The grapes of wrath : : a re-consideration / / edited by Michael J. Meyer.

• Superior document: Dialogue ; 7
• TeilnehmendeR: Meyer, Michael J., 1943-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Rodopi,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Dialogue 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 418 pages) :; illustrations.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; The Holograph Manuscript /; Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath as Socialist/Communist Propaganda /; A Shared Poetic: The Influence of Ricketts’s Literary Philosophy on Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath /; Fermenting The Grapes of Wrath: Distilling the Sweet Concord of Brotherhood and Positive Social Action From a Tradition of Anger and Violence /; Sacred Path: Considering “Road” as Religious Image in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath /; “He’s—a kind of a man”: Jim Casy’s Spiritual Journey in The Grapes of Wrath /; Biblical Wilderness In The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck’s Multi-layered Use of the Biblical Image /; Religion in The Grapes of Wrath: A Reader’s Guide /; “Where Is The Dust?”: James Agee’s Lost Review of John Ford’s Film Adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath /; The Joad Collective: Class Consciousness and Social Reorganization in The Grapes of Wrath /; A Seditious Proposal /; A Radical Revisioning: Understanding and Repositioning The Grapes of Wrath as Political “Propaganda” /; Dis/Locating the Radical in The Grapes of Wrath /; Monopolizing Monsters: Demise of the Family Farm and the Rise of Corporate Farming in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath /; “In Between a Past and Future Town”: Home, the Unhomely, and The Grapes of Wrath /; Steinbeck’s Civil War: War as Peace in the American 1930s /; Displacements and Encampments: John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath /; Making and Breaking Golden Rules: Adaptationist Analysis of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath /; “It ain’t kin we? It’s will we?”: John Steinbeck’s Land Ethic in The Grapes of Wrath /; Subverting Eugenic Discourse: Making the Weak Strong in John Steinbeck’s Their Blood Is Strong and The Grapes of Wrath /; Okie Outlaws and Dust Bowl Fugitives: John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Discourses of Ethnicity and Race /; “We Ain’t Foreign”: Constructing the Joads’ White Citizenship /; Breaking Bread: The Sympathetic Effects of Sharing Food in The Grapes of Wrath /; The Poetry of Folks Talkin’: Slang, Dialect, and Colloquial Diction in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath /; John Steinbeck and the King James Version: The Influence of Biblical Syntax on the Interchapters of The Grapes of Wrath /; “The Whole Texture of the Country at Once”: Steinbeck’s General Chapters in The Grapes of Wrath /; A Defense of Steinbeck’s Intercalary Chapters in The Grapes of Wrath /; A Picture and an Experience Emerge: The Pivotal Role of Chapter Six in The Grapes of Wrath /; The Grapes of Wrath and Literary Naturalism /; Naturalism and Steinbeck’s “Curious Compromise” in The Grapes of Wrath /; Re-Viewing John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9042026839
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Michael J. Meyer.

The Grapes of Wrath: A Re-Consideration is a collection of essays compiled by Steinbeck bibliographer, Michael J. Meyer, in celebration of the novel's seventieth anniversary. Following the pattern of previous books in the Dialogue series, this study presents analyses by senior Steinbeck scholars and also introduces several new voices. Issues addressed include accusations about the novel's sentimentality, speculations about its status as a work of naturalism, and questions about its experimental structure. In addition, the language and imagery of the novel, its religious overtones, and its reputation as a radical work of art are revisited with fresh insights. Because The Grapes of Wrath holds iconic stature as an American masterpiece, both scholarly and lay readers will welcome this two volume set since it includes many new avenues of approach that will encourage greater insights, deeper understandings, and further explorations of the complexities of Steinbeck’s achievements in this classic work of art.