East of Eden : New and Recent Essays.
Meyer, Michael J.
East of Eden : New and Recent Essays. - 1 online resource (322 pages) - Dialogue ; v. 16 . - Dialogue 16. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004357891. .
Preliminary Material -- Steinbeck Knew Dad Better Than I Did / “Literary Landmarks” of East of Eden / “Mapping the Land of Nod”: The Spatial Imagination of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden / Bio-Politics and the Institution of Literature: An Essay on East of Eden, its Critics and its Time / Out of Eden: Dualism, Conformity, and Inheritance in Steinbeck’s “Big Book” / Mimesis, Desire and Lack in John Steinbeck’s East of Eden / An Image of Social Character: Elia Kazan’s East of Eden / East of Eden County: John Steinbeck, Joyce Carol Oates and the Afterlife of Cathy Trask / The Status of East of Eden in Slovenia and the Former Yugoslavia / A Paradoxical World in East of Eden: The Theory of Free Will and the Heritage of Puritanism / The Unconventional Morality of East of Eden / A Steinbeck Midrash on Genesis 4:7 / Contributors -- Index. Tom Gage -- David A. Laws -- Florian Schwieger -- Henry Veggian -- Jeremy S. Leatham -- Elisabeth Bayley -- Scott Dill -- Gavin Cologne-Brookes -- Danica Čerče -- Yuji Kami -- Bruce Ouderkirk -- Alec Gilmore --
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This volume includes one dozen new and recent essays on John Steinbeck’s East of Eden (1952). First commissioned by the late Professor Michael J. Meyer, a renowned Steinbeck scholar, the volume was originally designed to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the novel’s publication. The collection contains critical writings from a variety of literary fields. These include the biographical essay, travel essay, essays on varied themes in Steinbeck’s works, writings on critical approaches to Steinbeck and also a new essay on Elia Kazan’s film adaptation of the novel. This volume is of interest for the Steinbeck scholar, the literary critic and also the casual reader seeking new ways to understand Steinbeck’s novel.
9789401209687
10.1163/9789401209687 DOI
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. East of Eden.
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968 --Criticism and interpretation.
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
East of Eden (Steinbeck, John)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PS3537.T3234 / Z63 2013
813/.52
East of Eden : New and Recent Essays. - 1 online resource (322 pages) - Dialogue ; v. 16 . - Dialogue 16. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004357891. .
Preliminary Material -- Steinbeck Knew Dad Better Than I Did / “Literary Landmarks” of East of Eden / “Mapping the Land of Nod”: The Spatial Imagination of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden / Bio-Politics and the Institution of Literature: An Essay on East of Eden, its Critics and its Time / Out of Eden: Dualism, Conformity, and Inheritance in Steinbeck’s “Big Book” / Mimesis, Desire and Lack in John Steinbeck’s East of Eden / An Image of Social Character: Elia Kazan’s East of Eden / East of Eden County: John Steinbeck, Joyce Carol Oates and the Afterlife of Cathy Trask / The Status of East of Eden in Slovenia and the Former Yugoslavia / A Paradoxical World in East of Eden: The Theory of Free Will and the Heritage of Puritanism / The Unconventional Morality of East of Eden / A Steinbeck Midrash on Genesis 4:7 / Contributors -- Index. Tom Gage -- David A. Laws -- Florian Schwieger -- Henry Veggian -- Jeremy S. Leatham -- Elisabeth Bayley -- Scott Dill -- Gavin Cologne-Brookes -- Danica Čerče -- Yuji Kami -- Bruce Ouderkirk -- Alec Gilmore --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
This volume includes one dozen new and recent essays on John Steinbeck’s East of Eden (1952). First commissioned by the late Professor Michael J. Meyer, a renowned Steinbeck scholar, the volume was originally designed to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the novel’s publication. The collection contains critical writings from a variety of literary fields. These include the biographical essay, travel essay, essays on varied themes in Steinbeck’s works, writings on critical approaches to Steinbeck and also a new essay on Elia Kazan’s film adaptation of the novel. This volume is of interest for the Steinbeck scholar, the literary critic and also the casual reader seeking new ways to understand Steinbeck’s novel.
9789401209687
10.1163/9789401209687 DOI
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. East of Eden.
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968 --Criticism and interpretation.
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
East of Eden (Steinbeck, John)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PS3537.T3234 / Z63 2013
813/.52