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From: The Nineteenth-Century American Short Story[(essay date 1986) In this essay, Beaver considers Crane's emphasis on heroism against the backdrop of the sense of amorality and loss of individuality that arose in the United States toward the end of the nineteenth...
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From: The Pluralistic Philosophy of Stephen Crane[(essay date 1993) In the following excerpt, Dooley examines Crane's poetry and contends that the author's philosophy is theistic, not nihilistic, agnostic, or atheist, as it is often characterized by critics.] I...
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From: A Reading of Stephen Crane[(essay date 1971) In the essay that follows, LaFrance provides an extensive analysis of the themes, structures, conflicts, and comic and ironic elements of several of Crane's major stories, including "The Monster," "The...
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From: Recalling the Wild: Naturalism and the Closing of the American West[(essay date 2000) In the essay below, Lawlor focuses on the short fiction Crane wrote as a result of his 1895 visit to the American West and Mexico, finding the stories naturalistic as well as romantic and pointing out...
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From: American Literary Realism 1870-1910[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, Bassan discusses the nature of intertexts in literature, by which one text is relevant to all others, and examines the intertextual linkages between Shepard’s True West and...
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From: American Literary Realism[(essay date fall 1992) In the following essay, Feaster proposes a less cosmic reading of "The Blue Hotel" by looking at it through a specific cultural context.] Critical commentary on Stephen Crane's "The Blue Hotel"...
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From: Cylinder of Vision: The Fiction and Journalistic Writing of Stephen Crane[(essay date 1972) In the essay that follows, Holton identifies the styles and themes that Crane developed and perfected in his later stories, focusing specifically on how "The Open Boat" evidences Crane's skill at...
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From: American Literary Realism[(essay date winter 2002) In this essay, Dudley expounds on what he terms the code of masculinity embedded in the stories collected in Tales of Adventure (the fifth installment of the University of Virginia's set of the...
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From: Studies in the Humanities[(essay date December 1989) In the following essay, Church purports that in "The Blue Hotel" Crane used the character of the Swede to criticize the ostensibly "civilized" society of the American West, whose tendencies...
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From: Stephen Crane's Blue Badge of Courage[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Monteiro focuses on the images of death, the woman, and the snake in Crane's stories "The Snake" and "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," relating these images to the themes of...
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From: Stephen Crane[(essay date 2004) In the essay below, Hayes centers on Crane's narrative approach to his short stories, using "The Open Boat," "A Man and Some Others," and "The Blue Hotel" to explore how he often combined a...
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From: Stephen Crane in Transition: Centenary Essays[(essay date 1972) In this essay, Westbrook considers the structural unity of "The Monster" and the rest of the Whilomville stories, contending that Crane achieved narrative coherence through his use of irony and a...
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From: ELH[(essay date fall 1993) In the following essay, Gandal declares that Crane rejects the standard characterization of the slum as a place of seduction in Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and instead presents "a separate moral...
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From: Modern Fiction Studies[(essay date summer 1957) In the following essay, Cox offers an analysis of "The Blue Hotel" to illustrate his thesis that Stephen Crane is more of a symbolist than a naturalist.] The limitations of labels are less...
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From: Naturalism in American Fiction: The Classic Phase[(essay date 1984) In the following essay, Condor outlines Stephen Crane's naturalistic vision in "The Open Boat" and "The Blue Hotel."] "The Open Boat" "The Open Boat" is the center of the Crane canon and the...
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From: American Literary Realism, 1870-1910[(essay date fall 1995) In this essay, Monteiro focuses on how, after writing The Red Badge of Courage, Crane attempted to define the notion of heroism in such stories as "A Mystery of Heroism," "The Veteran," and "The...
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From: American Literary Realism[(essay date autumn 1981) In the following essay, Kent analyzes the ways Crane creates epistemological uncertainty in "The Open Boat" and "The Blue Hotel."] Stephen Crane's fiction, especially his short fiction, has...
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From: Journal of Evolutionary Psychology[(essay date August 1989) In the following essay, Petite observes elements of expressionism, in which the inner experience is objectified, in "The Blue Hotel," particularly in the characterization of the Swede and the...
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From: Naturalism in American Fiction: The Classic Phase[(essay date 1984) In the excerpt that follows, Conder looks at "The Open Boat" and "The Blue Hotel" as examples of literary naturalism, discussing the former in terms of its depiction of two societies--the "primitive"...
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From: Drawn from Life: A Representative Selection of Stories[(essay date 1997) In the essay that follows, Gado offers a detailed examination of the stories collected in Drawn from Life--including "A Mystery of Heroism," "Killing His Bear," "The Open Boat," "The Monster," and "The...