American Hungers
- 248 stránek
- 9 hodin čtení
Argues that poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite interest in representations of the lower classes and the marginalized.
Gavin Jones Knihy
Gavin Jones je profesor angličtiny na Stanfordově univerzitě, kde v současnosti působí jako vedoucí katedry. Jones, dříve mladší badatel v Harvardově univerzitní Společnosti učenců, je autorem děl, která se zabývají dialektem v americké literatuře a problémy chudoby v americké literatuře. Jeho publikované články se zaměřují na americkou literaturu devatenáctého a dvacátého století.
Failure and the American Writer
- 204 stránek
- 8 hodin čtení
The exploration of nineteenth-century American literature reveals that failure plays a crucial role in shaping the national experience, alongside success. Jones delves into the unconventional literary styles of this era, highlighting how these expressions of failure contribute significantly to the understanding of American identity and culture.
John Steinbeck remains enormously popular yet critics tend to dismiss his work as middlebrow and nostalgic. This study produces a Steinbeck for the twenty- first century, a thinker crucial to our understanding of issues such as climate change, growing social and racial inequality, and the relationship between the US and Latin America.