scholarly journals Elements of Naturalism in McTeague by Frank Norris

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 1721-1732
Author(s):  
Anwar Nessir Surur ◽  
Senbeta Tadesse Dengela
Keyword(s):  
Frank Norris

Naturalist Smellscapes and Environmental Justice

2020 ◽  
pp. 56-84
Author(s):  
Hsuan L. Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Frank Norris ◽  
Ann Petry ◽  
Airborne Particulates ◽  
Helena Maria Viramontes

Chapter 2 traces formal and thematic connections between naturalist fiction and environmental justice narratives by analyzing their pervasive, underexamined references to smell. In representative works by Frank Norris, Ann Petry, and Helena María Viramontes, descriptions of noxious odors indicate spaces and experiences of atmospheric intoxication as characters take airborne particulates into their bodies. Thus, olfactory references—whether they take the form of extensive or offhand descriptions, and whether or not characters are fully conscious of their implications—stage the biopolitical effects of unevenly distributed atmospheric risks.

Frank Norris

1953 ◽  
Vol CXCVIII (mar) ◽  
pp. 130-130
Author(s):  
James D. Hart
Keyword(s):  
Frank Norris

Studs Lonigan and the Search for an American Tragedy

1963 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 46-54
Author(s):  
T. G. Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
Theodore Dreiser ◽  
Frank Norris ◽  
Sherwood Anderson

James T. Farrell was born in 1904 in Chicago, a city which has produced such characteristic American writers as Carl Sandburg, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Meyer Levin and Nelson Algren. Like several of his fellow–citizens he has become known, not altogether unjustly, as a ‘one-book writer’. But if there is Justice in the label which has thus been applied to Farrell his ‘one book’ has been less fairly treated and has suffered in reverse much the same wrong-headed fate as that which has over-taken some of the typical English novels of the last decade. While certain novels like John Braine's Room at the Top have been absurdly over-praised because apparent virtues of ‘realism’ and ‘toughness’ have obscured even more apparent literary shortcomings, Studs Lonigan has been under-praised because an extreme aversion to Farrell's undeniable ‘realism’ and ‘toughness’ has resulted in his equally undeniable literary merits being obscured. Studs Lonigan is not a novel to which can be applied R. P. Blackmur's phrase: “one of those books in which everything is undertaken with seriousness except the writing”.

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