Steinbeck ReviewPub Date : 2023-01-21DOI: 10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.2.vi
Barbara A. Heavilin, Cecilia S. Donohue
{"title":"Summoning the “Honest Spirit” of John Steinbeck: Back to Ireland","authors":"Barbara A. Heavilin, Cecilia S. Donohue","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.2.vi","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.2.vi","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"vi - xii"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43761785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Steinbeck ReviewPub Date : 2023-01-21DOI: 10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.2.0131
N. Taylor
{"title":"Steinbeck’s Debt to Irish Humor","authors":"N. Taylor","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.2.0131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.2.0131","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:An examination of Steinbeck’s “Letters to Alicia,” a series of travel essays published inNewsday between 1965 and 1967, reveals the influence of Irish jokes and humorous stories on the structure and focus of Steinbeck’s late-career nonfiction.","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"131 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47392118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Steinbeck ReviewPub Date : 2023-01-21DOI: 10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.2.0141
W. Murphy
{"title":"Ulster in Steinbeck: Steinbeck in Ulster","authors":"W. Murphy","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.2.0141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.2.0141","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Steinbeck’s work often articulates a deep familiarity with Presbyterian assumptions and values. While this is often expressed in terms of contempt or a rejection of America’s Calvinist strain, a consideration of Steinbeck’s family heritage offers a helpful lens for reading his work. Steinbeck’s Ulster Presbyterian family history shares much in common with America’s own story, and Steinbeck’s work, in particular East of Eden, might be read as an extended meditation on Presbyterianism. Far from simply rejecting that heritage, his writing reproduces its values in fascinating ways.","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"141 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48589852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Steinbeck ReviewPub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.1.0047
D. Kuehn
{"title":"\"Ugly, coarse, and brutal\": James M. Buchanan on The Grapes of Wrath and the Political Economy of Farm Labor Migration","authors":"D. Kuehn","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.1.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.1.0047","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 1940 James M. Buchanan, a future Nobel laureate in economics, wrote a book review of The Grapes of Wrath for his college newspaper in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Buchanan's review of the work of his fellow future laureate, John Steinbeck, provides a unique case study of how Steinbeck influenced young readers. This article describes Buchanan's review The Grapes of Wrath and contrasts the experiences of the Joads with Buchanan's own experience farming in central Tennessee. It then moves to Buchanan's analysis of the political economy of farm labor migration during his doctoral studies at the University of Chicago, which both echoes and contrasts with Steinbeck's work. While Steinbeck focused on the treatment of migrant farm workers who had already made their journey to California, Buchanan analyzed the barriers that prevented successful migration for poor farmers in the South.","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"47 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41845179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Steinbeck ReviewPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.1.0033
C. Johnson
{"title":"Beyond Melodrama","authors":"C. Johnson","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.1.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.1.0033","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 East of Eden is often criticized as overly symbolic and melodramatic. However, such characterizations overlook Steinbeck’s latent innovations in characterization. Rather than developing stiff allegorical figures, Steinbeck makes creative use of Carl Jung’s theory of archetypes, forming personalities that manifest psychological potentialities and transformations. In this essay, I trace the manifestations of Jungian theory across several characters in East of Eden, contrasting Steinbeck’s use of Jungian archetypes with traditional literary archetypes. Additionally, I outline how this artistic feature also displays Steinbeck’s opposition to the exclusivity of Freudian theory. If the characters and plot are viewed in the entirety of their complex Jungian influences and careful criticism of Freud, the novel is reinvigorated with creative energy that surpasses melodrama.","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46550551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Steinbeck ReviewPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.1.0001
D. Rivers
{"title":"“The Land Doesn’t Stretch”","authors":"D. Rivers","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This essay analyzes representations of agriculture, drought, and fecundity in John Steinbeck’s novel To a God Unknown in order to better understand the ways that this novel draws on, revises, and critiques regional histories of agro-industrial development in California. In particular, it explores parallels between the Wayne ranch's boom-and-bust narrative and its historical antecedents, particularly the rise and fall of California’s rancho economy in the mid-nineteenth century. Along the way, this article also examines the ways that Steinbeck’s representations of fecundity and drought reflect enduring entanglements between the cultural vocabulary of the U.S. family farm and settler colonial visions of claiming and developing fecund and malleable California landscapes. This article concludes with a reflection on To a God Unknown’s enduring relevance to contemporary discussions of water management, drought, and agriculture in the Anthropocene (the contemporary epoch of human-induced climate change), when California’s drought seasons are on track to become more regular and intense.","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45832694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Steinbeck ReviewPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.1.0100
Peter Van Coutren
{"title":"Steinbeck Today","authors":"Peter Van Coutren","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.1.0100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.1.0100","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In the second half of 2021, Steinbeck activities included news of the Western Flyer, a book on Ed Ricketts, and the publication of Between Pacific Tides. Archivist Donald Kohrs and Professor Richard Astro provided a look into Ricketts’s collection of books and papers that informed his scientific focus. There followed news of the Steinbeck Festival in Ireland and celebrations around Steinbeck’s birthday.","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43768142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Steinbeck ReviewPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.1.0110
Cecilia S. Donohue
{"title":"Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy by Nathaniel Philbrick (review)","authors":"Cecilia S. Donohue","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.1.0110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.1.0110","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"110 - 115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49236518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Steinbeck ReviewPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.1.0067
T. J. Nez
{"title":"Laborers Lost in The Grapes of Wrath","authors":"T. J. Nez","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.1.0067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.1.0067","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Readers might consider redirecting their attention from the text's critique of exploitation to focus more carefully on Steinbeck's disclosure of labor's increasing redundancy under conditions of industrialized production. For the novel situates unemployment as a result of capitalist accumulation. Through their historical exploration of the Great Depression's impact on agricultural industry in the United States, Steinbeck's interchapters specifically position a diminishing demand for labor as an entailment of capital's accelerated investment in machinery.","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"67 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44367588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}