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Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (/ ˈ d r aɪ s ər,-z ər /; August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of ...
Theodore Dreiser was an American novelist whose work explored the social problems that grew from a rapidly industrializing nation. His best-known works include Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy.
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 17, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American journalist and novelist, who was one of the leading literary figures to employ naturalism in his writings. His intense and real-life portrayals of characters whose lives were considered amoral pitted him against the forces of censorship.
Oct 29, 2013 · Although Dreiser is criticized for his cumbersome style, his compelling characters and narratives continue to fascinate readers, and his importance to early 20th-century American literature is undeniable.
Theodore Dreiser - Naturalism, Novels, Journalism: Dreiser’s first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), is a work of pivotal importance in American literature despite its inauspicious launching. It became a beacon to subsequent American writers whose allegiance was to the realistic treatment of any and all subject matter.
Theodore Dreiser was an American author of naturalist fiction. Censorship and bans accompanied him all his life. His works were burned in Nazi Germany in 1933.
Naturalistic novels of American writer and editor Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser portray life as a struggle against ungovernable forces. Value of his portrayed characters lies in their persistence against all obstacles, not their moral code, and literary situations more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency; this ...
Writer Theodore Dreiser, late in life. A practitioner of American realism, Dreiser explored such themes as the lure of urban environments, the conflict between Old World parents and their Americanized children, and the hollowness of the American drive for material success.
Aug 27, 2019 · Theodore Dreiser, “The Village Feudists”. “He was the first American novelist to invest the big city with such a hungry, avid sense of power. No one after him has yet rendered the physical discovery of a city in such haunting detail, with so much feeling brought up from the depths of the old small-town experience. . . .
Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945) A journalist turned novelist, Dreiser was at the forefront of the battle for social fact and sexual candor in the early twentieth-century novel, treating popular sentimental and realist subjects with a refreshing lack of moralizing.
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