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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"John Steinbeck."”.
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The short stories of John Steinbeck
… and much-maligned talent. Scholarly interest in John Steinbeck has been distinctly minimal and even his admirers admit his artistic decline of recent years. Unlike the attention lavished upon his illustrious contemporaries, William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, the number of major critical …
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Among the Giants: Resituating the Environmental Philosophy of John Steinbeck
… emotional, ethical, and ecological principles, John Steinbeck developed a holistic ideology to describe and analyze the relationships among individuals, society, and the more-than-human world. Although he explored environmental issues with ecological insight and philosophical contemplation that …
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The Dust Dwellers: The Environmental Philosophy of John Steinbeck, Robinson Jeffers, and Jack London
… who I have collectively named the Dust Dwellers: John Steinbeck, Robinson Jeffers, and Jack London. I argue that these writers participated in a broader modernist response to the ascendancy of the Enlightenment and its manifestation in industrial progress. Furthermore, I demonstrate that the Dust …
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Road Narratives as Cultural Critiques: Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, and William Least Heat-Moon
… Nightmare, Jack Kerouac's On the Road, John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, and William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways. These road narratives engage with and critique conditions in the post-Great Depression U.S. such as the aforementioned conformity and homogenization. The central …
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Perspectives on the fiction of John Steinbeck : a critical review of two prominent Steinbeck critics, Peter Lisca and Warren French
The purpose of the study was to determine the attitudes and judgments of public school superintendents in the State of Indiana in regard to the public school system and early childhood programs. Early childhood education was defined as: parent education for parents of young children, nursery school …
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The Soviet pilgrimage : American writers in Russia, 1922-1947.
… includes significant literary figures such as John Dos Passos, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Malcolm Muggeridge, Paul Robeson, John Steinbeck, E.E. Cummings, Mike Gold, Elmer Rice, Lillian Hellman, Theodore Dreiser, Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Edmund Wilson, Erskine Caldwell, Waldo Frank, …
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The grapes of wrath : sculpture as socio-political critique in South Africa
The title is borrowed from the classic novel by John Steinbeck published in 1939¹. It is a story that ostensibly concerns the Joad 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 …
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Finding Steinbeck's Utopia in Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat
My thesis will explore the idea of utopia that John Steinbeck intimates through the two novels Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row, and how he crafts his utopia in concordant Marxist, social, and ecological frameworks. These two novels possess striking commentaries regarding Steinbeck’s views on social …
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"Existential Realism: Modernism and the Ethics of Agency in the Franco-American Existentialist Tradition, 1937-1955"
… quality. Through readings of novels by John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, and Patricia Highsmith, I show how such immersive narratives invite readers to inhabit characters’ agency. These novels illuminate a dimension of character agency that has gone overlooked in the prevailing modernist …
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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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Of vice and men : a virtue ethics study of Steinbeck's The pearl, East of Eden, and The winter of our discontent
As a writer and thinker, John Steinbeck has often been ridiculed by the academic community as trite and sentimental--someone who appeals to the masses but has little to say on life's "important" issues. This study applies an interdisciplinary approach to three of his later novels--The Pearl, East …
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An exploration of characteristic elements intrinsic to the matrix of John Steinbeck's fiction and their effect on the critical reception of his work, with particular reference to a God unknown
… paradox to be found in the fact that although John Steinbeck was the recipient of some of the highest accolades ever to be bestowed upon a writer during this century, his work - and even his person - have, over the years, been subjected to severe attacks from sometimes impercipient critics. !n …