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John Steinbeck and the Critics

By John Ditsky

John Steinbeck and the Critics

By John Ditsky

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This work by a prominent Steinbeck scholar begins with a study of the novelist's early celebrity in the 1930s and 1940s. Ditsky shows that by the late 1940s there was some falling off in Steinbeck's critical reputation, and yet that was also the period in which the 'first generation' of Steinbeck critics did their first work: seminal commentary by Peter Lisca, Warren French, and Joseph Fontenrose. These critics were unwilling to accept the fact that the proletarian writer of the 1930s was a thing of the past, and that formally he had become much more experimental. In the 1960s, a second generation of critics such as Robert DeMott, Louis Owens, Mimi Gladstein and others, led by the Steinbeck Society's Tetsumaro Hayashi, began to show, if hardly adoringly, what the later Steinbeck was about. As the anniversaries of publication of the classic early works approached in the 1970s, there was a quantitative peaking of book-length criticism, accompanied by a spate of conferences in various worldwide venues. A number of anthologies of journal-published articles were published, including one edited by Professor Ditsky. The last two decades have seen new voices emerge, many going beyond close readings to apply contemporary critical methods to a writer increasingly seen as postmodernist. Steinbeck continues to stay ahead of his critics, Ditsky argues, and his readership continues to grow. This book charts the changing perceptions of his appeal will become a staple in university library collections.Professor Ditsky teaches creative writing at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, has published over 1300 poems, and has written four critical works, three of them on Steinbeck.
Product details
Number of Pages:
172
Release Date:
2000-08-01
Publication Date:
2000-08-17
Publisher:
Camden House
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1571132104
ISBN13:
9781571132109
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[email protected]
Weight:
409 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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