"The Game as It Is Played"
Essays on Theodore Dreiser
300th Edition
Published on 5. November 2013
XVIII, 224 pages
978-1-4539-1173-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Game as It Is Played 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 in establishing the distinctive nature and quality of Dreiser's naturalism in many of these essays. From one of Dreiser's earliest short stories to his acknowledged masterpiece, An American Tragedy, Pizer demonstrates that in Dreiser's hands naturalism is not the blunt instrument it is usually assumed to be but rather a powerful tool for the rendering of a complex view of the human condition. In addition, the essays explore several of the more controversial areas of Dreiser scholarship, including his late conversion to communism, his anti-Semitism, and the text of Sister Carrie.
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Donald Pizer received his PhD in English from the University of California, Los Angeles. He spent his entire career at Tulane University, in New Orleans, from where he retired in 2001 as Pierce Butler Professor of English. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and has also received major research awards from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has published widely on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature, including critical studies of Hamlin Garland, Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and John Dos Passos as well as many editions of the works of these and other authors of the period.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Editorial Note and Acknowledgments
- Dreiser's Career
- 1. "True Art Speaks Plainly": Theodore Dreiser and the Late Nineteenth-Century Debate over Realism and Naturalism
- 2. "The Logic of My Life and Work": Another Look at Dreiser's July 20, 1945, Letter to William Z. Foster
- 3. Dreiser and the Jews
- Dreiser and American Naturalism
- 4. American Literary Naturalism: The Example of Dreiser
- 5. Dreiser and the Naturalistic Drama of Consciousness
- 6. American Literary Naturalism in its "Perfected" State: "An American Tragedy" and "The Age of Innocence
- 7. The Problem of American Literary Naturalism and Dreiser's Sister Carrie
- 8. Late Nineteenth-Century American Literary Naturalism: A Re-Introduction
- Dreiser's Works
- 9. Theodore Dreiser's "Nigger Jeff": The Development of an Aesthetic
- 10. Toward Sister Carrie: The Sources and Nature of Dreiser's Narrative Method
- 11. Introduction to "New Essays on Sister Carrie
- 12. An Evolutionary Reading of "Sister Carrie
- 13. The Text of "Sister Carrie
- 14. An Introduction to Jennie Gerhardt
- 15. Otto Weininger and the Sexual Dynamics of Theodore Dreiser's The "Genius"
- 16. Crime and Punishment in Dreiser's "An American Tragedy": The Legal Debate
- Index
