Dreiser's

As Dreiser's Carrie, Crane's Maggie, and London's own Buck all had learned how environment treats people and how to adjust to that hostile environment, Fang also learns his lesson well.

Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang 2010

Dreiser's style is unaffected, but not at all clear.

Style in Fiction 2009

But gone are the days of larger-than-life anti-heroes like Frank Cowperwood in Theodore Dreiser's "The Financier" 1912, a Doctor Faust of the stock market with a ­diabolical genius for ­multiplying wealth.

Modern Money Sam Sacks 2011

And now Bharati Mukherjee's "Miss New India" echoes Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie"—it's about a young provincial woman who seeks her fortune in the big city.

Rock City By Way Of Bangalore Sam Sacks 2011

When Lindsay Waters asserts that Dreiser's portrayal of Carrie Meeber allows us to "experience ourselves as vain and frail and ambitious," he's actually describing a response to the novel that constricts the literary experience, that reduces it to an opportunity for vicarious self-dramatizing.

Literary Study 2009

In Dreiser's story the young woman asks: 'Should I wait for the man of my dreams or should I marry the man who loves me?'

George Heymont: Invasion of the Narcissists George Heymont 2011

The image of the rocking chair captures Dreiser's recognition of her waiting yet for fulfillment.

Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang 2010

And now Bharati Mukherjee's "Miss New India" echoes Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie"—it's about a young provincial woman who seeks her fortune in the big city.

Rock City By Way Of Bangalore Sam Sacks 2011

The baldness of Dreiser's dismissal of any kind of narrative that doesn't "go forward in a more or less direct line" should seem comical to us now, date-stamped as it is: the convention-thwarting achronological narrative has become a standard feature of film and television, has become conventional.

David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model 2010

The baldness of Dreiser's dismissal of any kind of narrative that doesn't "go forward in a more or less direct line" should seem comical to us now, date-stamped as it is: the convention-thwarting achronological narrative has become a standard feature of film and television, has become conventional.

David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model 2010