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This volume includes one dozen new and recent essays on John Steinbeck's East of Eden (1952). First commissioned by the late Professor Michael J. Meyer, a renowned Steinbeck scholar, the volume was originally designed to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the novel's publication. The collection contains critical writings from a variety of literary fields. These include the biographical essay, travel essay, essays on varied themes in Steinbeck's works, writings on critical approaches to Steinbeck and also a new essay on Elia Kazan's film adaptation of the novel. This volume is of interest for the Steinbeck scholar, the literary critic and also the casual reader seeking new ways to understand Steinbeck's novel.
Contents
Henry Veggian: Introduction
Tom Gage: Steinbeck Knew Dad Better Than I Did
David A. Laws: "Literary Landmarks" of East of Eden
Florian Schwieger: "Mapping the Land of Nod": The Spatial Imagination of John Steinbeck's East of Eden
Henry Veggian: Bio-Politics and the Institution of Literature: An Essay on East of Eden, its Critics and its Time
Jeremy S. Leatham: Out of Eden: Dualism, Conformity, and Inheritance in Steinbeck's "Big Book"
Elisabeth Bayley: Mimesis, Desire and Lack in John Steinbeck's East of Eden
Scott Dill: An Image of Social Character: Elia Kazan's East of Eden
Gavin Cologne-Brookes: East of Eden County: John Steinbeck, Joyce Carol Oates and the Afterlife of Cathy Trask
Danica Čerče: The Status of East of Eden in Slovenia and the Former Yugoslavia
Yuji Kami: A Paradoxical World in East of Eden: The Theory of Free Will and the Heritage of Puritanism
Bruce Ouderkirk: The Unconventional Morality of East of Eden
Alec Gilmore: A Steinbeck Midrash on Genesis 4:7
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