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Title: Theater makes any book better :)
Review: Actually enjoyed this book quite a bit more than i expected to. I had read an American Tragedy and did not enjoy the read at all. This one had a few advantages over that one. 1- it is only about half as long 2- it has a theater twist and 3- was in a Lit analysis class as i was reading it and it was fun to see what each critical approach (feminist, marxist, psychoanalytic, and formalist) brought out in the book. Dreiser is a thorough enough author that reading this book through any lens brings new issues and view points to the surface. It would be fine to read just straight through, in fact still enriching and enjoyable, but for a good book to read with literary theory in mind or write a paper on this is a good one to choose...
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