Word: dreiser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Board of Review placed A Streetcar Named Desire sixth. Its first choice: A Place in the Sun, Paramount's cinematic version of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy...
...Edith Wharton and her skilled and snobbish novels about rich New Yorkers. "She was always ready with cold stares," complains Brooks, "for those who encroached in any way on the small caste-prerogatives that she valued so much . . ." He turns with a warmer eye to the lumbering Hoosier, Theodore Dreiser, with his industrial America, his farm girls looking for jobs and fun in the big city, his drummers spreading the gospel of the fast buck. For all his muddled clumsiness, Dreiser was the spiritual father of almost every important U.S. writer since. He persuaded a generation of them that...
...immortality through "a perfect phrase"; Gertrude Stein, who "looked and walked like a corpulent monk" and ended by writing baby talk. But with the big fish, Brooks stumbles almost as badly as he did with Hawthorne and Melville in earlier volumes. Stephen Crane's stories and Dreiser's novels ask for far more rigorous analysis than Brooks pauses to give them...
...clear. Anyone looking for profound criticism-of say, The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, Leaves of Grass, Sister Carrie-will not find it here. Nor is it impressive as intellectual history. Brooks croons over Emerson for pages, but is singularly vague in defining his philosophy of transcendentalism. He refers to Dreiser's concern over the relation between morals and success, but does not say what that relation was. Nowhere does he approach the lucidity and incisiveness of Vernon Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought...
...Place in the Sun. Director George Stevens' adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy; with Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Taylor (TIME, Sept...