Explores the imaginative, creative, and sometimes neglected aspects of John Steinbeckâ s writing. Robert DeMott positions Steinbeck as a prophetic voice for today as much as he was for the Depression-era 1930s as the essays explore the often unknown or unacknowledged elements of Steinbeckâ s artistic career that deserve closer attention.
Explores the imaginative, creative, and sometimes neglected aspects of John Steinbeckâ s writing. Robert DeMott positions Steinbeck as a prophetic voice for today as much as he was for the Depression-era 1930s as the essays explore the often unknown or unacknowledged elements of Steinbeckâ s artistic career that deserve closer attention.
Robert DeMott is the Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Ohio University in Athens. He was a founding member of the original Steinbeck Quarterly and has been a long-standing member on the editorial boards of The Steinbeck Newsletter and Steinbeck Review. A former acting director of San Jose State University's Steinbeck Research Center (1984-1985), he was awarded the National Steinbeck Center's Trustees Award for significant contributions to Steinbeck Studies in 2006. DeMott is the author of Steinbeck's Reading: A Catalogue of Books Owned and Borrowed and Steinbeck's Typewriter: Essays on His Art. He is also the editor of Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath and the Library of America's four-volume edition of Steinbeck's works.
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* Dates of Selected Steinbeck Books * Acknowledgments * Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Texts * Preface. What Went Around Came Around * * Chapter One. Half a Century with Steinbeck: A Personal Retrospect * ’John Steinbeck saved my life.’ * Chapter Two. The Place We Have Arrived: On Writing/Reading toward Cannery Row * ‘John Steinbeck was an experimental writer.’ * Chapter Three. Private Narratives/Public Texts: Steinbeck’s Writing Journals * ‘John Steinbeck was addicted to writing.’ * Chapter Four. Of Fish and Men: John Steinbeck, Fly-Fishing, and Me * ‘John Steinbeck loved to fish. * Notes * References * About the Author * Credits * Index
* Dates of Selected Steinbeck Books * Acknowledgments * Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Texts * Preface. What Went Around Came Around * * Chapter One. Half a Century with Steinbeck: A Personal Retrospect * ’John Steinbeck saved my life.’ * Chapter Two. The Place We Have Arrived: On Writing/Reading toward Cannery Row * ‘John Steinbeck was an experimental writer.’ * Chapter Three. Private Narratives/Public Texts: Steinbeck’s Writing Journals * ‘John Steinbeck was addicted to writing.’ * Chapter Four. Of Fish and Men: John Steinbeck, Fly-Fishing, and Me * ‘John Steinbeck loved to fish. * Notes * References * About the Author * Credits * Index
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