Theodore Dreiser
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Theodore Dreiser
西奥多·德莱塞 （1871—1945）
Brief introduction
He was an American author and a outstanding representative of naturalism, whose novels depict reallife subjects in a harsh light. Dreiser's novels were held to be amoral, and he battled throughout his career against censorship and popular taste. His principal concern was with the conflict between human needs and the demands of society for material success.
His works
• Sister Carrie 1900 • Jennie Gerhardt 1911 • An American Tragedy 1925 • The Financier 1912 • The Titan 1914 • The Stoic (not published until 1947 after he died) • The Genius 1915 • Dreiser Looks at Russia 1928
trilogy of desire 欲望三部曲
Writing style
• Without good structure • Deficient characterization • Lack in imagination • Simple words • Journalistic method • Techniques in painting
His life
• His first novel, Sister Carrie, was rejected becausein presenting the true nature of American life. • He faced every form of attack that a serious artist could encounter: misunderstanding, misrepresentation, artistic isolation and commercial seduction. But he survived to lead the rebellion of the 1900s. • He died of heart failure on December 28, 1945, before completing the last chapter of The Stoic.
His life
• Dreiser was born in Indiana in 1871, the ninth child of German immigrants.
• His childhood was spent in extreme poverty and he was forced to leave home in search of work at the age of fifteen.
Major Features of Theodore Dreiser
• He stressed determinism in his novels. • He developed the capacity for photographic and relentless observation, thereby truthfully reflecting the society and people of his time. • His narrative method is natural and free from artifice. • His novels are full of tragedies, serious subjects and miserable side of the society. • His powerful frankness widens the social and sexual range in America.
Evaluation
• He is regarded as an outstanding representative of American naturalism. • It is in Dreiser’s works that American naturalism is said to have come of age. • His works are powerful in their portrayal of the changing American life, but his style is considered crude. • He is the pioneer and representative writer of American modern novels, and he is considered as one of the big three of American novelist with Hemingway and Faulkner.
Naturalism was a literary movement taking place from 1880s to 1940s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character.
• After some months at Indiana University, he became a reporter on the Chicago Globe before arriving in New York in 1894. • In 1898, he married with Sara White, a schoolteacher, but the marriage was unhappy.
西奥多·德莱塞 （1871—1945）
Brief introduction
He was an American author and a outstanding representative of naturalism, whose novels depict reallife subjects in a harsh light. Dreiser's novels were held to be amoral, and he battled throughout his career against censorship and popular taste. His principal concern was with the conflict between human needs and the demands of society for material success.
His works
• Sister Carrie 1900 • Jennie Gerhardt 1911 • An American Tragedy 1925 • The Financier 1912 • The Titan 1914 • The Stoic (not published until 1947 after he died) • The Genius 1915 • Dreiser Looks at Russia 1928
trilogy of desire 欲望三部曲
Writing style
• Without good structure • Deficient characterization • Lack in imagination • Simple words • Journalistic method • Techniques in painting
His life
• His first novel, Sister Carrie, was rejected becausein presenting the true nature of American life. • He faced every form of attack that a serious artist could encounter: misunderstanding, misrepresentation, artistic isolation and commercial seduction. But he survived to lead the rebellion of the 1900s. • He died of heart failure on December 28, 1945, before completing the last chapter of The Stoic.
His life
• Dreiser was born in Indiana in 1871, the ninth child of German immigrants.
• His childhood was spent in extreme poverty and he was forced to leave home in search of work at the age of fifteen.
Major Features of Theodore Dreiser
• He stressed determinism in his novels. • He developed the capacity for photographic and relentless observation, thereby truthfully reflecting the society and people of his time. • His narrative method is natural and free from artifice. • His novels are full of tragedies, serious subjects and miserable side of the society. • His powerful frankness widens the social and sexual range in America.
Evaluation
• He is regarded as an outstanding representative of American naturalism. • It is in Dreiser’s works that American naturalism is said to have come of age. • His works are powerful in their portrayal of the changing American life, but his style is considered crude. • He is the pioneer and representative writer of American modern novels, and he is considered as one of the big three of American novelist with Hemingway and Faulkner.
Naturalism was a literary movement taking place from 1880s to 1940s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character.
• After some months at Indiana University, he became a reporter on the Chicago Globe before arriving in New York in 1894. • In 1898, he married with Sara White, a schoolteacher, but the marriage was unhappy.