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A political companion to John Steinbeck /
Though he was a recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature, American novelist John Steinbeck (1902-1968) has frequently been censored. Even in the twenty-first century, nearly ninety years after his work first appeared in print, Steinbeck's novels, stories, and play...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Political companions to great American authors.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue : John Steinbeck in the 1930s : Living Under the Gun
- Introduction : The Dangerous Ambivalence of John Steinbeck
- Steinbeck as Social Critic. Revolutionary Conservative, Conservative Revolutionary? : John Steinbeck and The Grapes of Wrath ; Star Signals : John Steinbeck in the American Protest Literature Tradition ; The Novelist as Playwright : Adaptation, Politics, and the Plays of John Steinbeck ; Steinbeck and the Tragedy of Progress
- The Cultural Roots of Steinbeck’s Political Vision. Group Man and the Limits of Working-Class Politics : The Political Vision of Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle ; The Indifference of Nature and the Cruelty of Wealth ; "The Technique of Building Worlds" : Exodian Nation Formation in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
- Steinbeck in American Political Culture. Focusing on the Migrant : The Contextualization of Dorothea Lange's Photographs of the John Steinbeck Committee ; Participatory Parables : Cinema, Social Action, and Steinbeck's Mexican Dilemma ; "Not Afraid of Being Heroic" : Bruce Springsteen's John Steinbeck ; Retelling an American Political Tale : A Comparison of Literary, Cinematic, and Musical Versions of The Grapes of Wrath
- John Steinbeck : Ambivalent American?. Patriotic Ironies : John Steinbeck's Wartime Service to His Country ; John Steinbeck's Shifting View of America : From Travels with Charley to America and Americans ; "Can You Honestly Love a Dishonest Thing?" : The Tragic Patriotism of The Winter of Our Discontent.