| Description |
xvii, 269 pages ; 24cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index. |
| Contents |
Gender studies: women and Dreiser: Dreiser and the discourse of gender / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- Sexualizing the female body: Dreiser, feminism, and Foucault / Irene Gammel -- Recontextualizing Dreiser: gender, class, and sexuality in Jennie Gerhardt / Nancy Warner Barrineau -- Gender studies: men and Dreiser: The secrets of fraternity: men and friendship in Sister Carrie / Scott Zaluda -- Psychonanlysis and Dreiser: "That oldest boy don't wanta be here": fathers and sons and the dynamics of shame in Theodore Dreiser's novels / Miriam Gogol -- Lacanian equivocation in Sister Carrie, The genius, and An American tragedy / Leonard Cassuto -- Philosophy: On language and the quest for self-fulfillment: a Heideggerian perspective on Dreiser's Sister Carrie / Paul A. Orlov -- Film studies: Squandered possibilities: the film versions of Dreiser's novels / Lawrence E. Hussman -- Popular literature: Carrie's library: reading the boundaries between popular and serious fiction / M. H. Dunlop -- New historicism: Sister Carrie's absent causes / James Livingston. |
| Subject |
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Naturalism in literature.
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Naturalism in literature. |
| Added Author |
Gogol, Miriam, 1949-
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| ISBN |
0814730744 paperback alkaline paper |
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0814730736 cloth alkaline paper |
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