Despite the architextual misdirection of the title,
Dreiser's novel remains A Place in the Sun's most prominent hypo-text, to continue with Genette's terminology.
Indiana-born author Theodore
Dreiser took Chicago, and later New York, as they were, with the good and the bad, and recorded them in critically acclaimed realistic prose that rivaled those of Honoree de Balzac and Charles Dickens, outstanding urban interpreters of the nineteenth century.
Dreiser, and of course in writing about them there were no living
This comprises the best of Donald Pizer's essays on Theodore
Dreiser. Pizer, one of
Dreiser's principal critics over the past forty years, is especially concerned with establishing the distinctive nature and quality of
Dreiser's naturalism in many of these essays.
REMEMBER WHEN: 1960 | WORDWISE: A WHO AM I: Theodore
DreiserIn their works most explicitly concerned with economics Frank Norris and Theodore
Dreiser both address the fate of the individual in a marketplace that they construe as fundamentally natural.
Part Two looks at the vast explosion in novel-writing in the years up to the 1920s with writers such as James, Twain,
Dreiser, Wharton, as well as with 'dime novels' and immigrant novels.
I thoroughly enjoyed the Theodore
Dreiser article and have just purchased a copy of Sister Carrie to read.
American Naturalism and the Jews: Garland, Norris,
Dreiser, Wharton, and Cather, by Donald Pizer.
American Hungers is a polemic with complex insights concerning five authors who wrote about poverty (Herman Melville, Theodore
Dreiser, Edith Wharton, James Agee, and Richard Wright) and their literary contexts.
However, the stories attracted the attention of Theodore
Dreiser, then a magazine editor in New York.