Critical Essays On Jack London

Author : Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin
Publisher : Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003957227

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Critical Essays on Jack London by Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin Pdf

Contains five original essays, three translations of articles originally published in French and reprinted criticism from major critics. Apart from one biographical essay and one review of major biographies, the essays provide critical insights into London's achievement, from the factual account of his use of plots bought from Sinclair Lewis to Robert Forrey's psychosexual analysis of "The Sea-Wolf" and from Francis Lacassin's search for the origins of "The Sea Rover" to Earle Labor's archetypal interpretations of London's stories. The section "Notes and Documents," comments on editors and literary critics, provides information on London's opinions, methods of composition and poetic talent.

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781387079469

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Love of Life & Other Stories by Jack London Pdf

Jack London was one of the first writers to earn a living in part from his writings in commercial fiction magazines. London's writings reflect the change in his political views. He is best known for his novels The Call of the Wild and White Fang. Stories in this collection include LOVE OF LIFE, A DAY'S LODGING, THE WHITE MAN'S WAY, THE STORY OF KEESH, THE UNEXPECTED, BROWN WOLF, THE SUN-DOG TRAIL, NEGORE, and THE COWARD, LOVE OF LIFE (excerpt) ""This out of all will remain - They have lived and have tossed: So much of the game will be gain, Though the gold of the dice has been lost."" THEY limped painfully down the bank, and once the foremost of the two men staggered among the rough-strewn rocks. They were tired and weak, and their faces had the drawn expression of patience which comes of hardship long endured. They were heavily burdened with blanket packs which were strapped to their shoulders. Head- straps, passing across the forehead, helped support these packs...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1587658216

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Jack London by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Chelsea House Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 160413366X

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Jack London by Harold Bloom Pdf

A collection of critical essays discuss the works of the American author who specialized in the relationship between humans and nature.

Author : Susan Nuernberg
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313289279

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The Critical Response to Jack London by Susan Nuernberg Pdf

This volume contains the key pieces of criticism on London's major works arranged chronologically to reconstruct the literary debate on London's work from earliest reviews to recent analyses. The essays contained here show how the perception of London's ideas and concerns have evolved throughout the 20th century to reflect the changes in American ethos itself. Jack London continues to be one of America's most popular writers. While most critics have ignored him or underestimated his contribution to American letters for that reason, this anthology shows that some of the best minds of the 20th century have regarded London's work highly. This volume contains the key pieces of criticism on London's major works arranged chronologically to reconstruct the literary debate on London's work from earliest reviews to recent analyses. The essays contained here show how the perception of London's ideas and concerns has evolved throughout the 20th century to reflect the changes in the American ethos itself. London represents the American spirit which views life as dynamic rather than static, changing rather than stable. His philosophy of life was broad to the extent of including contradictions, not narrow and harmonious with the selective ideas of an ideology. He has been the best-selling American writer throughout the world, and has been translated more extensively than any other American or English novelist of the 20th century.

Author : Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135314170

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Reader's Guide to Literature in English by Mark Hawkins-Dady Pdf

Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.

Author : Leonard Cassuto,Jeanne Campbell Reesman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804735166

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Rereading Jack London by Leonard Cassuto,Jeanne Campbell Reesman Pdf

Jack London has long been recognized as one of the most colorful figures in American literature. He is America’s most widely translated author (into more than eighty languages), and although his works have been neglected until recently by academic critics in the United States, he is finally winning recognition as a major figure in American literary history. The breadth and depth of new critical study of London’s work in recent decades attest to his newfound respectability. London criticism has moved beyond a traditional concerns of realism and naturalism as well as beyond the timeworn biographical focus to engage such theoretical approaches as race, gender, class, post-structuralism, and new historicism. The range and intellectual energy of the essays collected here give the reader a new sense of London’s richness and variety, especially his treatment of diverse cultures. Having in the past focused more on London’s personal "world,” we are now afforded an opportunity to look more closely at his art and the numerous worlds it uncovers.

Author : Jay Williams
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496223043

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Author Under Sail by Jay Williams Pdf

In Author Under Sail: The Imagination of Jack London, 1902–1907, Jay Williams explores Jack London’s necessity to illustrate the inner workings of his vast imagination. In this second installment of a three-volume biography, Williams captures the life of a great writer expressed though his many creative works, such as The Call of the Wild and White Fang, as well as his first autobiographical memoir, The Road, some of his most significant contributions to the socialist cause, and notable uncompleted works. During this time, London became one of the most famous authors in America, perhaps even the author with the highest earnings, as he prepared to become an equally famous international writer. Author Under Sail documents London’s life in both a biographical and writerly fashion, depicting the importance of his writing experiences as his career followed a trajectory similar to America’s from 1876 to 1916. The underground forces of London’s narratives were shaped by a changing capitalist society, media outlets, racial issues, increases in women’s rights, and advancements in national power. Williams factors in these elements while exploring London’s deeply conflicted relationship with his own authorial inner life. In London’s work, the imagination is figured as a ghost or as a ghostlike presence, and the author’s personas, who form a dense population among his characters, are portrayed as haunted or troubled in some way. Along with examining the functions and works of London’s exhaustive imagination, Williams takes a critical look at London’s ability to tell his stories to wide arrays of audiences, stitching incidents together into coherent wholes so they became part of a raconteur’s repertoire. Author Under Sail provides a multidimensional examination of the life of a crucial American storyteller and essayist.

Author : Susan Nuernberg
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015034924210

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The Critical Response to Jack London by Susan Nuernberg Pdf

This volume contains the key pieces of criticism on London's major works arranged chronologically to reconstruct the literary debate on London's work from earliest reviews to recent analyses. The essays contained here show how the perception of London's ideas and concerns have evolved throughout the 20th century to reflect the changes in American ethos itself. Jack London continues to be one of America's most popular writers. While most critics have ignored him or underestimated his contribution to American letters for that reason, this anthology shows that some of the best minds of the 20th century have regarded London's work highly. This volume contains the key pieces of criticism on London's major works arranged chronologically to reconstruct the literary debate on London's work from earliest reviews to recent analyses. The essays contained here show how the perception of London's ideas and concerns has evolved throughout the 20th century to reflect the changes in the American ethos itself. London represents the American spirit which views life as dynamic rather than static, changing rather than stable. His philosophy of life was broad to the extent of including contradictions, not narrow and harmonious with the selective ideas of an ideology. He has been the best-selling American writer throughout the world, and has been translated more extensively than any other American or English novelist of the 20th century.

Author : María Eugenia & Díaz
Publisher : Universidad de Salamanca
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8478008519

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Critical essays on the mith of the american Adam by María Eugenia & Díaz Pdf

Author : Eric Miles Williamson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123274461

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Oakland, Jack London, and Me by Eric Miles Williamson Pdf

Acclaimed novelist, editor, and critic Eric Miles Williamson, with the publication of his first book of nonfiction, establishes himself as one of the premier critics of his generation. There is no other book that resembles Oakland, Jack London, and Me. The parallels between the lives of Jack London and Eric Miles Williamson are startling: Both grew up in the same waterfront ghetto of Oakland, California; neither knew who his father was; both had insane mothers; both did menial jobs as youths and young men; both spent time homeless; both made their treks to the Northlands; both became authors; and both cannot reconcile their attitudes toward the poor, what Jack London calls "the people of the abyss." With this as a premise, Williamson examines not only the life and work of Jack London, but his own life and attitudes toward the poor, toward London, Oakland, culture and literature. A blend of autobiography, criticism, scholarship, and polemic, Oakland, Jack London, and Me is a book written not just for academics and students. Jack London remains one of the best-selling American authors in the world, and Williamson's Oakland, Jack London, and Me is as accessible as any of the works of London, his direct literary forbear and mentor.

Author : E.L. Doctorow
Publisher : Random House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780307799777

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Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution: by E.L. Doctorow Pdf

The bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ragtime and Billy Bathgate has compiled his first collection of essays, a richly textured and detailed combination of literary criticism, political invective, and historical meditation.

Author : Jack London
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 4763 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547760917

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The Works of Jack London: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs & Essays by Jack London Pdf

This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. His amazing life experience also includes being an oyster pirate, railroad hobo, gold prospector, sailor, war correspondent and much more. He wrote adventure novels & sea tales, stories of the Gold Rush, tales of the South Pacific and the San Francisco Bay area - most of which were based on or inspired by his own life experiences. Content: The Cruise of the Dazzler A Daughter of the Snows The Call of the Wild The Kempton-Wace Letters The Sea-Wolf The Game White Fang Before Adam The Iron Heel Martin Eden Burning Daylight Adventure The Scarlet Plague A Son of the Sun The Abysmal Brute The Valley of the Moon The Mutiny of the Elsinore The Star Rover The Little Lady of the Big House Jerry of the Islands Michael, Brother of Jerry Hearts of Three Son of the Wolf The God of His Fathers Children of the Frost The Faith of Men Tales of the Fish Patrol Moon-Face Love of Life Lost Face South Sea Tales When God Laughs The House of Pride & Other Tales of Hawaii Smoke Bellew The Night Born The Strength of the Strong The Turtles of Tasman The Human Drift The Red One On the Makaloa Mat Dutch Courage Uncollected Stories The Road The Cruise of the Snark John Barleycorn The People of the Abyss Theft Daughters of the Rich The Acorn-Planter A Wicked Woman The Birth Mark The First Poet Scorn of Woman Revolution and Other Essays The War of the Classes What Socialism Is What Communities Lose by the Competitive System Through The Rapids on the Way to the Klondike From Dawson to the Sea Our Adventures in Tampico With Funston's Men The Joy of Small Boat Sailing Husky, Wolf Dog of the North The Impossibility of War...

Author : Jay Williams,James W. Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199315178

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The Oxford Handbook of Jack London by Jay Williams,James W. Williams Pdf

"With his novels, journalism, short stories, political activism, and travel writing, Jack London established himself as one of the most prolific and diverse authors of the twentieth century. Covering London's biography, cultural context, and the various genres in which he wrote, The Oxford Handbook of Jack London is the definitive reference work on the author" --

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410335562

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A Study Guide for Jack London's The Call of the Wild by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Jack London's "The Call of the Wild," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.