John Steinbeck's short stories
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
Series: Bloom's modern critical interpretations
Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9781604132717
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Harold Bloom; title: The god in the darkness: a study of John Steinbeck and D. H. Lawrence / Richard F. Peterson; title: The red pony: commitment and quest / Louis Owens; title: The red pony: "the desolation of loss" / John H. Timmerman; title: A search for meaning in "Flight" / Robert M. Benton; title: "The chrysanthemums": Steinbeck's pygmalion / Susan Shillinglaw; title: Longing for the lost frontier: Steinbeck's vision of cultural decline in "The white quail" and "The chrysanthemums" / Christopher S. Busch; title: "Your own mind coming out in the garden": Steinbeck's elusive woman / John Ditsky; title: Faulkner and Steinbeck: thematic and stylistic resonance in the early stories / Mimi Reisel Gladstein; title: "Surrendering to the feminine": implied author compassion in "The chrysanthemums" and "Hills like white elephants" / Stephen K. George; title: Lonely ladies and landscapes: a comparison of John Steinbeck's "The white quail" and Eudora Welty's "A curtain of green" / Charlotte Cook Hadella.