John Steinbeck and His Contemporaries (eBook)

Stephen K. George taught literature, writing and philosophy at Brigham Young University-Idaho. He was cofounder and coeditor of the academic journal, The Steinbeck Review and Executive Director of The New Steinbeck Society of America. His books include The Moral Philosophy of John Steinbeck (Scarecrow, 2005). Barbara Heavilin is the cofounder of The Steinbeck Review and currently serves as its coeditor. She is the author of numerous articles and books on Steinbeck, including John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men: A Reference Guide.

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Acknowledgments Chapter 4 Introduction: John Ditsky, Stephen George, and John Steinbeck Chapter 5 Photograph: Sue and John Ditsky Chapter 6 Photograph: Stephen George, Barbara Heavilin, and Charles Heavilin Chapter 7 Chapter 1: Steinbeck and Literary Influences Chapter 8 1. The Influence of Sir Thomas Malory'sMorte d'Arthur on John Steinbeck Chapter 9 2. Being in it myself: Echoes of Fielding in Steinbeck'sEast of Eden Chapter 10 3. Steinbeck'sTo a God Unknown andThe Grapes of Wrath from the Perspective of Whitman's Song of Myself Chapter 11 4. Limited Lives in Steinbeck and Jewett Chapter 12 Chapter 2: Steinbeck, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Cather Chapter 13 5. Rivals and Revelry: Hemingway and His Contemporary Literary Scene Chapter 14 6. Steinbeck, Hemingway, and the Nobel Prize Chapter 15 7. Surrendering to the Feminine: Implied Author Compassion in The Chrystanthemums and Hills like White Elephants Chapter 16 8. John Steinbeck and Ernest Hemingway's Attitudes towards Otherness Chapter 17 9. The Unspoken Heritage: The Influence of Famliy in Steinbeck and Faulkner Chapter 18 10. Faulkner and Steinbeck: Thematic and Stylistic Resonance in the Early Stories Chapter 19 11. Steinbeck and Cather: The Divergent Religious Visions Chapter 20 12. John Steinbeck and Willa Cather: Almost on Speaking Terms Chapter 21 Chapter 3: Steinbeck, Ethnicity, and Ethics Chapter 22 13. Reading the Character of Crooks inOf Mice and Men: A Black Writer's Perspective Chapter 23 14. The Possibilities of the Grotesque in Steinbeck'sOf Mice and Men and Hurston'sTheir Eyes Were Watching God Chapter 24 15. John Steinbeck and Zora Hurston Neale as Folklorists Chapter 25 16. Victimized Wives in Steinbeck's The Chrysanthemums and Alice Walker's Really, Doesn't Crime Pay? Chapter 26 17. Into the Heart of Darkness: Travels with Sinclair and John Chapter 27 18. John Steinbeck's Parsing of the Ethical Imperative: Respect Persons Chapter 28 19. The Quest for Authenticity: The Moral Philosophies of Steinbeck and Kristensen Chapter 29 20. Embedded Care, Embedded Harm: Challenges to Caring in Steinbeck and Morrison Chapter 30 21. There is one story: Good and Evil in Steinbeck'sEast of Eden and Morrison'sSula Chapter 31 22. Moral Issues in the Fiction of John Steinbeck and Charles Johnson Chapter 32 Chapter 4: Steinbeck, the Arts, and the World Chapter 33 23. A Map of the Countryside: Elia Kazan and John Steinbeck Chapter 34 24. Flies Conquer the Flypaper: Learning to Fight the Nazis in Hollywood's adaptation ofThe Moon is Down Chapter 35 25. Steinbeck, Rivera, and Mexican Modernism Chapter 36 26. Promise and Reality inThe Grapes of Wrath andThe Big Sleep Chapter 37 27. Conquering the Flypaper: Steinbeck, Shostakovich, and Yevtushenko on War Chapter 38 28. Makers of Myths: John Steinbeck and Frank Hardy Chapter 39 29. John Stienbeck and Munshi Premchand: Some Striking Parallels and Contrasts Chapter 40 30. Américo Paredes's InterChapter: A Mexicotexan CounterChapter toThe Grapes of Wrath Chapter 41 31. John Steinbeck, Ecocriticism, and the Way Ahead Chapter 42 32. In Search of a Language: Steinbeck, Faulkner, and Others Chapter 43 Works Cited Chapter 44 Index Chapter 45 About the Contributors and Editors