John Steinbeck and His Contemporaries

Synopsis

Pt. 1. Steinbeck And Literary Influences -- 1. The Influence Of Sir Thomas Malory's 'morte D'arthur' On John Steinbeck / Stephen K. George -- 2. Being In It Myself : Echoes Of Fielding In Steinbeck's 'east Of Eden' / Barbara A. Heavilin -- 3. Steinbeck's 'to A God Unknown' And 'the Grapes Of Wrath' From The Perspective Of Whitman's Song Of Myself / Yuji Kami -- 4. Limited Lives In Steinbeck And Jewett / Rosalie Murphy Baum -- Pt. 2. Steinbeck, Hemingway, Faulkner, And Cather -- 5. Rivals And Revelry : Hemingway And His Contemporary Literary Scene / Valerie Hemingway -- 6. Steinbeck, Hemingway, And The Nobel Prize / Stephen L. Tanner -- 7. Surrendering To The Feminine : Implied Author Compassion In The Chrysanthemums And Hills Like White Elephants / Stephen K. George -- 8. John Steinbeck And Ernest Hemingway's Attitudes Towards Otherness / Reinaldo Silva -- 9. The Unspoken Heritage : The Influence Of Family In Steinbeck And Faulkner / Eric D'evegnee --^ 10. Faulkner And Steinbeck : Thematic And Stylistic Resonance In The Early Stories / Mimi Reisel Gladstein -- 11. Steinbeck And Cather : The Divergent Religious Visions / John J. Han -- 12. John Steinbeck And Willa Cather : Almost On Speaking Terms / John Ditsky -- Pt. 3. Steinbeck, Ethnicity, And Ethics -- 13. Reading The Character Of Crooks In 'of Mice And Men' : A Black Writer's Perspective / Charles Johnson -- 14. The Possibilities Of The Grotesque In Steinbeck's 'of Mice And Men' And Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God' / Joelle Moen -- 15. John Steinbeck And Zora Neale Hurston As Folklorists / Thomas E. Barden -- 16. Victimized Wives In Steinbeck's The Chrysanthemums And Alice Walker's Really, Doesn't Crime Pay? / Kiyoshi Nakayama -- 17. Into The Heart Of Darkness : Travels With Sinclair And John / Sally E. Parry -- 18. John Steinbeck's Parsing Of The Ethical Imperative : Respect Persons / Patrick K. Dooley --^ 19. The Quest For Authenticity : The Moral Philosophies Of Steinbeck And Kristensen / Nina Rosenstand -- 20. Embedded Care, Embedded Harm : Challenges To Caring In Steinbeck And Morrison / Patrick Shade -- 21. There Is One Story : Good And Evil In Steinbeck's 'east Of Eden' And Morrison's 'sula' / Barbara A. Heavilin -- 22. Moral Issues In The Fiction Of John Steinbeck And Charles Johnson / Richard E. Hart -- Pt. 4. Steinbeck, The Arts, And The World -- 23. A Map Of The Countryside : Elia Kazan And John Steinbeck / Janine Gilbert -- 24. Flies Conquer The Flypaper : Learning To Fight The Nazis In Hollywood's Adaptation Of 'the Moon Is Down' / Robert L. Mclaughlin -- 25. Steinbeck, Rivera, And Mexican Modernism / Charles L. Etheridge, Jr. -- 26. Promise And Reality In 'the Grapes Of Wrath' And 'the Big Sleep' / Joseph Allegretti -- 27. Conquering The Flypaper : Steinbeck, Shostakovich, And Yevtushenko On War / Harriet Rafter --^ 28. Makers Of Myths : John Steinbeck And Frank Hardy / Danica Cerce -- 29. John Steinbeck And Munshi Premchand : Some Striking Parallels And Contrasts / Aruna Pandey -- 30. Américo Paredes's Interchapter : A Mexicotexan Counterpart To 'the Grapes Of Wrath' / Daniel Griesbach -- 21. John Steinbeck, Ecocriticism, And The Way Ahead / Brian Railsback -- 22. In Search Of A Language : Steinbeck, Faulkner, And Others / John Ditsky. Edited By Stephen K. George, Barbara A. Heavilin. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 289-303) And Index.