But Dreiser is a good example of a writer whose instincts for fiction to some extent subverted his more schematic intentions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Realism in Fiction] Reference

Dreiser is endlessly fascinating in that regard.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Interview with Harold Bloom] Reference

Dreiser were eight strange and inappropriate volumes, the works of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference

Hemingway, he published Dreiser before anybody else did -- not quite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book Business: Publishing: Past, Present, and Future] Reference

If Theodore Dreiser rewrote Wonder Woman, would you want to read it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fun with Intertextuality] Reference

And then a friend of Dreiser's pinioned Lewis, and Dreiser walked away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sinclair Lewis: Rebel From Mainstreet] Reference

So Dreiser was aware that female emancipation would not mend the matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Carrie and the Leisure Class] Reference

Fate gave Dreiser a great subject which we now call juvenile delinquency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard Times] Reference

They simply weren't as interested in "social fiction" as Dreiser or Lewis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social Fiction] Reference

LAMB: There's a moment in your book where Dreiser and Lewis have a falling out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sinclair Lewis: Rebel From Mainstreet] Reference

They were beautiful, buteven Dreiser couldn't havewrittenthe power theyconveyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim Morgan: Happy Birthday Montgomery Clift] Reference

Dreiser says this falls into the category of "good explanations of a bad method.".    From Wordnik.com.  [David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model] Reference

Did Crane or Dreiser or Wharton believe this was their primary talent as writers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social Fiction] Reference

"A woman should some day write the complete philosophy of clothes," writes Dreiser.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Carrie and the Leisure Class] Reference

Dorothy Parker sums up my feelings about him: Theodore Dreiser/Should ought to write nicer.    From Wordnik.com.  [On William Dean Howells « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference

One element of Dreiser that Bellow does not take over is the deterministic machinery of fate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bellow's Gift] Reference

Mr. CHERNOW: The title -- "Titan" -- well, you know, there was a Dreiser novel called "The Titan.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.] Reference

For moral dilemmas of this vast size, we need Dreiser, rather than our Tom with his outsize moxie.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man Half Full] Reference

I have totally skipped such people as Dreiser, Anderson except for a few stories and Thomas Wolfe.    From Wordnik.com.  [What O'Connor read in grad school] Reference

In the 20th century, we had Mencken, Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, and Dorothy Parker, among many others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference

And Lewis was infuriated, and he dragged Dorothy up to his lawyer and said, "We're going to sue Dreiser.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sinclair Lewis: Rebel From Mainstreet] Reference

On the Dreiser front, I recommend his The Financier, great look at insider trading and municipal politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Octopus] Reference

And Dreiser, despite being a terrible prose stylist, has real power, which Powers has only intermittently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wooden Disposition : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference

All that density of information, and social detail — DeLillo can sometimes seen like Dreiser postmodernized.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Wood on his Criticism and Critics] Reference

“Men are still led by instincts before they are regulated by knowledge,” Dreiser comments, and Cohen nods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amateur Barbarians] Reference

Dreiser ignored the phenomenon but his friend H.L. Mencken was delighted with L.wis, and praised him in Smart Set.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Sinclair Lewis] Reference

Theodore Dreiser, writing in Esquire, called it "the most impressive political phenomenon America has yet produced.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Greg Mitchell: When A Famous Author Ran for Office -- And Politics Changed Forever] Reference

And, technically speaking — I mean, as a writer of narrative — he is like Dreiser attached to the mind of Pynchon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wooden Disposition : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference

Of course, something always feels like it's over for someone in New York, from Howells to Dreiser to Fitzgerald to Leibowitz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kent Jones: Lost World Of New York Art] Reference

At her best, as in the middle section of The Falls, she's like a contemporary Dreiser, both in her slovenliness and in her power.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falls: Summary and book reviews of The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates.] Reference

Ecuador for a couple of months looking for books, and I read a whole bunch of books there from Dreiser to The Amazing Adventures of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music and Lyrics] Reference

I'm just coming to the end of The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser – Jerome Loving's critical biography of my favourite writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pete suggests] Reference

LINGEMAN: Yeah, well, they -- they didn't know each other well, but Lewis always praised Dreiser as a great pioneer, a great pathfinder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sinclair Lewis: Rebel From Mainstreet] Reference

And then Lewis -- Dreiser said after the dinner -- they met and he said, "Take that back, Lewis" -- no, he said, "Say that again, Lewis.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sinclair Lewis: Rebel From Mainstreet] Reference

Except for some works of Dreiser (hard to excerpt) and Henry James (impossible), writing that makes heroes of capitalists is not of the first rank.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary Look] Reference

That anxiety manifested itself in the form of fatigue and nervousness, which writers like Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser depicted in their novels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desperate Patients Pay Big Bucks for Dr. Corsello's Blood Cleansing] Reference

The kids in her class, when they weren't doing blow or getting drunk on stolen bourbon, actually lusted after literature and had impromptu gab sessions about Theodore Dreiser.    From Wordnik.com.  [lugging, schlepping, toting] Reference