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Book Synopsis Maggie, a Child of the Streets by : Stephen Crane
Download or read book Maggie, a Child of the Streets written by Stephen Crane and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie is an astonishing novel of social realism, which parallels many of today's ills. Set in the urban squalor of New York in the 1890s, it follows the careers of the innocent Maggie and her brother Jimmie, children of brutal and drunken parents. It is a tour-de-force equal to The Red Badge of Courage.
Book Synopsis The Environment of Maggie in Crane's "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" by : Kim Vahnenbruck
Download or read book The Environment of Maggie in Crane's "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" written by Kim Vahnenbruck and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Wuppertal, course: Hauptseminar - New York in American Literature, language: English, abstract: Stephen Crane published his first novel Maggie: A Girl of the Streets in March 1893 on his own expenses under the pseudonym "Johnston Smith". As a young author "who was yet to find a public he was cautious about immediately identifying himself with a work that he himself regarded as shocking" (Ziff x) because it tried "to show that environment is a tremendous thing [...] and frequently shapes lives regardless" (Sorrentino 82). That Maggie is one of the major works to criticize the environment of late 19th century New York City becomes obvious when the reader notices that the protagonist Maggie does neither occur in the first, nor in the last chapter of the novella. Looking more closely at the word "environment" itself one can observe that the term is ambiguous. On the surface the term seems to describe the external living conditions, namely where and under which circumstances the characters live. But it is not the life in the Bowery and the tenements Stephen Crane is referring to since Maggie does not die of starvation or diseases, but of the mental influences, such as the Church and the theater that constantly affect the people. Exactly this environment, Jacob Riis argues, "is indeed a 'tremendous thing in the world' and it frequently shapes the lives of children who grow up in it" (LaFrance 42). Nevertheless, the external living conditions determine the way people are and act. "Crane depicts the influence the city exerts upon the perception of reality of its inhabitants, and this perception differs very much already from one member of the Johnson family to the other" (Schaetzle 19). This is the reason for me to argue that the bad circumstances in the Bowery of New York City contribute to the decay of the moral values and shape lives, as well. T
Download or read book George's Mother written by Stephen Crane and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Naturalism in Stephen Crane's 'Maggie - a Girl of the Streets' by : Kristina Eichhorst
Download or read book Naturalism in Stephen Crane's 'Maggie - a Girl of the Streets' written by Kristina Eichhorst and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, language: English, abstract: When Mark Twain published his Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1884, it was seen as the most important representative of a new literary movement: the realistic literature. Though not everyone thought of the novel as a "masterpiece" from the beginning on, it became more popular and significant in the following decades. Ernest Hemingway even called it "the one book that all modern American literature comes from" (Bloom 2004:2). Taken at face value, this statement implies that also Stephen Crane's Maggie - A Girl of the Streets has been influenced by Twain's writing. Since both authors belong to the same period in American literature they naturally adopted literary styles, topics and devices that were typical for that era. Though both novels belong to the realistic period they vary in certain aspects. Unique to Crane's novel are the use of language and the determinism that accompanies the story. These aspects are the central subjects of this paper. It states that language, the characters and the aspect of determinism make Maggie a rather naturalistic than realistic novel. To understand the difference between both terms a review gives the characteristics of realism and separates naturalism as an independent literary form. The two main aspects that make Maggie a naturalistic novel are being examined separately afterwards. Here, the novel itself shall be the main source. At first, determinism is detected in the novel and it shall explain how the characters' fate is shaped throughout the story. Afterwards, aspects of naturalistic language and animal metaphors are examined. The conclusion gives a brief summary of the findings and offers further considerations on the topic and the novel.
Book Synopsis Illusions and Dreams in Stephen Crane’s "Maggie a Girl of the Streets" as a Portrayal of the Romantic Idealism in Melodramas by :
Download or read book Illusions and Dreams in Stephen Crane’s "Maggie a Girl of the Streets" as a Portrayal of the Romantic Idealism in Melodramas written by and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: This term paper deals with the book "Maggie a Girl of the Streets" by Stephen Crane. In the middle of the 19th century a new type of literature emerged from the prior romanticist novellas. Authors wanted to present life more realistically than it had been portrayed before, separating from romanticist literature which to them did not seem to portray life in an adequate manner. Therefore, the concepts of "Realism" and "Naturalism" were introduced whose followers tried to portray life as it actually was. The book "Maggie a Girl of the Streets" by Stephen Crane is often considered a naturalist story which appears to fulfil the aspect of portraying life in a realistic way. It deals with the struggles of existence in lower class society, which is a typical feature of naturalist stories. However, Crane often confronts the reader with illusions and dreams of the characters in his book, which seems to contradict the notion of a realist story. Thus, it is questionable if Crane’s Maggie can really be considered a naturalist work. It is therefore interesting to find out what purpose the illusions and dreams in Crane’s book have, as it does not appear to be coincidental that they run throughout the whole story. Furthermore the question arises why "Maggie a Girl of the Streets" can nevertheless be considered a realist piece of work. This term paper argues that Crane uses the devices of illusions and ideals in Maggie as a medium to satirise the romantic melodrama along with its sentimentalism, since it strongly simplifies reality. By means of this thesis first Crane’s exaggerated descriptions of fighting scenes are portrayed, which shall serve as a proof for Crane’s melodramatic allusions, followed by Maggie’s blurred depiction of Pete as the ideal man. Finally it is illustrated how the theatre shows, which contain melodramatic elements, appear to work as a parallelism to Maggie’s story.
Book Synopsis A Mystery of Heroism by : Stephen Crane
Download or read book A Mystery of Heroism written by Stephen Crane and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though best known for The Red Badge of Courage, his classic novel of men at war, in his tragically brief life and career Stephen Crane produced a wealth of stories—among them "The Monster," "The Upturned Face," "The Open Boat," and the title story—that stand among the most acclaimed and enduring in the history of American fiction. This superb volume collects stories of unique power and variety in which impressionistic, hallucinatory, and realistic situations alike are brilliantly conveyed through the cold, sometimes brutal irony of Crane's narrative voice.
Book Synopsis Characterization Techniques and Naturalism in Stephen Crane`s "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" by : Maria Melanie Meyer
Download or read book Characterization Techniques and Naturalism in Stephen Crane`s "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" written by Maria Melanie Meyer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Leipzig (Institut für Anglistik), course: Written Academic Discourse, language: English, abstract: Scholars classify Stephen Crane's novel Maggie: A Girl of the Streets as a "blend of realism and naturalism" (Keenan 937). Set in the Bowery district of 19th century Manhattan, it vividly conveys the poor living conditions of the lower classes. Due to rising immigration rates and urbanization during the so-called 'Gilded Age', the social character of New York had undergone dramatic transformations. Thus, the realistic description of the heroine's poor living conditions in Crane's Maggie serves as a vivid illustration of the urban 19th century "residential segregation according to [. . .] social class" (Shi and Tindall 780). Despite its evident realistic elements, Crane's novel cannot merely be categorized as a work of realism. In fact, the dominant techniques of characterization militate in favour of its categorization as a naturalistic novel rather than a realistic one.
Book Synopsis Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by : Stephen Crane
Download or read book Maggie: A Girl of the Streets written by Stephen Crane and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published under the pseudonym of Johnston Smith, this novella was Stephen Crane's first, large venture into the publishing world. Rejected by several publishing firms, Crane self-published this work. Although it wasn't received well by the public at the time, this early work of Crane is important in relation to his later notoriety as an author
Download or read book Burning Boy written by Paul Auster and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane. With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight. Auster’s probing account of this singular life tracks Crane as he rebounds from one perilous situation to the next: A controversial article written at twenty disrupts the course of the 1892 presidential campaign, a public battle with the New York police department over the false arrest of a prostitute effectively exiles him from the city, a star-crossed love affair with an unhappily married uptown girl tortures him, a common-law marriage to the proprietress of Jacksonville’s most elegant bawdyhouse endures, a shipwreck results in his near drowning, he withstands enemy fire to send dispatches from the Spanish-American War, and then he relocates to England, where Joseph Conrad becomes his closest friend and Henry James weeps over his tragic, early death. In Burning Boy, Auster not only puts forth an immersive read about an unforgettable life but also, casting a dazzled eye on Crane’s astonishing originality and productivity, provides uniquely knowing insight into Crane’s creative processes to produce the rarest of reading experiences—the dramatic biography of a brilliant writer as only another literary master could tell it.
Book Synopsis Maggie and other stories by : Stephen Crane
Download or read book Maggie and other stories written by Stephen Crane and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Blue Hotel written by Stephen Crane and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-19 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: " The Blue Hotel + The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky + The Open Boat (3 famous stories by Stephen Crane)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This omnibus contains the 3 famous stories by Stephen Crane: The Blue Hotel The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky The Open Boat Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet who is often called the first modern American writer. Crane was a correspondent in the Greek-Turkish War and the Spanish American War, penning numerous articles, war reports and sketches.
Book Synopsis The Open Boat and Other Stories by : Stephen Crane
Download or read book The Open Boat and Other Stories written by Stephen Crane and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naturalism at Its Finest“If I am going to be drowned—if I am going to be drowned—if I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees?” - Stephen Crane, The Open Boat The Open Boat is a true story about Crane’s traumatic experience of surviving a shipwreck. He along with other three men were stranded at sea for 30 hours before trying to reach dry land. Experience alongside the four characters what it really means to be on the brink, when not even God is able to save you. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes.
Book Synopsis Characteristics of Naturalism in Stephen Crane's "Maggie. A Girls of the Streets" by : Andra Stefanescu
Download or read book Characteristics of Naturalism in Stephen Crane's "Maggie. A Girls of the Streets" written by Andra Stefanescu and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-06-13 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 10, University of Bucharest (Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures), course: English Literature, language: English, abstract: This essay takes a closer look at characteristics of Naturalism in Stephen Crane’s "Maggie.A girl of the streets.".
Download or read book A Lost Lady written by Willa Cather and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2023-01-18 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A Lost Lady’ is Willa Cather’s brilliant depiction of the decline of the American pioneer spirit and the bleakness of frontier life. In it, socialite Marrian Forrester lives with her husband, the ageing industrial magnate Captain Forrester, in the small town of Sweet Water. To the young, adoring narrator Niel Herbert, she is both bewitching and beautiful. The very definition of a lady. But Marrian Forrester is not what she seems and sparked by the death of her husband; her social decline lays bare her contradictions to the town. Published in 1923, Cather’s revered novel is an elegy to the pioneer west. The writer F. Scott Fitzgerald acknowledged its influence on his famous work ‘The Great Gatsby’ and the character of Daisy Buchanan in particular. Willa Cather (1873-1947) was an American writer who won acclaim for her novels that captured the American pioneer experience. Her books include ‘O Pioneers!’ (1913), ‘The Song of the Lark’ (1915), ‘My Ántonia’ (1918) and Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) which was an instant critical success. In 1923, Cather gained widespread international recognition when she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for ‘One of Ours’, a novel set during World War I. Willa Cather was granted honorary degrees by Princeton, Berkeley and Yale and in 1931 she graced the cover of Time Magazine. The American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her a gold medal for fiction in 1944.
Download or read book War is Kind written by Stephen Crane and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Book Synopsis The Damnation of Theron Ware or Illumination by : Harold Frederic
Download or read book The Damnation of Theron Ware or Illumination written by Harold Frederic and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Femme Fatale in American Literature by : Ghada Suleiman Sasa
Download or read book The Femme Fatale in American Literature written by Ghada Suleiman Sasa and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Characters in the literary tradition of American naturalism are usually perceived as passive, lacking in will, weak, and predetermined. They are constantly seen as the victims of heredity and environment, and their lives are shaped according to these strong forces that operate upon them. This interesting book examines the representation of female characters in American naturalism and argues that women in American naturalism are often represented as femmes fatales. Since heredity and environment are the determining factors in their lives, they are victims who have no control. However, with characters such as Trina Sieppe in Frank Norris's McTeague, Caroline Meeber in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's The Awakening, and Helga Crane in Nella Larsen's Quicksand, these women victims gradually turn themselves into victimizers in order to conquer both heredity and environment. They consciously and deliberately use the only power they have that can help them overcome the naturalistic world in which they are entrapped--the power of the feminine. The book explains who exactly the femme fatale that has been born out of American naturalism is, and explores images of women in American realism who precede the femme fatale of American naturalism. This study examines characters like Trina Sieppe, Caroline Meeber, Edna Pontellier, and Helga Crane. It analyzes these women's backgrounds, their demeanors, their temperaments, their experiences, and their settings, and explains how and when each woman decides to use her sexuality. There is also a brief discussion of other femmes fatales in American naturalism, such as Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. Although the perception of women in nineteenth-century American literature has always had its place in discussions of literary texts, this book is unique in its argument that women in American naturalism are neither weak nor passive, but rather are strong and daring women who try diligently to find a means of fighting back. This book is an important addition to collections in literature and Women's studies.
