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'Sister Carrie' and 'Jennie Gerhardt': Theodore Dreiser's portraits of enduring woman.

机译：《嘉莉妹妹》和《珍妮·格哈特》：西奥多·德莱瑟（Theodore Dreiser）的经久不衰的女人肖像。

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Throughout his life, Theodore Dreiser was driven by two powerful obsessions: women and success. Dreiser became a successful author, and during his life he engaged countless women as lovers, confidants, advisors, editors, cooks, and typists. As W. A. Swanberg notes (Dreiser 1965), in spite of his affection for women, Dreiser was “the relentless promoter of sexual intrigues, the love cheat who asked for a high moral order from his own standards.” This antithetical notion is woven throughout Dreiser's work.; Dreiser's contradictory impulse evidences itself in his fiction though a compassion for female characters. Critics have convincingly demonstrated that Dreiser's naturalism is tempered by his sympathy for characters at odds with society, yet no one has explored the notion that this compassion is almost exclusively reserved for women. As an emissary of his culture, Dreiser was a womanizer, but his affection for women is manifest in his first novel through his compassionately drawn portrait of Carrie. In Sister Carrie, Dreiser writes against his culture's gender stereotypes. He offers realistic portraits of George Hurstwood and Charles Drouet. In contrast to these male archetypes, Carrie is valorized as morally superior to the men in the novel.; In Dreiser's second novel, Jennie Gerhardt, Dreiser was years ahead of his time in exploring the notion that social forces may conspire to create a destructive interdependence of power and powerlessness between men and women. Through Jennie, he focuses on a woman who maintains a steady inner growth despite her inherently brutal naturalistic environment.; Dreiser's enduring female characters are more remarkable when measured against the women characters portrayed by his peers and predecessors. Kate Chopin's Edna Pontellier in The Awakening (1899), manifests a timidity that suggests a female archetype. Edna's weakness is magnified when compared to the strength of Dreiser's Carrie Meeber. Similarly, Thomas Hardy's tragic portrait of Tess, in Tess of the d'Urberville's (1892), contrasts markedly with Dreiser's optimistic portrait of Jennie in Jennie Gerhardt. Finally, Dreiser's affection for Jennie contrasts sharply with Stephen Crane's indifference to Maggie Johnson in Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1896).; The profound influence that Dreiser had on the lives of many women, and that they most certainly had on him, differentiates him from other writers of his time. Women provided Dreiser with a distinctively sympathetic beacon that guides his work. Dreiser champions his female characters and thus allows them to rise above the inhibiting forces of social determinism.
机译：西奥多·德雷塞（Theodore Dreiser）在他的一生中都受到两种强大的痴迷的驱使：女性和成功。德莱塞（Dreiser）成为一位成功的作家，在他的一生中，他聘请了无数妇女担任恋人，知己，顾问，编辑，厨师和打字员。正如斯旺伯格（W. A. Swanberg）（ Dreiser 1965）所指出的那样，尽管Dreiser喜爱女性，但他还是“不屈不挠的性阴谋的倡导者，是一个以自己的标准要求道德高尚的爱情作弊者。”这种对立的观念贯穿于德莱塞的整个作品中。德莱塞的矛盾冲动通过对女性角色的同情而在他的小说中得到证明。批评者有说服力地表明，德雷塞（Dreiser）的自然主义因其对与社会矛盾的人物的同情而受到抑制，但没有人探索过这种同情几乎只为女性保留的观念。作为其文化的使者，德雷塞（Dreiser）是一位女性化者，但他对女性的爱意在他的第一本小说中就通过他富有同情心的嘉莉肖像得以体现。德雷塞（Dreiser）在嘉莉妹妹（Sister Carrie）中反对他的文化对性别的刻板印象。他提供了乔治·赫斯特伍德和查尔斯·德鲁埃的写实肖像。与这些男性原型相反，嘉莉被誉为在小说中在道德上优于男性。在德莱塞尔的第二本小说《斜体珍妮·格哈特》中，德莱塞尔比他的时代领先了多年，他探索社会力量可能合谋在男人和女人之间建立破坏性的相互依存关系。通过珍妮（Jennie），他专注于一个尽管内在残酷的自然主义环境仍能保持稳定内在成长的女性。与他的同辈和前辈所描绘的女性角色相比，Dreiser的持久女性角色更为显着。凯特·肖邦（Kate Chopin）的《觉醒》（The Awakening

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    Vasey, Margaret Isabella.;

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    Kent State University.;

  • 授予单位 Kent State University.;
  • 学科 Literature American.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2002
  • 页码 219 p.
  • 总页数 219
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 I712;
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