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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Grapes of Wrath"”.
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Steinbeck's Use of Imagery in The Grapes of Wrath
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The grapes of wrath : sculpture as socio-political critique in South Africa
… family's move from the agricultural hinterland of America to the promised land of California. Steinbeck's intention is the sympathetic portrayal of the human cost of mechanised agricultural revolution. The story plots the collision of old value systems with new profit driven capitalistic drives …
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Fragments of a Man: The Fracturing of Time and Mind in John Steinbeck's East of Eden
John Steinbeck (1902-1968) is one of America’s most highly regarded authors, widely recognized for his Dust Bowl Trilogy, constituted by the novels, In Dubious Battle (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), and The Grapes of Wrath (1939). The Grapes of Wrath, in particular, brought Steinbeck fame and …
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From the tide pool to the stars : a study of the evolution of John Steinbeck's attitude towards good and evil
<p>It was the purpose of my thesis to trace the evolution of Steinbeck's view, in his non-fiction of what the conflict between good and evil consists, along with the development of this concern, and its related stylistic influence, on his fiction, in order to show that Steinbeck's major concern was …
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Public Politics, Private God: Political Rhetoric of Religious Morality in Selected American Social Novels
… have been intertwined throughout the history of the United States, starting from the Colonial period to the present. In this study, I argue that the manipulative use of certain religious morality under the guise of objectivity and universality is a threat to individual freedom and democracy. …
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Working Whiteness: Performing And Transgressing Cultural Identity Through Work
… friend Gus “playing white.” Taking on the role of “J. P. Morgan,” the two young black men give orders and act powerful, thus performing their perceived role of whiteness. This scene is more than an ironic comment on the characters’ distance from the lifestyle of the J. P. Morgans of the world; …
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The Other Vanishing American: Disappearing Farmers in American Literature, 1887-1939.
… the late nineteenth century, literary depictions of farmers borrow from the established trope of the Vanishing American' Indian to portray farmers as disappearing before the forces of modern civilization. I argue that writing about farmers from this era ought to be approached as a type of …