The Caine Mutiny Essays and Criticism

• Study Guide
• Group

The Caine Mutiny | Essays and Criticism

• The Caine Mutiny as a Hostile Text

  Tabitha McIntosh-Byrd is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. In the following essay, this author analyzes Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny as a 'hostile text'—a novel that resists critical and analytic interpretive strategies.

• The New American Cain: East of Eden and Other Works of Post-World War II America

  In the following excerpt, Quinones argues that The Caine Mutiny is "deeply flawed," but that this flaw lends literary interest to the work and also invites analysis of the story from a historical perspective.

• The Tergiversation of Herman Wouk

  In the following excerpt, Bierstedt faults "the conclusions to which the author of The Caine Mutiny felt constrained to come at the end of his book."

Navigate

See Also:

• - The Caine Mutiny summary and study guide in the eNotes.

Tell a friend about The Caine Mutiny at eNotes.