[PDF] Steinbeck Quarterly eBook

Author : Robert DeMott
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1475969503

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[Steinbecks Typewriter: Essays on His Art] collects several of DeMotts finest essays on Steinbeck... [that are] so carefully revised as to warn other critics seeking their own collected essay volume of the difference between a genuinely lapidary compilation and a kitchen midden. Illustrated with some rare photos, this collection is especially notable... John Ditsky, Choice ...Steinbecks Typewriter... stands as the most in-depth treatment of Steinbecks aesthetics, particularly in its exploration of the authors interior spaces and creative habits, elements of Steinbecks artistry which have not only been underestimated but woefully ignored. Stephen George, Steinbeck Review

Author : Robert J. DeMott
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826364284

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In Steinbeck's Imaginarium, Robert DeMott delves into the imaginative, creative, and sometimes neglected aspects of John Steinbeck's writing. DeMott positions Steinbeck as a prophetic voice for today as much as he was for the Depression-era 1930s as the essays explore the often unknown or unacknowledged elements of Steinbeck's artistic career that deserve closer attention. He writes about the determining scientific influences, such as quantum physics and ecology, in Cannery Row and considers Steinbeck's addiction to writing through the lens of the extensive, obsessive full-length journals that he kept while writing three of his best-known novels--The Grapes of Wrath, The Wayward Bus, and East of Eden. DeMott insists that these monumental works of fiction all comprise important statements on his creative process and his theory of fiction writing. DeMott further blends his personal experience as a lifelong angler with a reading of several neglected fishing episodes in Steinbeck's work. Collectively, the chapters illuminate John Steinbeck as a fully conscious, self-aware, literate, experimental novelist whose talents will continue to warrant study and admiration for years to come.

Author : Jackson J. Benson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822309949

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This collection reviews what has been categorized as the 'good' and the 'bad' of Steinbeck's short novels, looking beyond the careless labeling that has characterized a great deal of commentary on Steinbeck's writing to the true strengths and weaknesses of the works.

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 31,94 MB
Release : 1990-12-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780140144574

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John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath during an astonishing burst of activity between June and October of 1938. Throughout the time he was creating his greatest work, Steinbeck faithfully kept a journal revealing his arduous journey toward its completion. The journal, like the novel it chronicles, tells a tale of dramatic proportions—of dogged determination and inspiration, yet also of paranoia, self-doubt, and obstacles. It records in intimate detail the conception and genesis of The Grapes of Wrath and its huge though controversial success. It is a unique and penetrating portrait of an emblematic American writer creating an essential American masterpiece.

Author : Tetsumaro Hayashi
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 26,25 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0817312862

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Ten essays by the North American delegates to an international Steinbeck Congress in Honolulu, May 1990. They cover the period during which the American writer grew from a struggling regional writer to an international figure with immense production, focusing on his women characters and his well known worker trilogy. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Susan F. Beegel
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0817354875

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Exciting new essays provide an important model for ecological criticism and an enriched appreciation of the Steinbeck canon.