The Grapes of Wrath

             John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

 

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STE       Readings on the Grapes of Wrath/Gary Wiener, Book editor. (Greenhaven Press Literary Companion to American Literature)

 

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STE       John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath/(Blooms Notes) edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers. c1996

 

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Articles generally available at college libraries or through Interlibrary Loan

 

 

Visser, Nicholas. Audience and closure in The Grapes of Wrath.  Studies in American Fiction v. 22 (Spring ’94) p. 19-36

 

A discussion of politics and form in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. The writer observes that this novel raises two questions: how such politically radical novels gain access to an audience and how such novels can end and be published when the sociohistorical process with which they deal has not itself ended. He argues that Steinbeck wrote not for the oppressed or the "propertied" class but in an effort to influence "public opinion" to put pressure on the U.S. government to ameliorate the conditions of the landless migrants in California. The writer links this strategy with the closure of the novel, in which, he suggests, Steinbeck curtailed revolutionary implications arising from the narrative in order not to alienate the public opinion to which he was appealing.

 

Hochenauer, Kurt. The rhetoric of American protest: Thomas Paine and the education of Tom Joad.  The Midwest Quarterly v. 35 (Summer '94) p. 392-404

 

Kanoza, Theresa. Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath.  The Explicator v. 51 (Spring '93) p. 187-9

 

Davis, Robert Murray. The world of John Steinbeck's Joads.  World Literature Today v. 64 (Summer '90) p. 401-4

 

Timmerman, John H. The squatter's circle in The grapes of wrath.  Studies in American Fiction v. 17 (Autumn '89) p. 203-11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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