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Boyd, Jane Jennifer. "Frank Norris: Spatial Form and Narrative Time," University of Tulsa, January 1990. (12, 2, 15)
This dissertation considers pictorialism, spatial form and narrative time in the major works of Frank Norris. Examined is the role of the American artist in an increasingly industializiag America, including such cultural phenomena as the 1997-98 corner in wheat on the Chicago Exchange and the battle between wheat ranchers an the railroad in California near the end of the nineteenth century. The impact of European art on American culture, and particularly on the California Impressionists, is considered both in its cultural context and as described by Norris. The tension between realism and impressionism and the relationship between aestheticism and capitalism, equally symbiotic and frictional, are explored in both their manifestations in American culture and within Norris’s fiction.
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