Theodore Dreiser's 'dual approach' to nature and the city in "Sister Carrie"

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Casa editrice

GRIN Verlag

Pubblicato

2012

Lingua

Deutsch

Pagine

12

Info

12 Pagine

ISBN

978-3-656-29632-4

Hauptbeschreibung

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, Universität Erfurt, Veranstaltung: Reading Course: City and Literature, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: According to Giles, Theodore Dreiser ́s Sister Carrie set the ́model ́ for the “dual approach” (24) to the literary description of the city: “From the beginning [with Dreiser ́s Sister Carrie], the diverse body of American urban fiction has projected a dual response to the city as the embodiment of fascination and promise and as a corrupt, even brutal landscape” (ibid. 35). Giles uses the term ́dual approach ́ to point out that the authors of most ́city novels ́ attribute both positive and negative characteristics to the city. While some of them “emphasize one half of this dichotomy over the other” (ibid. 24), Theodore Dreiser ́s ́approach ́ to the description of the city in Sister Carrie clearly is of a ́dual ́ nature, as he describes positive and negative attributes of the metropolis. Similarly, his approach to nature is also a dual one.