Bloom's Modern Critical Views - John Steinbeck (2008) (185p) [Inua].pdf

John Steinbeck (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) Hardcover – February, 2008
by Harold Bloom (Editor)

Series: Bloom's Modern Critical Views
Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub (T); Updated edition (February 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0791097870
ISBN-13: 978-0791097878

Each title features: - A complex critical portrait of one of the most influential writers in the world- Bibliographic information that directs readers to additional resources for further study- A useful chronology of the writer's life- An introductory essay by Harold Bloom.

Editor’s Note
My Introduction addresses itself to Steinbeck’s aesthetic limitations, even in his best book The Grapes of Wrath.
Steinbeck’s anxiety of influence in regard to Hemingway is the undersong of Edward Waldron’s contrast between The Pearl and The Old Man and the Sea.
Of Mice and Men is generously evaluated by Lewis Owens, while Howard Levant is equally indulgent toward The Red Pony.
Ma Joad, admirable matriarch in The Grapes of Wrath, is studied by Nellie Y. McKay, after which the biographer Jay Parini conveys something of Steinbeck’s marital agonies before his saving remarriage.
The influence of Moby-Dick upon East of Eden helped sink Steinbeck’s flawed novel, and is chronicled here by Robert DeMott.
Ecological Steinbeck is surveyed by the Gladsteins and by Marilyn McEntyre.
David Wyatt sensitively explores the varied imagery of light and lightness in Steinbeck, after which Morris Dickstein analyzes Steinbeck’s eminence as our fictive chronicler of the Great American Depression.