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Renaissance man of Cannery Row
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ISBN: 0817380957 9780817380953 9780817350871 081735087X 9780817311728 0817311726 Year: 2002 Publisher: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press

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This portrait of one of John Steinbeck's closest friends illuminates the life and work of a figure central to the development of scientific and literary thought in the 20th century. Marine biologist Edward F. Ricketts is perhaps best known as the inspiration for John Steinbeck's most empathic literary characters Doc in Cannery Row, Slim in Of Mice and Men, Jim Casy in The Grapes of Wrath, and Lee in East of Eden. The correspondence of this accomplished scientist, writer, and philosopher reveals the influential exchange of ideas he shared with


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A John Steinbeck reader
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ISBN: 1282521071 9786612521072 0810867125 9780810867123 9780810866997 0810866994 9781282521070 6612521074 Year: 2009 Publisher: Lanham, MD Scarecrow Press

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Celebrating the brief life of a young scholar dedicated to Steinbeck studies, this collection gathers essays from various vantage points including aesthetic, feminist, ethical, and comparative perspectives. 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.


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Reclaiming John Steinbeck : writing for the future of humanity
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ISBN: 1108933483 110894518X 1108945945 110884412X Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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John Steinbeck is a towering figure in twentieth-century American literature; yet he remains one of our least understood writers. This major reevaluation of Steinbeck by Gavin Jones uncovers a timely thinker who confronted the fate of humanity as a species facing climate change, environmental crisis, and a growing divide between the powerful and the marginalized. Driven by insatiable curiosity, Steinbeck's work crossed a variety of borders - between the United States and the Global South, between human and nonhuman lifeforms, between science and the arts, and between literature and film - to explore the transformations in consciousness necessary for our survival on a precarious planet. Always seeking new forms to express his ecological and social vision of human interconnectedness and vulnerability, Steinbeck is a writer of urgent concern for the twenty-first century, even as he was haunted by the legacies of racism and injustice in the American West.

John Steinbeck : the contemporary reviews
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ISBN: 052141038X 0521114098 0511666624 Year: 1996 Publisher: New York ; Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This volume is the first to collect the critical responses of Steinbeck's generation to his many fiction and non-fiction works, as they appeared from the late 1920s onwards. The articles trace the record of Steinbeck's progress through the 1930s and go on to reflect Steinbeck's steady series of achievements through the 1960s, including his attainment of the Nobel Prize in 1967. These articles offer a means of seeing Steinbeck's writings as they were perceived by his contemporaries, whose task it was first to evaluate and interpret them for an ever-growing readership.


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Citizen Steinbeck : giving voice to the people
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ISBN: 1442268301 144226831X Year: 2016 Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield,


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John Steinbeck : A Literary Life
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ISBN: 1137553820 1137553812 Year: 2017 Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book aims to both describe and analyze the way Steinbeck learned the writing craft. It begins with his immersion in the short story, some years after he stopped attending Stanford University. Aside from a weak first novel, his professional writing career began with the publication in 1932 of The Pastures of Heaven, stories set in the Salinas Valley and dedicated to his parents. From that book he wrote truly commanding stories such as The Red Pony. Intermixed with Steinbeck’s journalism about California’s labor difficulties, his writing skill led to his 1930 masterpieces, Of Mice and Men, In Dubious Battle, and The Grapes of Wrath. The latter novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1940, led eventually to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. He continued producing such wide-ranging works as The Pearl, East of Eden, The Winter of Our Discontent, and Travels with Charley up to just a few months before his death in 1968. .

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Literature. --- Literature, Modern --- America --- North American Literature. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- 20th century. --- Literatures. --- Steinbeck, John, --- Literature --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Steĭnbek, Dzhon, --- Ssu-tʻan-pei-kʻo, --- Steinbeck, John Ernst, --- Sutainbekku, Jon Ānsuto, --- Sṭainbeḳ, G'., --- Stainmpek, Tzōn, --- Sṭenbeḳ, G'on, --- Ishtāynʹbik, --- Ishtāynʹbik, Jān, --- Steynbek, Con, --- Sṭeinabeka, Jana, --- Стейнбек, Джон, --- ג׳והן, סטיינרג --- סטיינבק ג׳והן --- סטיינבק, ג׳ --- סטיינבק, ג׳והן --- סטיינבק, ג׳והן, --- סטיינבק, ג׳ון --- סטיינבק, ג׳ון, --- סטײנבק, ג׳והן, --- סטײנבק, ג׳ון, --- استاين‌بك، جان ارنست --- ジョンスタインベック, --- ジョン.スタインベック, --- スタインベック, ジョン, --- Stainbeki, Jon, --- America-Literatures. --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- America—Literatures. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Steinbeck, John --- 1900-1999 --- Стейнбек, Жон --- Stjejnbjek, Zhon --- Stjejnbek, Zhon --- Stai̇nmpek, Tzōn --- Stejnbek, Džon --- Stajnbek, Džon --- Sitanbeike --- Steinbeck, John Ernst --- Steinbeck, John E. --- Steinbekas, Džonas --- Steinbekas, Dž. --- Staïnmpek, Tzōn --- Steinbeck, John Ernest --- Sutainbekku, Jon --- Sṭainbeḳ, Gʹon --- Стейнбек, Джон --- 斯坦倍克 --- スタインベック, ジョン --- סטיינבק, גʹון --- Schriftsteller --- Nobelpreisträger --- Salinas, Calif. --- New York, NY --- Steinbeck, Thomas --- Steinbeck, Gwyndolyn Conger --- 1902-1968 --- 27.02.1902-20.12.1968 --- Istāyin Bak, Jān, --- Sitāynbik, Jān, --- Steĭnbek, Dzhon --- Ssu-tʻan-pei-kʻo --- Sutainbekku, Jon Ānsuto --- Sṭainbeḳ, G'. --- Stainmpek, Tzōn --- Sṭenbeḳ, G'on --- Ishtāynʹbik, Jān --- Steynbek, Con --- Sṭeinabeka, Jana --- استاين بک، جان --- اشتین بک, جان --- اشتینبک, جان

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