John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Criticism

• Steinbeck, John (Vol. 13)
  • Introduction
  • John Steinbeck
  • On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature
  • John Steinbeck: Life Affirmed and Dissolved
  • East of Camelot
• Steinbeck, John (Vol. 21)
  • Introduction
  • Prose Made of Wind and Soil and Weather
  • Mr. Steinbeck's Cross-Section
  • A Dark and Violent Steinbeck Novel
  • Christian Symbolism in 'The Grapes of Wrath'
  • A Star-Gazing King
  • Steinbeck's 'Flight': The Myth of Manhood
  • Steinbeck's America, Twenty Years After
  • 'The Pearl': Realism and Allegory
  • John Steinbeck: An Introduction and Interpretation
  • 'The Leader of the People' Reëxamined
  • 'Of Mice and Men': John Steinbeck's Parable of the Curse of Cain
  • Escape and Commitment: Two Poles of the Steinbeck Hero
  • 'Of Mice and Men': Steinbeck as Manichean
  • Of George and Lennie and Curley's Wife: Sweet Violence in Steinbeck's Eden
  • 'The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights'
  • Steinbeck's 'The Murder'
  • Paul McCarthy
  • 'I Never Returned as I Went In': Steinbeck's 'Travels with Charley'
• Steinbeck, John (Vol. 1)
• Steinbeck, John (Vol. 5)
• Steinbeck, John (Vol. 9)
• Steinbeck, John (Vol. 124)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Growth of the Family in The Grapes of Wrath
    • The Culpable Joads: Desentimentalizing The Grapes of Wrath
    • The Story of a Writing: Narrative Structure in East of Eden
    • 'And Then the Child Becomes a Man': Three Initiation Stories of John Steinbeck
    • The Squatter's Circle in The Grapes of Wrath
    • Turning Wine into Water: Water as Privileged Signifier in The Grapes of Wrath
    • Audience and Closure in The Grapes of Wrath
    • The 'Great Mother' in The Grapes of Wrath
    • Natural Wisdom: Steinbeck's Men of Nature as Prophets and Peacemakers
  • Further Reading
• Steinbeck, John
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Steinbeck's ‘Breakfast’: A Reconsideration
    • What Went Wrong? How a ‘Vintage’ Steinbeck Short Story Became the Flawed Winter of Our Discontent.
    • The Pastures of Contested Pastoral Discourse
    • Longing for the Lost Frontier: Steinbeck's Vision of Cultural Decline in ‘The White Quail’ and ‘The Chrysanthemums’
    • ‘Your Own Mind Coming Out in the Garden’: Steinbeck's Elusive Woman
    • Finding a New Jerusalem: The Edenic Myth in John Steinbeck
    • Steinbeck's The Red Pony (1945)
    • The Story Cycles
    • Sweet Violence in Steinbeck's Eden
    • The Pastures of Heaven: Agrarianism and The Emergent Middle Class
    • Raising Cain: Steinbeck's The Red Pony and the Reversal of Biblical Myth
    • The Troubled Thirties
  • Further Reading