Engaging Dreiser

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Published by 1971, 2010

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Edited by Klaus H. Schmidt. This volume contains 14 essays, four shorter articles and three reviews, previously published between 1971 and 2006. Topics include Theodore Dreiser's heritage and biography, literary themes and narrative patterns, and Dreiser's place in literary history and scholarship. - Contents: Engaging Dreiser: A Selected Bibliography, 1967-2007. -- Part I: Theodore Dreiser's Family Background: Studies in Biography and Autobiographical Self-Discovery: 1. Dreiser on the European Continent. Part One: Theodore Dreiser, the German Dreisers, and Germany. - 2. Personal, Ethnic, and National Identity: Theodore Dreiser's Difficult Heritage. -- Part II: Dreiser Abroad: Analyzing Literary Themes, Narrative Structures, and Cultural Imagology: 3. Dreiser's English Virgil. - 4. Central Europe in Travelogues by Theodore Dreiser: Images of Berlin and Vienna. - 5. Theodore Dreiser's European Encounters: The Case of Oxford. - 6. Late Educations: Henry Adams and Theodore Dreiser Look at Russia. - 7. The Shock of the Ancestral Quest: Theodore Dreiser's "A Traveler at Forty" and Cynthia Ozick's "The Messiah of Stockholm". - 8. Dreiser's Diaristic Mode. -- Part III: Dreiser in Literary Criticism: Review Articles and Entries in Specialized Encyclopedias: 9. Review of "Identität und Rolle bei Theodore Dreiser" (1991). - 10. "American Diaries". - 11. "Dreiser's Russian Diary". - 12. Richards, (Franklin Thomas) Grant. - 13. "A Traveler at Forty". - 14. Review of "Schwester Carrie" (2004). - 15. Review of "Pleasing to the »I«" (2006). -- Part IV: Dreiser's Writings in Flux: Studies in the History of the Book, Literary Translation, Intertextuality, and Scholarly Editing: 16. Dreiser on the European Continent. Part Two: The Reception of Dreiser in Western Europe. - 17. Same or Other: Reading the German-Language Translation of "Sister Carrie". - 18. The Thousand and Second Nights in 19th-century American Writing: Echoes in the Works of Irving, Poe, Twain, and Dreiser. - 19. From Travel Guide to Autobiography: Recovering the Original of "A Traveler at Forty". - 20. Textual Commentary: Editorial Principles. - 21. Historical Commentary: The Composition and Publication of "A Traveler at Forty". - XIV,311 Seiten, gebunden (American Studies - A Monograph Series; Vol. 192/Universitätsverlag Winter 2010). Statt EUR 46,00. Gewicht: 476 g - Gebunden/Gebundene Ausgabe.…

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Title
Engaging Dreiser
Author
Bardeleben, Renate von
Publisher
1971
Publication year
2010
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Hardcover
Language
English
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