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THE COST OF DESIRE.(An American Tragedy)(Critical Essay)
With its usual impassivity, the Library of America has reissued a strange and awkward book, Theodore Dreiser's nine-hundred-and-thirty-page realist epic of 1925, "An American Tragedy."As with all the Library's volumes, no celebratory essay accompanies the beautifully printed text. The novel's appearance under these auspices is, of course, an effort to consecrate it as a classic, but the attempt may have come too late. My suspicion is that Dreiser's books (with the exception of "Sister Carrie”) are now considered too long for high-school students, too earnest for college literature classes, and too odd for many common readers. Dreiser's reputation has always been ...
- Dreiser's 'An American Tragedy.' (Theodore Dreiser)
- Magazine article from: The Explicator Funk, Robert June 22, 1993 700+ words
...In chapter 46 of An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser makes a brief allusion...never reappears in An American Tragedy, Dreiser does not account for...career. WORKS CITED Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy. 1925. New York...
- Works of Theodore Dreiser: Introduction
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Dreiser, Theodore January 1, 1963 700+ words
...popular An American Tragedy (1925...experiences. Dreiser was born...writing An American Tragedy, and reflecting...appeared, Dreiser simply reiterated...such as An American Tragedy. Autobiographical...Sources In Dreiser's Work...
- Dreiser in 1925. (Notes & Comments: June 2003).
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Hart, Jeffrey June 1, 2003 700+ words
...was the date of Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy and much else...Renaissance. Dreiser merits rescue...1900) and An American Tragedy do. In a famous...was the year of Dreiser's American Tragedy. Assuming that...
- Theodore Dreiser's behemoth; Reissuing novel that once was a bestseller.(BOOKS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times March 9, 2003 700+ words
...Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy." Published...to say that Dreiser wrote "like...that "An American Tragedy" was his...reviews of "An American Tragedy," T.K...wryly, "Dreiser's ability...
- Theodore Dreiser: Beyond Naturalism.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel BRENNAN, STEPHEN C. September 22, 1998 700+ words
...Roberta Alden of An American Tragedy, Fishkin concludes that Dreiser relied too heavily...differential" (p. 17) Dreiser maintained with...doubtless right about Dreiser's inability to...do justice to An American Tragedy as a work of art...
- Dreiser and Veblen, Saboteurs of the Status Quo.
- Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel Newlin, Keith June 22, 2002 700+ words
...through examples drawn from Dreiser's novels, and her analysis...it is clear about why Dreiser celebrates the businessman. For most readers of Dreiser, the book's most valuable...to Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy. While Veblen's phrase...
- Theodore Dreiser: at the gates of the city, 1871-1907.
- Magazine article from: National Review Tuttleton, James W. April 10, 1987 700+ words
...indifferent reception, and Dreiser's nervous breakdown, culminating...The second volume will cover Dreiser's later career as the author...and (most memorably) An American Tragedy. Of course, a great deal...apprenticeship, partly because Dreiser had a compulsion to elaborate...
- The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review McCarron, Kevin January 1, 2007 700+ words
...Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser. By Jerome Loving. Berkeley...Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925); however, he is...in his appraisal of all of Dreiser's published work, which...family, Hermann Theodore Dreiser was born on 27 August 1871...
