Download or read book Imagery Symbolism and Rhetorical Devices in Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser written by and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, course: Proseminar, language: English, abstract: Theodore Dreiser published his first novel, Sister Carrie, in 1900. His most famous work, An American Tragedy, was printed in 1925. Reading criticism on Theodore Dreiser’s novels, one can get the impression that Dreiser’s style is atrocious and chaotic. “It is questionable whether he ever wrote a single sentence capable of giving pleasure to itself” (qtd. in Allen 81). Stoll quotes critics that maintain that Theodore Dreiser was never able to obtain a technique of narrative writing. They argue that his writings are poor or that he writes without structure and that his style influences his novels’ quality in a bad way (cf. Stoll 4-12). “Dreiser’s writing inevitably suffered from his poor taste, inadequate attention to the niceties of diction and an ear insufficiently attuned to style and tone” (qtd. in Flanagan 289). However, these critics are not completely true. The following paper will show that Dreiser’s writing is not entirely bad and that his diction was not completely arbitrary. Therefore, the novels Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy will be analyzed with respect to imagery, symbolism, and some rhetorical devices.
Download or read book Sister Carrie written by Theodore Dreiser and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Sister Carrie" by Theodore Dreiser. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Theodore Dreiser s An American Tragedy written by Harold Bloom and published by Chelsea House Publications. This book was released on 1988 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of eight critical essays on Dreiser's novel, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.
Download or read book Sister Carrie written by Theodore Dreiser and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time 'American writing, before and after Dreiser's time, differed almost as much as biology before and after Darwin,' said H. L. Mencken. Sister Carrie, Dreiser's great first novel, transformed the conventional 'fallen woman' story into a bold and truly innovative piece of fiction when it appeared in 1900. Naïve young Caroline Meeber, a small-town girl seduced by the lure of the modern city, becomes the mistress of a traveling salesman and then of a saloon manager, who elopes with her to New York. Both its subject matter and Dreiser's unsparing, nonjudgmental approach made Sister Carrie a controversial book in its time, and the work retains the power to shock readers today. 'Sister Carrie came to housebound and airless America like a great free Western wind, and to our stuffy domesticity gave us the first fresh air since Mark Twain and Whitman,' noted Sinclair Lewis. 'Dreiser enlarged, willy-nilly, by a kind of historical accident if you will, the range of American literature,' observed Robert Penn Warren. '[Sister Carrie] is a vivid and absorbing work of art.'
Download or read book Symbolic Imagery in Theodore Dreiser s An American Tragedy written by Erwin Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser s Sociological Tragedy written by David E. E. Sloane and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900) broke new literary ground in a number of ways. Its graphic documentary style, urban setting, and concern with economic and sociological issues set it apart from popular fiction of the period. In his characteristically detailed and awkwardly methodical style, Dreiser crafted characters and situations that dramatize the forces of economic necessity, social censure, and urban anonymity. Set in turn-of-the-century Chicago and New York, the novel explores the life of Carrie Meeber, a poor rural woman whose naivete and poverty make her an ideal target for the dangers of urban life. Dreiser depicts the dilemma created by Carrie's desire to succeed and find security in a morally and financially compromised society that lures her with its glitter." "David E. E. Sloane's study proposes that Dreiser's sociological tragedy uses the details of the cityscape and the lives of its urban characters to build a drama in which none of the characters are able to achieve real happiness. Sloane demonstrates how Dreiser used themes already of concern to his readers but managed them in ways that challenged the moral and sexual assumptions of the day. Sloane's thesis is that the novel addresses economic inequality by showing that even in the poor and inarticulate like Carrie Meeber there are physical and spiritual drives that need expression but that are repressed by social mores. The study offers a detailed examination of how Dreiser's stylistic and structural choices are perfectly suited to his material, and shows how the novel forged the way for other socially conscious works in the twentieth-century."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Theodore Dreiser s Sister Carrie written by Charlotte A. Alexander and published by Arco. This book was released on 1965 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Representation of the City in Theodore Dreiser s Sister Carrie written by Alexander Zerfas and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Erfurt, course: The City in American Literature (Reading Course), language: English, abstract: In this paper I intend to elaborate on the question of how the city is depicted in Theodore Dreiser’s "Sister Carrie" including the characteristics Dreiser allocates to the city of Chicago and New York and the way of how the city influences Carrie’s personality. All propositions provided will be based on my own perceptions and interpretations of different quotations from the text. A brief conclusion will sum up the results of this paper.
Download or read book Selected Works of Theodore Dreiser written by Theodore Dreiser and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sister Carrie written by Theodore Dreiser and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later as a famous actress.
Download or read book The Symbolic Drawings of Hubert Davis for an American Tragedy written by Theodore Dreiser and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sister Carrie written by Richard Daniel Lehan and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gale Study Guides to Great Literature is a unique reference line composed of three series: "Literary Masters, Literary Masterpieces and "Literary Topics. Convenient, comprehensive and targeted toward current coursework, these guides place authors, titles and topics into context for high school and college students as well as general researchers. Each "Literary Masters volume introduces a significant author, covering basic biographical information. The related "Literary Masterpieces volume explores a major title from this author's works in detail. Finally, the "Literary Topics volume places the author and work within a relevant literary movement or genre.
Download or read book Theodore Dreiser s Use of Imagery in Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt written by Lynn C. Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An American Tragedy written by Theodore Dreiser and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1978 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gospel of Wealth in the American Novel Routledge Revivals written by Arun Mukherjee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business and the businessman have had a fundamental place in American society since the inception of the nation. This tenet, the ‘gospel of wealth’, is a central concern in the novels of Theodore Dreiser and his contemporaries. First published in 1987, this study sets this group of writers in their historical context and shows how they elaborated the idea of wealth as an object of quasi-religious quest. What had previously been associated with disease and darkness, avarice and dishonour, now came to emblematise the virtues of thrift, prudence and diligence. The underlying argument is that the dominant group of a society legitimises its power through the appropriation of the vocabulary of religion, and the American business leaders were successful in doing this both in their own practice and through the more insidious medium of art. A detailed analysis, this reissue will be of particular value to students of American literature with an interest in the relationship between linguistic symbols and social order, and historical attitudes towards wealth in literature.
Download or read book Sister Carrie 1900 Is a Novel by Theodore Dreiser World s Classics written by Theodore Dreiser and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin home, 18-year-old Caroline moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later as a famous actress. It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels.
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