Romance and Tragedy in THEODORE DREISER ’S SISTER CARRIE and WILLA CATHER’ S A LOST LADY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY.

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dc.contributor.authorHeddar Sofiane
dc.contributor.authorLaouari Amira
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-01T12:57:16Z
dc.date.available2025-12-01T12:57:16Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description62p. ; (+CD-Rom)
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation is a comparative study between Willa Cather's A Lost Lady (1923) and Theodore Dreiser‘s Sister Carrie (1900). (1923), to achieve our work, we have widened the scope of our investigation within a theoretical frame. For this matter, we have relied on some concepts of Northrop Frye‘s theory of Romance and Tragedy as exposed in his book Anatomy of Criticism (1957) particularly the transition from the mythos of Summer (romance) to Winter (tragedy).The first chapter examines characterization by highliting both similarities and contrasts between the two protagonists through Northrop frye‘s concepts of innocent youth ,the romantic heroine and their departure .It also shows how both novels illustrate the protagonist journey from an idealised world to isolation .The second chapter focus on plot by analyzing the rise and the fall of each protagonist and tracing their progression from rise to decline .The third chapter deals with setting , revealing how space functions in each novel by applying by applying Frye‘s concept the Green World .The study concludes that both Dreiser s and Cather‘s novels aligne with the essential characteristics of romance and tragedy.
dc.identifier.citationGeneral and Comparative Literature
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.ummto.dz/handle/ummto/29273
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversité Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou
dc.subjectWilla Cather
dc.subjectTheodore Dreiser
dc.subjectRomance
dc.subjectTragedy
dc.subjectDeparture
dc.subjectjourney
dc.subjectIllusion
dc.subjectRise
dc.subjectDecline
dc.subjectSociety
dc.titleRomance and Tragedy in THEODORE DREISER ’S SISTER CARRIE and WILLA CATHER’ S A LOST LADY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY.
dc.typeThesis

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