John Steinbeck /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Noble, Donald R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, [2011]
Series:Critical insights.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • On John Steinbeck / Don Noble
  • Biography of John Steinbeck / Gordon Bergquist
  • The Paris review perspective / Hua Hsu for The Paris review
  • Critical contexts
  • John Steinbeck's critical reception / Matthew J. Bolton
  • "Roar like a lion": the historical and cultural contexts of the works of John Steinbeck / Jennifer Banach
  • John Steinbeck, Frank Norris, and literary naturalism / Gurdip Panesar
  • "You're kind of untouchable": women, men, and the environment in The long valley / Cynthia A. Bily
  • Critical readings
  • John Steinbeck: the favorite author we love to hate / Jackson J. Benson
  • Tortilla flat and the creation of a legend / Joseph Fontenrose
  • Sharing creation: Steinbeck, In dubious battle, and the working-class novel in American literature / Thomas M. Tammaro
  • A historical introduction to Of mice and men / Anne Loftis
  • Of mice and men: the dream of commitment / Louis Owens
  • Come back to the boxcar, Leslie honey: or, don't cry for me, Madonna, just pass the milk: Steinbeck and sentimentality / John Seelye
  • California answers The grapes of wrath / Susan Shillinglaw
  • Steinbeck's "self-characters" as 1930s underdogs / Warren G. French
  • John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts: understanding life in the great tide pool / James C. Kelley
  • Steinbeck's environmental ethic: humanity in harmony with the land / John H. Timmerman
  • Steinbeck and the woman question: a never-ending puzzle / Mimi Gladstein
  • Steinbeck and ethnicity / Susan Shillinglaw
  • Steinbeck's war / Robert E. Morsberger
  • Beyond evil: Cathy and Cal in East of Eden / Carol L. Hansen
  • Sweet Thursday revisited: an excursion in suggestiveness / Robert DeMott
  • "John believed in man": an interview with Mrs. John Steinbeck / Donald V. Coers.