Zaradi podrejanja slovenske kritiške misli vladajočemu političnemu režimu in sprevračanja književnosti v ideološko orodje je bila vrsti Steinbeckovih del, ki so odstopala od zaželenih političnih in ...književnih izbir, odvzeta možnost objektivnega ovrednotenja in predstavitve. Med manj znana in zaradi odsotnosti ideoloških vsebin marginalizirana dela sodi tudi Zablodeli avtobus (The Wayward Bus). Prispevek se ukvarja z najbolj pogostimi kritiškimi obračuni, ki jih je bil deležen ta roman: v slovenskem prostoru je nezadovoljstvo izviralo iz utilitarističnega pojmovanja književnosti oziroma povezovanja koncepta umetniške vrednosti književnih del z njihovim političnim vplivom, v pisateljevi domovini pa je Steinbeckova reprezentacija ženskosti in moškosti v romanu tako vznejevoljila feministično kritiško srenjo, da je pisatelja označila za mizoginista. Prispevek osvetljuje ozadja, ki so zaznamovala nastanek tega romana in kritiške odzive nanj, in na teoretski podlagi etičnega kritištva preverja upravičenost do sedaj izrečenih sodb. Končna ugotovitev je, da je Steinbeck neprizanesljiv do obeh spolov, njegov pisateljski svet pa mnogo bogatejši, kot nam ga je predstavila z ideološkim predznakom zaslepljena slovenska kritika preteklega obdobja.
This article explores the dialogue that unfolded between the noted American novelist John Steinbeck (1902–1968) and President Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973) during the 1960s. In an era in which ...many American writers and intellectuals loudly protested Johnson for escalating the Vietnam War, Steinbeck stood out as a writer who supported the president’s domestic policies on civil rights as well as his foreign policy in Southeast Asia. Drawing on archival documents held in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and the Library of Congress, the article explores how Steinbeck’s years-long dialogue with Johnson linked liberal ideals for literature and government that are more often held apart in studies of Cold War America. Ultimately, this approach reveals that the unusual bond that formed between novelist and president articulated a measure of the complexity of Cold War American liberalism itself, which in the 1960s promoted the noble cause of civil rights at home while at the same time justifying disastrous military interventions against communism in the name of “freedom” abroad.
The aim of this paper is to investigate the dialectics of depravity in John Steinbeck’s Tortilla Fla.t Critics have long debated the technicalities by which Steinbeck conveys the thematic issues ...associated with his literary works. In Tortilla Flat in particular, there are various stories that do not have a common theme or argument. Readers, we expect an argument that holds the action and centers it on the characters, the setting, and theme. This paper reveals that the issue of depravity and deprivation found in found in Tortilla Flat cannot be easily judged despite the astonishing unity which is as much thematic as structural. The characters are portrayed as innocents, primitives, irresponsible, tender, and brutal at the same time. Loneliness, idealism, and the negative attitude to property denote a love of freedom and a carefree existence that distinguish his characters. Eventually, readers would be fully justified in treating this aspect of characterization as a very realistic and insightful study of an extremely important facet of human psychology. Nevertheless, Steinbeck strives to expose an innate goodness and a deep sensation of humanity within his “depraved” and “deprived” characters. The possibility of interpreting the whole work in several ways as we could be deceived by the ending of Tortilla Flat.
In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different. -;-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent, 1961 In previous years, the summer issue of the Ochsner ...Journal has typically been a nonthemed edition presenting a collection of manuscripts representing various wide-ranging topics in medicine. The 3 original research papers present studies of pediatric bronchoscopy for foreign body aspiration, radiographic/audiologic findings in the temporal bones of patients having CHARGE syndrome, and pediatricians' confidence and behaviors in smoking cessation promotion and knowledge of the Smoking Cessation Trust in Louisiana. ...our work is for nothing if not for the many authors who now trust us to provide effective and efficient constructive reviews of their work.
This article discusses Steinbeck’s linguistic creation of Chinese personae in his fiction, which develops from the early practice of using silence in ‘Johnny Bear’ (1938) to chronologically ...progressive engagement with Chinese Pidgin English (CPE) in Cannery Row (1945) and East of Eden (1952). This change is evident from the increase of CPE dialogues in his later works and best exemplified in the turn to taking non-standard English as a key concern by investing style-shifting with stylistic and thematic meaning in East of Eden. Silence and implicatures are strategically employed in ‘Johnny Bear’ to keep the narrative suspense and broach the antinarratable subject of interracial romance and illegitimate pregnancy so as not to offend the reader. Steinbeck’s later experimentation with CPE demonstrates conformity and discrepancy with sociolinguistic observations, whilst in his representation of CPE the author uses metalanguage to guide readers towards a better understanding of this language variety and a sympathetic interpretation of the Chinese characters. Existing alongside real sociolinguistic systems, the ficto-linguistic system in Steinbeck’s fiction subtly critiques the supposedly ‘correct’ language expected of ethnic groups and skilfully denounces discriminatory racial distinctions. The author’s incorporation of Chinese presence and CPE into his writings serves the grander scheme of scrutinizing American identity and society.
Biblische Notizen Wöhrle, Jakob
Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche wissenschaft,
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Few books have caused as big a stir as John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, when it was published in April 1939. By May, it was the nation's No. 1 bestseller, flying off store shelves at a rate of ...10,000 copies a week. But in Kern County, Californiathe Joads' newfound homethe book was burned publicly and banned from library shelves. Obscene in the Extreme tells the remarkable story behind that fit of censorship, a moment when several lives collided as part of a larger class struggle roiling the nation. It is a superb historical narrative that serves as an engaging window into an extraordinary time of upheaval in America, when as Steinbeck put it, A revolution is going on.".
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