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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Steinbeck, John"”.
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Steinbeck's Use of Imagery in The Grapes of Wrath
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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 …
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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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Studies of the high temperature properties of graphite and liquid carbon using pulsed laser heating
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 1987.
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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
… 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 for man's …
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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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Echoes of Eliot's The waste land in three modern American novels
… Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (1926), and John Steinbeck's To a God Unknown (1933). I chose these particular novels because they exemplify widely different and distinctive echoes of the poem. Fitzgerald's use of waste land imagery is readily perceptible the most effective in defining and …