Steinbeck and the Environment: Interdisciplinary Approaches

✍ Scribed by Susan F. Beegel, Susan Shillinglaw, Wesley Tiffney

Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 384
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores in-depth a topic previously neglected by scholars: John Steinbeck's early continuing preoccupation with ecology and marine biology and the effect of that interest on his writings. Written by scholars from various disciplines, the essays offer a dynamic contribution to the study of John Steinbeck by considering his writings from an environmental perspective. They reveal Steinbeck as a prophet that was ahead of his time and supremely relevant to our own.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 18
Introduction......Page 22
Part One: Origins......Page 46
1. John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts......Page 48
2. Steinbeck on Man and Nature......Page 64
Part Two: The Grapes of Wrath......Page 74
3. Turning Wine into Water......Page 76
4. The "Great Mother" in The Grapes of Wrath......Page 97
5. Steinbeck's Ecological Polemic......Page 113
6. Natural Wisdom......Page 134
Part Three: Sea of Cortez......Page 146
7. Searching for "What Is"......Page 148
8. "The Poetry of Scientific Thinking"......Page 163
9. Revisiting the Sea of Cortez with a "Green" Perspective......Page 182
10. Education of Environmental Scientists......Page 197
11. The Pearl in the Sea of Cortez......Page 215
Part Four: Later Works......Page 230
12. "Working at the Impossible"......Page 232
13. At Sea in the Tide Pool......Page 250
14. 'The Scars of Our Grasping Stupidity"......Page 264
15. Steinbeck under the Sea at the Earth's Core......Page 287
Part Five: Overviews......Page 300
16. How Green Was John Steinbeck?......Page 302
17. John Steinbeck......Page 314
18. Steinbeck's Environmental Ethic......Page 331
19. A World to Be Cherished......Page 344
Bibliography......Page 356
Contributors......Page 370
Index......Page 378

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