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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: John Steinbeck's nonfiction revisited
  name:
    name part: French, Warren G.
    name part: 1922-2009
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  genre: Literary criticism.
  genre: Critiques littéraires.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1996
    copyright date: 1996
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 148 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Best known as a novelist - especially for The Grapes of Wrath, his heartfelt portrayal of disenfranchised dustbowl farmers in the 1930s - John Steinbeck nonetheless devoted a good portion of his literary energies to nonfiction. In this study, Warren French looks at the entire body of Steinbeck's nonfiction writing - journalism, essays, travelogues - both in its own right and in its capacity to illuminate the progress, and decline, of Steinbeck's entire writing career. The topics of Steinbeck's nonfiction evince both his personal interests and, particularly earlier on, the times he lived in. There are his dispatches for the New York Herald Tribune from the European war zone during World War II, collected in Once There Was a War (1959), and his record of the expedition to the Gulf of California with friend and biologist Ed Ricketts to collect samples of marine life (reflecting his passing interest in a science career), published as Sea of Cortez (1941). And there are travelogues: A Russian Journal (1948), his account of postwar life in parts of Eastern Europe, and Travels with Charley in Search of America (1962), recollections of a cross-country trip taken with his dog Charley, published the same year that Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in literature. In what was to be his last major work, America and Americans (1966), a collection of photographs of the country and its people with accompanying commentary by Steinbeck, the prose, though beautiful, gives the impression of a man out of sorts with the world in which he finds himself. America and Americans, French writes, shows Steinbeck to be less a witness to the powerful cultural and social changes transpiring around him in the 1960s than an elegiac vessel from the not-so-distant past.
  table of contents: A journalist at heart -- Discovering a mission -- Escape into the Sea of Cortez -- Artist as propagandist -- Once there was a war -- A Russian journal -- The quest for Zapata -- Journal of a novel -- One American in Paris -- Travels with Charley in search of America -- America and Americans -- "Letters to Alicia" -- A legacy in disarray.
  note: Warren French.
  note: Also issued online.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-142) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Steinbeck, John
      name part: 1902-1968
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Steinbeck, John
      name part: 1902-1968
    topic: Knowledge and learning
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Steinbeck, John
      name part: 1902-1968
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Steinbeck, John
      name part: 1902-1968
    topic: Knowledge and learning
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Steinbeck, John
      name part: 1902-1968
  subject:
    topic: Learning and scholarship
  subject:
    topic: Nichtfiktionale Prosa
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Steinbeck, John
      name part: (1902-1968)
    topic: Critique et interprétation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Steinbeck, John
  subject:
    topic: English fiction
  subject:
    topic: United States
  classification: PS3537.T3234 Z65 1996
  classification: 818/.5208
  classification: 930.278
  related item:
    title info:
      title: John Steinbeck's nonfiction revisited
    name:
      name part: French, Warren G., 1922-2009.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall International, ©1996
    identifier: (OCoLC)605187643
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Twayne's United States authors series ; TUSAS 662
  identifier: 0805778314
  identifier: 9780805778311
  identifier: 96171050
  record info:
    record content source: PSC
    record creation date: 960604
    record change date: 20241023124632.0
    record identifier: in00001311040
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng