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UNINA9910453860803321 |
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Autore |
Pizer Donald |
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Titolo |
The novels of Theodore Dreiser [[electronic resource] ] : a critical study / / by Donald Pizer |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1976 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (395 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface; Contents; Introduction: A Summer at Maumee; PART ONE; Sister Carrie; Jennie Gerhardt; PART TWO; The ""Genius""; The Cowperwood Trilogy; The Financier; The Titan; PART THREE; An American Tragedy; PART FOUR; The Years Between; The Bulwark; The Stoic; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Y |
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Relying heavily on the manuscripts and letters in the Dreiser Collection of the University of Pennsylvania Library, Professor Pizer seeks to establish the facts of the sources and composition of each of Dreiser's eight novels and to study the themes and form of the completed works. In this study he relates what can be discovered about the factual reality of a novel to its imaginative reality. His interpretation of the novels avoids the suggestion that there is a single overriding theme or direction in Dreiser's work and emphasizes that Dreiser deserves examination primarily on the basis of the |
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