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The Literary Criticism of Frank Norris

Product Description: All of American author Frank Norrisâs significant critical writings have been compiled in this book, including his articles for the San Francisco Wave during 1896â1897 and selections from his âWeekly Letterâ column for the Chicago American in 1901...read more

By Donald Pizer (editor)

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9781477304624 | Reprint edition (Univ of Texas Pr, December 19, 2014), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: All of American author Frank Norrisâs significant critical writings have been compiled in this book, including his articles for the San Francisco Wave during 1896â1897 and selections from his âWeekly Letterâ column for the Chicago American in 1901.

The Significant Hamlin Garland: A Collection of Essays

Product Description: âThe Significant Hamlin Garlandâ collects the best of Donald Pizerâs essays dealing with Garlandâs early work and activities in an effort to re-establish the importance of this formative stage in his career. The essays in the first part of the book are devoted to Garlandâs radical economic and artistic beliefs and activities, while those in the second half concentrate on his most permanent work of the period: âMain-Travelled Roadsâ, his novel âRose of Dutcherâs Coollyâ, and his autobiography âA Son of the Middle Borderâ...read more

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9781783083053 | Anthem Pr, October 15, 2014, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: âThe Significant Hamlin Garlandâ collects the best of Donald Pizerâs essays dealing with Garlandâs early work and activities in an effort to re-establish the importance of this formative stage in his career.

Toward a Modernist Style: John Dos Passos: A Collection of Essays

Product Description: A new appraisal of Dos Passos's work and life, Toward a Modernist Style describes both the central currents in his early work, and his full participation in literary modernism, culminating in his U.S.A. trilogy, as well as the relationship of these currents to those of an especially vibrant period in American expression...read more

By Donald Pizer

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9781623564438 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 24, 2013, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: A new appraisal of Dos Passos's work and life, Toward a Modernist Style describes both the central currents in his early work, and his full participation in literary modernism, culminating in his U.

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9781623561185 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 24, 2013, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: A new appraisal of Dos Passos's work and life, Toward a Modernist Style describes both the central currents in his early work, and his full participation in literary modernism, culminating in his U.

The Game as It Is Played: Essays on Theodore Dreiser

Product Description: The Game as It Is Played comprises the best of Donald Pizerâs essays on Theodore Dreiser. Pizer, one of Dreiserâs principal critics over the past forty years, is especially concerned in establishing the distinctive nature and quality of Dreiserâs naturalism in many of these essays...read more

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9781433117800 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, September 30, 2013, cover price $85.95 | About this edition: The Game as It Is Played comprises the best of Donald Pizerâs essays on Theodore Dreiser.

Writer in Motion: The Major Fiction of Stephen Crane: Collected Critical Essays

Product Description: Writer in Motion contains groundbreaking, seminal essays that have become standard readings of Crane's fiction. Clearly written and meticulously argued, this remarkable collection charts a legacy of five decades of incisive commentary that will continue to shape the way scholars view Crane and, more broadly, American naturalism...read more

By Donald Pizer

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9780404644772 | Ams Pr Inc, June 30, 2013, cover price $76.50 | About this edition: Writer in Motion contains groundbreaking, seminal essays that have become standard readings of Crane's fiction.

The Editing of American Literature, 1890-1930: Essays and Reviews

Product Description: Since the 1960s, Donald Pizer has been writing about late-19th-century American literature, with an emphasis on the major fiction of Theodore Dreiser and Stephen Crane. Most academics whose interests lie primarily in the preparation of scholarly editions are attracted to the paradoxical mix of adherence to a rigorous process and an opportunity for speculative thinking that is distinctive to this branch of literary studies...read more

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9780810885660 | 1 edition (Scarecrow Pr, July 30, 2012), cover price $72.00 | About this edition: Since the 1960s, Donald Pizer has been writing about late-19th-century American literature, with an emphasis on the major fiction of Theodore Dreiser and Stephen Crane.

Dictionary of Literary Biography: Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy: A Documentary Volume

Product Description: This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars...read more

By Donald Pizer (editor)

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9780787681791 | Gale Group, April 1, 2011, cover price $363.00 | About this edition: This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars.

Hamlin Garland, Prairie Radical: Writings from the 1890s

Product Description: "I am a reformer--a radical--a promoter of Democracy. . . .â--Hamlin Garland to Horace Traubel, 13 January 1892Â As a self-proclaimed native "son of the middle border" states of Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota, Hamlin Garland wrote short stories, novels, and essays about the harsh realities of farm life...read more

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9780252035098 | Reprint edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, April 10, 2010), cover price $47.00 | About this edition: "I am a reformer--a radical--a promoter of Democracy.

American Naturalism and the Jews: Garland, Norris, Dreiser, Wharton, and Cather

By Donald Pizer

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9780252033438 | Univ of Illinois Pr, June 18, 2008, cover price $31.00

A Picture and a Criticism of Life: New Letters

Product Description: Dreiser's captivating portraits of turn-of-the-century America's famous figures Before coming to national attention for his novel Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser worked for nearly a decade as a magazine editor and freelance writer...read more

By Theodore Dreiser and Donald Pizer (editor)

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9780252031069 | Univ of Illinois Pr, February 8, 2008, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Dreiser's captivating portraits of turn-of-the-century America's famous figures Before coming to national attention for his novel Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser worked for nearly a decade as a magazine editor and freelance writer.

DOS Passos: A Life

Product Description: A New York Times Notable BookAn intimate biography of a great American writer.He rose from a childhood as the illegitimate son of a financial titan to become the man Sartre called "the greatest writer of our time." A progressive writer who turned his passions into the groundbreaking U...read more

By Virginia Spencer Carr and Donald Pizer

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9780810122000 | Northwestern Univ Pr, January 30, 2005, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: A New York Times Notable BookAn intimate biography of a great American writer.

Theodore Dreiser: Interviews

Product Description: Hardly shy about himself or his work, Theodore Dreiser knew the value of publicity. Over four decades he often consented to interviews, answering questions about his fiction, his politics, and even previous interviews. Throughout his life Dreiser raised a storm of protest with his realistic novels, blistered public figures and other authors with un-tempered criticism, scorned pieties masking brutality in law and economics, and expressed a few contradictions of his own...read more

By Donald Pizer (editor) and Frederic E. Rusch (editor)

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9780252029431 | Univ of Illinois Pr, December 30, 2004, cover price $54.00 | About this edition: Hardly shy about himself or his work, Theodore Dreiser knew the value of publicity.

John DOS Passos's U.S.A.: A Documentary Volume

By Donald Pizer (editor)

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9780787660185 | Gale Group, March 1, 2003, cover price $363.00 | About this edition: This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars.

American Literary Naturalism: Recent and Uncollected Essays

Product Description: This research work deals with subjects of great interest in current criticism---the impact of the New Historicist studies on the interpretation of American literary naturalism, and the issue of the possible persistence of the movement in contemporary fiction...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Donald Pizer

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9781930901490 | Maunsel & Co, July 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This research work deals with subjects of great interest in current criticism---the impact of the New Historicist studies on the interpretation of American literary naturalism, and the issue of the possible persistence of the movement in contemporary fiction.

Literary Masters: Theodore Dreiser

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By Donald Pizer

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9780787640903 | Gale Group, June 1, 2000, cover price $68.00 | About this edition: Book by Pizer, Donald

Documents of American Realism and Naturalism

Product Description: Donald Pizer presents the major critical discussions of American realism and naturalism from the beginnings of the movement in the 1870s to the present. He includes the most often cited discussions ranging from William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Frank Norris in the late nineteenth century to those by V...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780809320967 | Reissue edition (Southern Illinois Univ Pr, February 1, 1998), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Donald Pizer presents the major critical discussions of American realism and naturalism from the beginnings of the movement in the 1870s to the present.

American Expatriate Writing and the Paris Moment: Modernism and Place

Product Description: Montparnasse and its cafe life, the shabby working-class area of the place de la Contrescarpe and the Pantheon, the small restaurants and cafes along the Seine, and the Right Bank world of the well-to-do...for American writers self-exiled to Paris during the 1920s and 1930s, the French capital represented what their homeland could not a milieu that through the freedom of thought and action it permitted and the richness of life it offered, nurtured the full expression of the creative imagination...read more

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9780807120262 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Montparnasse and its cafe life, the shabby working-class area of the place de la Contrescarpe and the Pantheon, the small restaurants and cafes along the Seine, and the Right Bank world of the well-to-do.

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9780807122204 | Reprint edition (Louisiana State Univ Pr, September 1, 1997), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Montparnasse and its cafe life, the shabby working-class area of the place de la Contrescarpe and the Pantheon, the small restaurants and cafes along the Seine, and the Right Bank world of the well-to-do.

McTeague: A Story of San Francisco : Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism

By Frank Norris and Donald Pizer (editor)

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9780393970135 | 2 sub edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 1996), cover price $20.60

The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism: Howells to London

Product Description: The terms realism and naturalism are considered in the context of expressing a style of American writing in relation to late nineteenth century fiction movements. This text analyzes ten major texts, from W.D. Howell's The Rise of Silas Lapham to Jack London's The Call of the Wild...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Donald Pizer (editor)

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9780521433006 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1995, cover price $67.99 | About this edition: The terms realism and naturalism are considered in the context of expressing a style of American writing in relation to late nineteenth century fiction movements.

The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism: From Howells to London

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By Donald Pizer (editor)

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9780521438766 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1995, cover price $49.99

The Red Badge of Courage: An Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Sources Criticism

Product Description: First published in 1895, America's greatest novel of the Civil War was written before 21-year-old Stephen Crane had "smelled even the powder of a sham battle." But this powerful psychological study of a young soldier's struggle with the horrors, both within and without, that war strikes the reader with its undeniable realism and with its masterful descriptions of the moment-by-moment riot of emotions felt by me under fire...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Stephen Crane and Donald Pizer (editor)

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9780393964301 | 3 sub edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 1994), cover price $14.20 | About this edition: First published in 1895, America's greatest novel of the Civil War was written before 21-year-old Stephen Crane had "smelled even the powder of a sham battle.

The Theory and Practice of American Literary Naturalism: Selected Essays and Reviews

Product Description: In his first book devoted exclusively to naturalism, Donald Pizer brings together thirteen essays and four reviews written over a thirty-year period that in their entirety constitute a full-scale interpretation of the basic character and historical shape of naturalism in America...read more

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9780809318476 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, May 28, 1993, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: In his first book devoted exclusively to naturalism, Donald Pizer brings together thirteen essays and four reviews written over a thirty-year period that in their entirety constitute a full-scale interpretation of the basic character and historical shape of naturalism in America.

New Essays on Sister Carrie

Product Description: The introduction by Donald Pizer describes in detail the biographical and historical background of the novel and its critical reputation. The four original essays in the volume not only touch on long-established approaches to Sister Carrie but also reflect a number of the concerns of recent scholarly and critical movements...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780521382786 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1991, cover price $69.99 | About this edition: The introduction by Donald Pizer describes in detail the biographical and historical background of the novel and its critical reputation.

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9780521387149 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1991, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: The introduction by Donald Pizer describes in detail the biographical and historical background of the novel and its critical reputation.

Theodore Dreiser: A Primary Bibliography and Reference Guide

By Richard W. Dowell, Donald Pizer and Frederic E. Rusch

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9780816189762 | 2 edition (G K Hall, July 1, 1991), cover price $80.00

Sister Carrie: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, and Sources Criticism

Product Description: This Norton Critical Edition features the 1900 Doubleday Page text of the novel. "Backgrounds and Sources" reprints excerpts from Dreiser's autobiographies, and a documentary account, drawn largely from Dreiser's correspondence with Frank Norris, Arthur Henry, Walter H...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Theodore Dreiser and Donald Pizer (editor)

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9780393960426 | 2 sub edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 1991), cover price $17.05 | About this edition: This Norton Critical Edition features the 1900 Doubleday Page text of the novel.

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