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- catalog abstract ""The purpose of this investigation is threefold: first, to explicate Dreiser's passing allusions to Greek myth and literature; second, to explore some of his less obvious but more important structural, conceptual, and philosophical debts to the Greeks; third, to elucidate how this "pagan" point of view helps untangle many of the traditional, knotty problems of Dreiser scholarship. St. Jean operates from a central assumption: that a late-twentieth-century critical viewpoint, even when buttressed by formidable knowledge of American and European literary history, is finally insufficient for a fair appraisal of Dreiser's canon if unaccompanied by some understanding of the author's (often highly romanticized) debt to "paganism."" "The study does not proceed according to the traditional, chronological method of chapter-per-novel, but instead in four intertextual, subject-based chapters: first, a reappraisal of Dreiser's status as a literary naturalist and his place in literary history; second, a reading of his often-overlooked and subversive mode of social criticism; third, a reconciliation of his controversial perspectives on gender and sexuality; and, finally, an accounting of his attitudes toward religion as mythology and a discussion of the canon of American authors as a self-construed pantheon, with Dreiser as an aspiring member."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12170946.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""The purpose of this investigation is threefold: first, to explicate Dreiser's passing allusions to Greek myth and literature; second, to explore some of his less obvious but more important structural, conceptual, and philosophical debts to the Greeks; third, to elucidate how this "pagan" point of view helps untangle many of the traditional, knotty problems of Dreiser scholarship. St. Jean operates from a central assumption: that a late-twentieth-century critical viewpoint, even when buttressed by formidable knowledge of American and European literary history, is finally insufficient for a fair appraisal of Dreiser's canon if unaccompanied by some understanding of the author's (often highly romanticized) debt to "paganism."" "The study does not proceed according to the traditional, chronological method of chapter-per-novel, but instead in four intertextual, subject-based chapters: first, a reappraisal of Dreiser's status as a literary naturalist and his place in literary history; second, a reading of his often-overlooked and subversive mode of social criticism; third, a reconciliation of his controversial perspectives on gender and sexuality; and, finally, an accounting of his attitudes toward religion as mythology and a discussion of the canon of American authors as a self-construed pantheon, with Dreiser as an aspiring member."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Naturalism -- The Augean Stables -- Proem -- Modern Mimesis -- The American Tragedian -- Social Criticism -- Oikos -- Hesiod and the Work Ethic -- Logos -- Gender and Sexuality -- Sister Carrie and Gender Bending Early in the Late Century -- "Whom the Gods Would Destroy ..." -- A Gallery of Women and the Paradoxes of Male Subjectivity -- Religion, Mythology, and Intertextuality -- American Mythos.".
- catalog extent "235 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Pagan Dreiser.".
- catalog identifier "0838638872 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Pagan Dreiser.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Madison, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog relation "Pagan Dreiser.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "813/.52 21".
- catalog subject "American fiction Greek influences.".
- catalog subject "Classicism United States.".
- catalog subject "Classicism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 Knowledge Mythology.".
- catalog subject "Myth in literature.".
- catalog subject "Mythology, Greek, in literature.".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, American, in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS3507.R55 Z835 2001".
- catalog subject "Paganism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Religion and literature United States History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Naturalism -- The Augean Stables -- Proem -- Modern Mimesis -- The American Tragedian -- Social Criticism -- Oikos -- Hesiod and the Work Ethic -- Logos -- Gender and Sexuality -- Sister Carrie and Gender Bending Early in the Late Century -- "Whom the Gods Would Destroy ..." -- A Gallery of Women and the Paradoxes of Male Subjectivity -- Religion, Mythology, and Intertextuality -- American Mythos.".
- catalog title "Pagan Dreiser : songs from American mythology / Shawn St. Jean.".
- catalog type "text".