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...appointed professor in 1942, and for the last several years he has been secretary of the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature. During the present academic year he has been on sabbatical leave, working on a biography of Theodore Dreiser...
Under that kind of verbal assault, so is the naturalistic novel. Fifteen years ago, with such figures as Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passes and the early Farrell in the crew, young novelists rushed to sign on the happy ship. But in the hands of those who seem to think of life as just another four-letter word, it becomes a drifting derelict...
...average U.S. reader will not bother to wait; he was bored or scared away from most modern poetry long ago. Nonetheless, there is more than a chance that some people who try Paterson for the first time will like it. Despite a humorlessness and awkwardness that make Williams the Dreiser of U.S. poets, the Williams eye sees with clinical honesty. And among poets too often barricaded behind private mutterings or elaborate mythical references, Rutherford's Dr. Williams keeps poking around outdoors. His notion...
...unending search for titles that will make good reading on theater marquees, Hollywood is still hard to satisfy. Among the latest title changes: Where Men Are Men to Fancy Pants; A Mother for May to Father Is a Bachelor; Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy to A Place...
Lewisohn, who spoke third on the Forum program, bitterly attacked the modern American novel as something "stone dead" and condemned the entire movement of naturalism in American literature since Dreiser. He claimed that modern American writers had "taken the cast-off rags of James Joyce and tricked out their prose in them" as a last attempt to make their books seem meaningful...