The Pearl / Laura Nicosia, James Nicosia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nicosia, Laura, author.

Nicosia, James, author.

Series:

Critical Insights.

Critical Insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology in literature.

Pearl (Steinbeck, John).

Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. Pearl.

Steinbeck, John.

Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968--Criticism and interpretation.

Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxvii, 244 pages).

Other Title:

Critical Insights

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts ; Amenia, NY : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. : Grey House Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

This book explores the many factors that have made Steinbeck's short novel so enduringly appealing, examining the history of the work's critical reception while also contributing new insights that have not been pursued before.

Contents:

About this volume : Steinbeck, capitalism, economics, and nature at odds / Laura Nicosia and James F. Nicosia

On The pearl : defying some critics, satisfying many readers / Laura Nicosia and James F. Nicosia

Biography of John Steinbeck / Laura Nicosia and James F. Nicosia

Historical context of The pearl : Steinbeck's vision of Mexico / Melinda Knight

Critical reception of John Steinbeck's The pearl : how a neglected novella became a classic / Melinda Knight

"So that one beautified the other" : an ecocritical perspective on character and place in John Steinbeck's The pearl / Kyler Campbell

Pearls, marlin, and small tragedies : Steinbeck's The pearl and Hemingway's The old man and the sea / James Plath

Of mollusks and men : an ecocritical approach to The pearl / Lowell Wyse

"This is the whole" : ecological thinking in John Steinbeck's The pearl / Christopher Bowman

Steps to a littoral ecology : community and nature in John Steinbeck's The pearl / Michael Zeitler

The song of inequality : sickness and wealth in Steinbeck's The pearl / Jericho Williams

"The detachment of God" : a theopoetic reading of Steinbeck's The pearl / Kelly C. MacPhail

Surrendering : Steinbeck's The pearl as an artistic failure / John J. Han

Who stole Kino's cheese? Socioeconomic determinism in The pearl / Arun Khevariya

The portrayal of "poverty people" in John Steinbeck's The pearl and Tortilla flat / Emily P. Hamburger

A comparative exploration of devaluation of women, ownership, and violence in John Steinbeck's The chrysanthemums and The pearl / Elisabeth Bayley

Culture, identity, and otherness : an analysis of Kino's songs in John Steinbeck's The pearl and Pilate's melody in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Tammie Jenkins.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-64265-312-8