The Grapes of Wrath (2 vols.)

A Re-Consideration
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-420-2682-7
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 908 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 1805 g

Reihe: Dialogue

The Grapes of Wrath: A Re-Consideration is a collection of essays compiled by Steinbeck bibliographer, Michael J. Meyer, in celebration of the novel's seventieth anniversary. Following the pattern of previous books in the Dialogue series, this study presents analyses by senior Steinbeck scholars and also introduces several new voices. Issues addressed include accusations about the novel's sentimentality, speculations about its status as a work of naturalism, and questions about its experimental structure. In addition, the language and imagery of the novel, its religious overtones, and its reputation as a radical work of art are revisited with fresh insights. Because The Grapes of Wrath holds iconic stature as an American masterpiece, both scholarly and lay readers will welcome this two volume set since it includes many new avenues of approach that will encourage greater insights, deeper understandings, and further explorations of the complexities of Steinbeck’s achievements in this classic work of art.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Meyer, Michael J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME I

Preface
Acknowledgements
Brian Railsback: Introduction

I: THE HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF GRAPES
R.S. Simmonds: The Holograph Manuscript

SECTION II: INFLUENCES ON GRAPES
D. Cerce: Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath as Socialist/Communist Propaganda
K.A. Rodger: A Shared Poetic
M.J. Meyer: Fermenting The Grapes of Wrath
C.M. Hilger: Sacred Path
K. MacPhail: ‘He’s—a kind of a man’
A. Gilmore: Biblical Wilderness in The Grapes of Wrath
J. Clark Pratt: Religion in The Grapes of Wrath

III: GRAPES AND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS
J. Arthur: Where Is The Dust?
F. Schwieger: The Joad Collective
S. Henkel: A Seditious Proposal
L.A. Kirby: A Radical Revisioning
J. Galligani Casey: Dis/Locating the Radical in the Grapes of Wrath
R. Miltner: Monopolizing Monsters

IV: GRAPES AND THEORY
F.E. Cruz: ‘In Between a Past and Future Town’
R. Ficociello: Steinbeck’s Civil War
H. Veggian: Displacements and Encampments

V: GRAPES AND ECOLOGICAL/EVOLUTIONARY CONCERNS
J.P. Turpin: Making and Breaking Golden Rules
K. Hicks: ‘It ain’t kin we? It’s will we?’

VOLUME II

VI: GRAPES AND RACE ISSUES
A. Craig Lancaster: Subverting Eugenic Discourse
E. Royston Battat: Okie Outlaws and Dust Bowl Fugitives
S. Wald: ‘We Ain’t Foreign’

VII: GRAPES AND LANGUAGE/WORD CHOICE
H. Sklar: Breaking Bread
R.C. Evans: The Poetry of Folks Talkin’
D. Cosier Solomon: John Steinbeck and the King James Version

VIII: GRAPES AND RHETORICAL APPROACHES/STRUCTURE
D. Griesbach: ‘The Whole Texture of the Country at Once’
J.J. Han: A Defense of Steinbeck’s Intercalary Chapters in The Grapes of Wrath
M. Seligman: A Picture and an Experience Emerge

IX: GRAPES AS NATURALISTIC FICTION
C.L. Etheridge, Jr.: The Grapes of Wrath and Literary Naturalism
A. Gibbs: Naturalism and Steinbeck’s ‘Curious Compromise’ in The Grapes of Wrath

X: GRAPES AND OTHER ARTS
N. Allen: Re-Viewing John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath
M.J. Meyer: Share and Share Alike
K. Bosse: The Music of Steinbeck
S.F.S. Pardini: Steinbeck, Guthrie, and Springsteen
C.Z. Goering: Open Their Ears, Open Their Books, Open Their World

XI: INFLUENCES OF GRAPES ON OTHERS
E. Skipper: Conover’s Coyotes
K.M. Haven: ‘An away thing and a stay thing’

Afterword
Abstracts of Arguments
About the Authors
Index