In the late 1930s, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, and Ernest Hemingway wrote novels that won critical acclaim and popular success: The Grapes of Wrath, Native Son, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. All ...three writers were involved with the Left at the time, and that commitment informed their fiction. Milton Cohen examines their motives for involvement with the Left; their novels' political themes; and why they separated from the Left after the novels were published. These writers were deeply conflicted about their political commitments, and Cohen explores the tensions that arose between politics and art, resulting in the abandonment of a political attachment.
Erscheint auch als: Demonstrating the power a single author can have on generations of individuals around the world, Citizen Steinbeck enables readers to make sense of both the past and the present ...through the prism of this literary icon's inspirational work.
Celebrating the all-too-brief life of a young scholar dedicated to Steinbeck studies, A John Steinbeck Reader: Essays in Honor of Stephen K. George gathers essays from various vantage points ...including aesthetic, feminist, ethical, and comparative perspectives. Under the direction of Barbara A. Heavilin, George's coeditor of The Steinbeck Review journal and the book, John Steinbeck and His Contemporaries, the authors of these articles have come together both to pay tribute to Stephen and to widen the range of Steinbeck scholarship. Included in this volume are works by two acclaimed poets, as well as insightful readings of a little known early short story and an unsuccessful novel by Steinbeck. In addition to George, who is represented here with an essay on societal ethics, and Heavilin, who writes about Travels with Charley, the contributors to this volume include: Mary Brown, Danica Cerce, Mimi Gladstein, Charlotte Hadella, Tetsumaro Hayashi, Luchen Li, Michael J. Meyer, Kyoshi Nakayama, Brian Railsback, Thom Satterlee, Stephen L. Tanner, and John H. Timmerman. Designed for both a general and a professional audience, this collection will delight the Steinbeck buff, enlighten the Steinbeck student, and provides an array of topics, views, and approaches for Steinbeck scholars and teachers. While acknowledging one of its most devoted scholars, A John Steinbeck Reader will also be a welcome addition to the wealth of Steinbeck studies.
East of Eden Meyer, Michael J; Veggian, Henry
2013, Letnik:
16
eBook
This volume includes one dozen new and recent essays on John Steinbeck's East of Eden (1952). First commissioned by the late Professor Michael J. Meyer, a renowned Steinbeck scholar, the volume was ...originally designed to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the novel's publication. The collection contains critical writings from a variety of literary fields. These include the biographical essay, travel essay, essays on varied themes in Steinbeck's works, writings on critical approaches to Steinbeck and also a new essay on Elia Kazan's film adaptation of the novel. This volume is of interest for the Steinbeck scholar, the literary critic and also the casual reader seeking new ways to understand Steinbeck's novel.
Bu çalışma, dünya çapında romancılığıyla tanınan John Steinbeck’in (1902-1968) daha az bilinen gazeteci kimliğini ele almaktadır. Steinbeck, Büyük Buhran dönemi romanları başta olmak üzere ...kendisini üne kavuşturan eserlerini vermeden önce yıllarca çeşitli gazetelerde muhabirlik yapmış, edebi yeteneğiyle gazetecilik pratiğini birleştirerek nitelikli eserler vermiş edebi röportaj türünün önde gelen temsilcilerindendir. İhmal edilmiş konulardan ve detaylardan yola çıkarak özgün hikayeler anlatmayı ve olayların özüne inerek sıradan insanların hayatlarına dokunmayı başarmış bir gazeteci ve yazar olarak Steinbeck’in metinlerinin, günümüzde içerikten yoksun, standartlaşmış habercilik karşısında bir alternatif olarak öne çıkan özgün içerik üretme ve hikaye anlatma konusunda örnek oluşturabileceği düşünülmektedir. Bu amaçla çalışmada, Steinbeck’in, gazeteci kimliğinin ön plana çıktığı ve edebi röportaj türünün seçkin örnekleri arasında yer alan İkinci Dünya Savaşı’nın arka planını anlattığı Bir Savaş Vardı ve Amerikan toplumuna dair gözlemlerini aktardığı Köpeğim Charley ile Amerika Yollarında eserleri incelenmiştir. Betimsel olarak analiz edilen bu iki metnin edebi gazeteciliğin, yazarın bizzat olayın içinde olduğu, tanıklığa dayanan ve sıradan insanlar ile küçük detaylardan yola çıkarak hayata dokunan özgün hikayeler anlatmaya imkan tanıyan özelliklerini taşıdığı görülmüştür. Steinbeck’in gazeteciliğini günümüzde alternatif gazeteciliğin tanımı ve örneği olarak sunulan ve iletişim teknolojilerinin avantajlarıyla geliştirilmeye çalışılan birçok haber formatı ve pratiğinin ilk örneklerini oluşturduğu ve gazeteciliğin güncel konu ve sorunlarına kaynaklık edecek derin bir potansiyel barındırdığı sonucuna varılmıştır.
This study aims to scrutinize the lesser-known journalist identity of John Steinbeck (1902-1968), who has a global reputation as a novelist. Before producing his works including the Great Depression novels that led him to fame, Steinbeck was among the prominent representatives of the literary reportage genre, as he was worked as a reporter for various newspapers and combined his literary talent with journalistic practice. As a journalist and a writer who managed to touch the lives of ordinary people by getting at the heart of the events and telling unique stories on neglected issues and details, Steinbeck’s texts can be considered as an example of unique content production and storytelling, which constitute an alternative for today’s standardized news reporting devoid of content. For this purpose, this paper analyses Steinbeck’s two works, which foreground his identity as a journalist and are among the outstanding examples of the literary reportage genre: Once There Was a War, in which he narrates the background of World War II, and Travels with Charley: In Search of America, in which he conveys his observations on the United States society. As a result of thematic analysis, it is observed that these texts provide the opportunity to narrate unique life-touching stories based on testimonies and by proceeding with ordinary people and details. In sum, Steinbecks’ journalism constitutes the initial examples of many news formats and practices, which have later been defined and promoted as alternative journalism and developed further through communication technologies, and promises a significant potential that can offer solutions to the contemporary issues in journalism.
This article is an effort to bring into light the theme of American Dream for the betterment of individual characters in John Steinbeck's novels. It is the natural inclination of all humans to dream. ...Here the American dream is sought after by many different characters. The main theme is, how these dreams are unattainable and how because of great depression all American dreams were dead. However, the meaning of living American dream is something that differs for everyone. For some people, the American dream might be acceptance and equality. The American dream was no more, and the land of opportunity had become the land of misfortune. It is the idea of an individual overcoming all obstacles and beating all odds to become successful one day. This subject is the predominant theme in John Steinbeck's novels. Keywords: Steinbeck, despair, self-hatred, egotism, appetites, mundanity, wilderness, steadfastness, obstacles.
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.
PDF
