"The Game as It Is Played": Essays on Theodore Dreiser

by Donald Pizer

Overview

The Game as It Is Played comprises the best of Donald Pizer's essays on Theodore Dreiser. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433117800
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	09/30/2013
Series:	Modern American Literature: New Approaches , #66
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Donald Pizer received his PhD in English from the University of California, Los Angeles. He spent his entire career at Tulane University, in New Orleans, from where he retired in 2001 as Pierce Butler Professor of English. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and has also received major research awards from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has published widely on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature, including critical studies of Hamlin Garland, Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and John Dos Passos as well as many editions of the works of these and other authors of the period.

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