Partindo das crónicas de Eduardo Mayone Dias, este artigo visa analisar a construção da imagem dos norte-americanos, utilizando contributos teóricos da imagologia, nomeadamente de Joep Leerssen e D.H ...Pageaux, Peter Firchow, entre outros. Serão analisados os mecanismos configuradores dessas imagens e equacionado o modo como essas imagens se poderão assumir como originais ou estereotipadas, integradas numa visão estereotipada enraizada no imaginário cultural da época.
The American road narrative as a genre has had little consideration in the academic context. Those narratives were most of the time studied in a fixed way, linked to spiritual and internal journeys ...rather than actually analyzing the relationship between humans and the space they were travelling on. Similarly, the environment had scant consideration in literary works as well as in the academic debate at least until the nineties. The aim of this article is to provide an analysis of an American road narrative through an ecocritical and space-oriented approach, trying thus to display what is the relationship between humans and the environment within this specific American genre. This will lead to new insights on aspects of mobility/movement and place/space, being the latter not only strongly linked to the American road trip, but also representing important features in American history and culture. The American road narrative chosen for this analysis is John Steinbeck‟s Travels with Charley: In Search of America (1962), the result of the author‟s travels in his own country.
This biography offers unique insight into the life of John Steinbeck that details his incredible hunger for telling stories, his experience with the Great Depression, and the works that shaped him.
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This paper employs Kecskes’ socio-cognitive approach to analyze the varied speech styles and cognitive dynamics of the
Chinese character (Lee) in John Steinbeck’s
East of Eden
. The ...discussion of the novelistic dialogue segments has shown that
the Chinese interlocutor’s verbal strategies vary from pidgin to English or a combination of the two, which are predominantly
hearer-centered and marked by deliberate and conscious attempts on the part of the speaker to meet the cooperation principle. Lee’s movement
between different communication modes is partly predetermined by the disparate power relations between the interlocutors and partly
determined by his own communicative needs, thus producing a unique pattern that governs his language use in the given intercultural
communicative process. In particular, pidgin is used as a self-protection mechanism, a buffer and a way of identification by the Chinese
character, which informs the wider socio-historical context of Chinese immigrants’ victimization of racial discrimination in the American
society at the turn of the twentieth century. Just like his shifting verbal strategies in intercultural communication, Lee’s cultural
identity is also characterized by fluidity in the in-between space of two cultures.
"Pyle and Gilbert engage imaginatively with Malory's material in order to offer the Morte as an example to children," she argues, "specifically boys, by reformulating its martial adventures to ...emphasise a series of social and moral qualities linked to the development of idealized manhood" (57). The third chapter focuses almost exclusively on T. H. White and his The Once and Future King series (1938–41). Since this is one of the better-known children's classics within Arthuriana, it makes sense that McCausland would devote so much time to analyzing White's process of adaptation. (99) Her close examination of White's motivations provides for a fascinating psychological reading of his characters, particularly those such as Lancelot (who tends to display significant identity and emotional issues).
This essay focuses on the numerous strays, predator species, wild animals, and roadkill that undermine land management in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939). By putting the novel in ...conversation with mid-twentieth-century animal policy, this essay argues that animal control, as both an aspiration and a set of organized practices, destabilizes human authority over animal bodies at the same time that it commits violence against those bodies. Steinbeck's animals both fall victim to and creatively challenge animal control. Furthermore, when these animals rove in and out of human communities, settlements, and structures with no regard for (or understanding of) private property, they call attention to the inherent limitations of government animal policy. If we pursue the movements of these animals by following their paths and observing the "blots of blood" on the highway, we might discover that our own bodies are just as vulnerable.
The first episode, "To the disinherited belongs the future," centers on the 1948–50 National Farm Labor Union (NFLU) strike against the Di-Giorgio Fruit Company, which is emblematic of the clashes ...between the agribusiness mediascape and farm worker resistance. Media projections of company head Joseph DiGiorgio depict a towering industrial giant, gridded agricultural fields, and bowed, subjugated workers as "an extension of his technological dominance" (p. 58). The 1974 film Fighting for our Lives, covering the UFW grape strikes, turned camera film "on the plantation masters of agribusiness" (p. 99), which would become a powerful collective bargaining tool in the mid-1970s.
Carol Henning Steinbeck, writer John Steinbeck's first wife, was his creative anchor, the inspiration for his great work of the 1930s, culminating in The Grapes of Wrath. Meeting at Lake Tahoe in ...1928, their attachment was immediate, their personalities meshing in creative synergy. Carol was unconventional, artistic, and compelling. In the formative years of Steinbeck's career, living in San Francisco, Pacific Grove, Los Gatos, and Monterey, their Modernist circle included Ed Ricketts, Joseph Campbell, and Lincoln Steffens. In many ways Carol's story is all too familiar: a creative and intelligent woman subsumes her own life and work into that of her husband. Together, they brought forth one of the enduring novels of the 20th century.
In the introduction Honeyman outlines some of the issues that arise from migraine studies: the invisibility of migraine, the misrepresentation of migraine and the culture of denial, the complications ...that pain brings to disability debates, the benefits and limitations of the social model of disability, and the difficulty of writing for children when one is no longer a child. In the United States (and in the United Kingdom), school nurses and restrooms have been withdrawn with very real consequences for migraineurs for whom an hour in a restroom may make the difference between completing the school day or going home.1 Migraineurs have a complicated relationship to food: most of us carry lists of food triggers that vary from person to person and that are often central foods in our environment, but most migraineurs are also triggered by a lack of food, which in a food-control culture means that children and teens are in constant emotional and physical conflict with the messages they receive. (Swiss physician Felix Wirtz, who compared the skin of a newborn to the tender skin, which covers an injury, appears to have been a rare exception.) The result was that it was utterly normal to undertake major surgery on babies and small children with sedation but not pain relief; to translate, they were awake, unable to move, and in pain. Honeyman also accuses authors of being far too charmed by the “aura” aspect of migraines, and what we call Alice in Wonderland syndrome (after Lewis Carroll, who appears to have had few migraines but may have been one of the people who only got aura), without realizing either how distressing it may be, or that for migraineurs this is the least important aspect of the disease.
