Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “donald pizer”
Skip side bar filters

  • American Literary Naturalism

    Late Essays

    by Donald Pizer ...
    The four initial essays in the “Specific Writers and Works” section display Pizer’s critical style in its characteristic varied and incisive form. The initial essay, an exercise in cross-discipline analysis, discusses the ways specific works by Crane, Dreiser, and Steinbeck reveal their author’s response to specific contemporary visual art works and reportage. The seconds offers a novel way of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Frank Norris and American Naturalism

    by Donald Pizer ...
    Series series Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
    ‘Frank Norris and American Naturalism’ brings together in one volume Donald Pizer’s lifelong exploration of Frank Norris’s work, ranging from his 1955 discussion of point of view in ‘The Octopus’ to his 2010 essay on the thematic unity of that novel. The essays as a whole seek to demonstrate both the coherence of Norris’s thought and his contribution toward the establishment of a specific form of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lynching in American Literature and Journalism

    by Yoshinobu Hakutani, Keith Byerman, Neil R. McMillen, Kiyohiko Murayama, Donald Pizer, Noel Polk, Michael Sanders, Robert Butler, Toru Kiuchi, Debbie Lelekis0 ...
    Lynching in American Literature and Journalism consists of twelve essays investigating the history and development of writing about lynching as an American tragedy and the ugliest element of national character. According to the Tuskegee Institute, 4,743 people were lynched between 1882 and 1968 in the United States, including 3,446 African Americans and 1,297 European Americans. More than 73 ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • American Literary Naturalism

    Late Essays

    by Donald Pizer ...
    Series series Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
    The book collects Pizer’s late career essays on various writers and subjects related to American naturalism. Of these, two seek to describe the movement as a whole, six are on specific writers or works (with an emphasis on Theodore Dreiser), and two reprint informative interviews by Pizer on the subject. The essays reflect Pizer’s mature engagement of the subject he has spent a lifetime exploring. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • American Literary Naturalism

    Late Essays

    by Donald Pizer ...
    The four initial essays in the “Specific Writers and Works” section display Pizer’s critical style in its characteristic varied and incisive form. The initial essay, an exercise in cross-discipline analysis, discusses the ways specific works by Crane, Dreiser, and Steinbeck reveal their author’s response to specific contemporary visual art works and reportage. The seconds offers a novel way of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Editing of American Literature, 1890-1930

    Essays and Reviews

    by Donald Pizer ...
    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 ... Read more

    $88.99 USD

  • Frank Norris and American Naturalism

    by Donald Pizer ...
    Series series Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
    Frank Norris is a seminal figure in the history of American literary naturalism despite the brevity of his career. Frank Norris and American Naturalism brings together in one volume Donald Pizer’s lifelong exploration of the naturalist’s work, ranging from his 1955 discussion of point of view in The Octopus to his 2010 essay on the thematic unity of that novel. The essays in Frank Norris and ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Literary Criticism of Frank Norris

    Edited by Donald Pizer ...
    All of American author Frank Norris’s significant critical writings have been compiled in this book, including his articles for the San Francisco Wave during 1896–1897 and selections from his “Weekly Letter” column for the Chicago American in 1901. Essays from these two previously unexploited sources, comprising almost half the book, reveal certain areas of Norris’s thought which heretofore had ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Toward a Modernist Style: John Dos Passos

    by Professor Donald Pizer ...
    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.Donald Pizer charts the evolution of Dos Passos's artistic sensibility from ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Frank Norris and American Naturalism

    by Donald Pizer ...
    Series series Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
    ‘Frank Norris and American Naturalism’ brings together in one volume Donald Pizer’s lifelong exploration of Frank Norris’s work, ranging from his 1955 discussion of point of view in ‘The Octopus’ to his 2010 essay on the thematic unity of that novel. The essays as a whole seek to demonstrate both the coherence of Norris’s thought and his contribution toward the establishment of a specific form of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism

    From Howells to London

    Edited by Donald Pizer ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion examines a number of issues related to the terms realism and naturalism. The introduction seeks both to discuss the problems in the use of these two terms in relation to late nineteenth-century fiction and to describe the history of previous efforts to make the terms expressive of American writing of this period. The Companion includes ten essays which fall into four categories: ... Read more

    Was $44.99 USD Now $28.69 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Sensational Modernism

    Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America

    by Joseph B. Entin ...
    Series series Cultural Studies of the United States
    Challenging the conventional wisdom that the 1930s were dominated by literary and photographic realism, Sensational Modernism uncovers a rich vein of experimental work by politically progressive artists. Examining images by photographers such as Weegee and Aaron Siskind and fiction by writers such as William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright, Tillie Olsen, and Pietro di Donato, Joseph Entin argues ... Read more

    $26.59 USD