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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: After the Grapes of Wrath. Athens : Ohio University Press, c1995 (OCoLC)622669989 |
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| Named Person: | John Steinbeck; John Steinbeck; John Steinbeck |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Tetsumaro Hayashi; Donald V Coers; Paul Ruffin; Robert J DeMott |
| ISBN: | 0821411020 9780821411025 |
| OCLC Number: | 30508292 |
| Description: | xi, 303 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction / Warren French -- Art for Politics: John Steinbeck and FDR / Cliff Lewis -- Steinbeck and Ethnicity / Susan Shillinglaw -- Of Mice and Music: Scoring Steinbeck Movies / Robert E. Morsberger -- The Metamorphosis of The Moon Is Down: March 1942-March 1943 / Roy Simmonds -- Three Strong Women in Steinbeck's The Moon Is Down / Eiko Shiraga -- "The Boat-Shaped Mind": Steinbeck's Sense of Language as Discourse in Cannery Row and Sea of Cortez / Kevin Hearle -- Passages of Descent and Initiation: Juana as the "Other" Hero of The Pearl / Debra K. S. Barker -- The Wayward Bus: Misogyny or Sexual Selection? / Brian Railsback -- Work, Blood, and The Wayward Bus / John Ditsky -- Charting East of Eden: A Bibliographical Survey / Robert J. DeMott -- Sweet Thursday Revisited: An Excursion in Suggestiveness / Robert J. DeMott -- Citizen Cain: Ethan Hawley's Double Identity in The Winter of Our Discontent / Michael Meyer. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Donald V. Coers, Paul D. Ruffin, Robert J. DeMott. |
Abstract:
Traditionally, the critical reputation of Nobel Prize-winning American novelist John Steinbeck (1902-1968) has rested on his achievements of the 1930s, especially In Dubious Battle (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), The Long Valley (1938), and, of course, The Grapes of Wrath (1939), one of the most powerful - and arguably one of the greatest - American novels of this century.
Book reviewers and academic critics often turned antagonistic toward Steinbeck when he no longer produced works with the sweeping reach and social consciousness of The Grapes of Wrath. He was accused of selling out, or co-opting his talent, when in fact the inordinate public success of Grapes and especially its attendant notoriety had caused a backlash for Steinbeck. As a result he became self-conscious about his own ability, and suspicious of that "clumsy vehicle," the novel. The very act of researching and writing Grapes, which occupied him fully for several years and which he had already conceived as his final book on proletarian themes, changed him drastically.
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