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"The Game as It Is Played": Essays on Theodore Dreiser
Contributor(s): Hakutani, Yoshinobu (Other), Pizer, Donald (Author)

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 ISBN: 1433117800     ISBN-13: 9781433117800
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
OUR PRICE: $109.83  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2013
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - General
- Literary Collections | Lgbt
Dewey: 813.52
LCCN: 2013020000
Series: Modern American Literature: New Approaches
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" L (1.00 lbs) 224 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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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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