that might have produced a minister rather than a writer, he abandoned the letter, though not the spirit, of his parents' Methodism. Crane's studies of society, Maggie and George's Mother, are works of a writer who expresses a …
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Two Songs from "War is Kind" for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra
… were composed to text by poet and author Stephen Crane from his set of poems entitled "War is Kind". Full instrumentation includes flute 1 and 2; oboe 1 and 2; B-flat clarinet 1 and 2; bassoon; horn in F 1, 2, 3, and 4' mezzo-soprano; violin 1 and 2; viola; cello; and double bass. The …
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Slumming and the 19th century geographical imagination
… canonical novelists like William Dean Howells, Stephen Crane and Frank Norris, reinforced middle-class and bourgeois conceptions of urban social space. The degrees to which existing social space was maintained, and the processes by which it was maintained, depended on the particular geographical …
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A reassessment of the influence of Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein upon Ernest Hemingway
… Anderson and Stein, such as Ring Lardner and Stephen Crane. Because the critical tradition most often identifies "repetition" and "colloquialisms" as bases for attributing influence to Anderson and Stein, I discuss those characteristics individually, concluding that Hemingway's debt to Stein's …
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"Plot In ""studs Lonigan"": The Failure Of Manhood, The Triumph Of Artistry (farrell, Chicago, Illinois)"
… following in the naturalistic tradition of Stephen 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 …
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MASS FOR A TIME OF WAR: A REQUIEM HONORING THE VICTIMS OF THE IRAQI CONFLICT
… Becomes Electra, The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, Dexter Filkin's The Forever War, texts in both the Ancient Greek and English translation of Homer's Iliad, Erich Maria Remarcque's All Quiet on the Western Front, several texts from The New York Times Magazine and New Yorker Magazine …
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The Mirrors of Naturalism: Stephen Crane's Pragmatic Determinism
… dependent upon, one another. On the one hand, Stephen Crane’s fiction reveals determinism’s heavy weight upon the naturalist genre (the sense that humans cannot affect their worlds), yet unlike Frank Norris or Jack London, for instance, Crane innovatively employs pragmatic elements that work …
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A mirror for the republic : mimesis, racial justice, and American literary realism.
… misconceptions. Twain, Chesnutt, Dunbar, and Crane, the writers in this study, used recognizable patterns and historical events that their audience would recognize only to upturn those patterns at emotionally key moments. By creating an emotional connection with the character writers could …
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Writing insurrection: U.S. literature and the politics of Latin American intervention, 1898 to 2010
… to Spanish tyranny. Richard Harding Davis and Stephen Crane emerge as ambassadors of revolution and translators of Latin American difference. Their popular journalism and fictional texts establish everyday Americans as guardians of Latin American freedom and plenitude. The three chapters that …
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Writing American Soldiers: Nineteenth-Century Varieties of Military Experience
… have found instead novelists such as Stephen Crane and William Faulkner, artists of tremendous ability to be sure, but also men born well after the combat they wrote about. Such authors are the amanuenses of war writing, as were James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, and Herman …