Search Results for John Steinbeck

...Mary Elene Wood Abstract This article begins with the discovery in a Wellcome Library war psychiatry archive of a carbon copy of one of John Steinbeck’s 1943 dispatches to the New York Tribune from the Italian front. The article examines Steinbeck’s dispatch in relation to documents in the military...

... the legitimation crisis of the regulatory state. Highsmith repudiates a narrative world governed by structural or environmental conditions and—in contrast to literary naturalists like Theodore Dreiser and John Steinbeck—presents the darker corners of human experience as phenomena of the largely autonomous...

.... Katherine A. Rodger. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2002. liv, 283 pp. $39.95. Marine biologist Edward Ricketts is better known in literary circles as a close friend of John Steinbeck. He was the model for ‘‘Doc’’ in Cannery Row and may...

... to displace John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath (1939) and Dorothea Lange’s image of the migrant mother, by offering readings of work from the same period by Wright, Elizabeth Catlett, William Attaway, Ann Petry, Marita Bonner, Chester Himes, and Sanora Babb, her project ultimately works to integrate...

... that White should be recog- nizedasaforefatherofliterarynonfiction. 6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 223 of 232 John Steinbeck and the Critics. By John Ditsky. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House. 2000. xii, 158 pp. $59.00...

..., alcoholism, and the role of mas- querade in McCullers’s writings. An editor’s introduction to the author’s life and work explores McCullers’s mixed feelings toward the South and her view of humanity as fundamentally flawed. 440  American Literature John Steinbeck’s Global Dimensions. Ed. Kyoko Ariki...

..., McCarthy, Welty, and Williams . By Sam V. H. Reese. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2017. ix, 210 pp. Cloth, $42.00; e-book available. This study surveys John Steinbeck’s major works with specific attention to their cultural and historical context. Of Mice and Men (1940), The Grapes...

... literature, their publication histories, and contemporaneous discourses and events through an Asian Americanist critical lens. Her four chapters cover Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952), John Steinbeck’s East of Eden (1952), the Melville revival (focusing on the late 1940s through the 1950s...

... in the Late 1930s . By Milton A. Cohen. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2018. ix, 373 pp. Cloth, $50.00; e-book, $50.00. John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939), Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940): the authors of these award-winning...

... Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, Erskine Caldwell’s Tobacco Road and God’s Little Acre, and John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath all adopt mainstream representations of poor white women with vary- ing degrees of ambivalence. Meanwhile, women-authored novels represent- ing a 1929 mill strike in Gastonia...

..., John Steinbeck, Charles Kuralt, Jane Smiley, and Sarah Vowell deploy synecdoche to conjure a particular “imagined community.” Ending with a discussion of the life and work of Lionel Trilling, the book concludes that a “more affectively aware criticism” might aid in what the author argues is an urgent...

... authors including Theodore Dreiser and Langston Hughes; and mythmakers like Edith Wharton and John Steinbeck. The project’s goal is to assess “the literary landscape that the reading audi- ence responded to.” “Tender Is the Night” and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Sentimental Identities. By Chris...

... that actually bears close resemblances to the traditional values of Western humanism. 444  American Literature Bibliographies and Guides A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia. Ed. Brian Railsback and Michael J. Meyer. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2006. lviii, 482 pp. $125.00. Encyclopedia of the Harlem...

... Erdrich, John Steinbeck, Carlos Bulosan, Junot Díaz, Edwidge Danticat, Tony Kushner, Alice Hoffman, Mark Bixler, and Dave Eggers. Chuck Palahniuk, Parodist: Postmodern Irony in Six Transgressive Novels . By David McCracken. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. 2016. vii, 220 pp. Paper, $39.95; e-book available...

... Sinclair, Hamlin Garland, Sanora Babb, and John Steinbeck, raising the possibility that despite massive changes in food production over the intervening decades, this prewar American archive might offer resources and warnings for the challenge of the moment. The overall failure of early...

... is included. Brief Mention 203 Bibliographies and Guides Melville’s Allusions to Religion: A Comprehensive Index and Glossary. Comp. Gail H. Coffler. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2004. xviii, 261 pp. $92.95. John Steinbeck’s ‘‘Of Mice and Men...

... poverty?—I posit that it is a question of genealogy. There are multiple ways to address this question; for example, one might begin with John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939) or Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906) to think through the exploitation of (white) immigrants and their labor or Ralph...

...) . Steinbeck John . 2006 . The Grapes of Wrath . New York : Penguin . First published 1939. Sze Julie . 2006 . Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice . Cambridge : MIT Press . Trumpeter Kevin . 2015 . “ The Language of the Stones: Literary...

... of the period. The study high- lights genealogies of American pragmatism and places this school of thought in conversation with authors such as William Dean Howells, Harold Frederic, Jack London, Willa Cather, and John Steinbeck. The Anguish of Displacement: The Politics of Literacy in the Letters...

... to remember its “forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid” in ways that upheld whiteness and patriarchy as its defaults (Roosevelt 1941a : 628). This mode of critique correctly notes that the presence of avatars like Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother (1936) and John Steinbeck’s Tom Joad, who still...