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Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968
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Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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1 online resource (x, 373 pages) : illustrations. |
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text txt |
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online resource cr |
| Contents |
Front Cover; TItle Page; Copyright Page; Epigraphs; Contents; Series Foreword; Prologue: John Steinbeck in the 1930s: Living Under the Gun; Introduction: The Dangerous Ambivalence of John Steinbeck; Part I; Chapter 1. Revolutionary Conservative, Conservative Revolutionary? John Steinbeck and The Grapes of Wrath; Chapter 2. Star Signals: John Steinbeck in the American Protest Literature Tradition; Chapter 3. The Novelist as Playwright: Adaptation, Politics, and the Plays of John Steinbeck; Chapter 4. Steinbeck and the Tragedy of Progress; Part II. |
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Chapter 5. Group Man and the Limits of Working-Class Politics: The Political Vision of Steinbeck's In Dubious BattleChapter 6. The Indifference of Nature and the Cruelty of Wealth; Chapter 7. ""The Technique of Building Worlds"": Exodian Nation Formation in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath; Part III; Chapter 8. Focusing on the Migrant: The Contextualization of Dorothea Lange's Photographs of the John Steinbeck Committee; Chapter 9. Participatory Parables: Cinema, Social Action, and Steinbeck's Mexican Dilemma; Chapter 10. ""Not Afraid of Being Heroic"": Bruce Springsteen's John Steinbeck. |
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Chapter 11. Retelling an American Political Tale: A Comparison of Literary, Cinematic, and Musical Versions of The Grapes of WrathPart IV; Chapter 12. Patriotic Ironies: John Steinbeck's Wartime Service to His Country; Chapter 13. John Steinbeck's Shifting View of America: From Travels with Charley to America and Americans; Chapter 14. ""Can You Honestly Love a Dishonest Thing?"" The Tragic Patriotism of The Winter of Our Discontent; Acknowledgments; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index; Series Page. |
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Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU |
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Zirakzadeh, Cyrus Ernesto, 1951-
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Stow, Simon, 1970-
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| ISBN |
9780813142043 (electronic bk.) |
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0813142040 (electronic bk.) |
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1299606202 (electronic bk.) |
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9781299606203 (electronic bk.) |
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9780813142036 (electronic bk.) |
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0813142032 (electronic bk.) |
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9780813142029 |
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0813142024 |
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