Jack London Newsletter

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017425542

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Jack London Newsletter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Leonard Cassuto,Jeanne Campbell Reesman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:32000000649337

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Jack London Newsletter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeanne Campbell Reesman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820339702

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Jack London's Racial Lives by Jeanne Campbell Reesman Pdf

Jack London (1876-1916), known for his naturalistic and mythic tales, remains among the most popular and influential American writers in the world. Jack London's Racial Lives offers the first full study of the enormously important issue of race in London's life and diverse works, whether set in the Klondike, Hawaii, or the South Seas or during the Russo-Japanese War, the Jack Johnson world heavyweight bouts, or the Mexican Revolution. Jeanne Campbell Reesman explores his choices of genre by analyzing racial content and purpose and judges his literary artistry against a standard of racial tolerance. Although he promoted white superiority in novels and nonfiction, London sharply satirized racism and meaningfully portrayed racial others--most often as protagonists--in his short fiction. Why the disparity? For London, racial and class identity were intertwined: his formation as an artist began with the mixed "heritage" of his family. His mother taught him racism, but he learned something different from his African American foster mother, Virginia Prentiss. Childhood poverty, shifting racial allegiances, and a "psychology of want" helped construct the many "houses" of race and identity he imagined. Reesman also examines London's socialism, his study of Darwin and Jung, and the illnesses he suffered in the South Seas. With new readings of The Call of the Wild, Martin Eden, and many other works, such as the explosive Pacific stories, Reesman reveals that London employed many of the same literary tropes of race used by African American writers of his period: the slave narrative, double-consciousness, the tragic mulatto, and ethnic diaspora. Hawaii seemed to inspire his most memorable visions of a common humanity.

Author : Jack London
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0826337910

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Jack London's Tales of Cannibals and Headhunters by Jack London Pdf

"Jack London's Tales of Cannibals and Headhunters" is set in the romantic and dangerous South Seas and illustrated with the original artwork and several maps.

Author : Earle Labor
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466863163

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Jack London by Earle Labor Pdf

A revelatory look at the life of the great American author—and how it shaped his most beloved works Jack London was born a working class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth, he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast—an oyster pirate, a hobo, a sailor, and a prospector by turns. He spent his brief life rapidly accumulating the experiences that would inform his acclaimed bestselling books The Call of theWild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf. The bare outlines of his story suggest a classic rags-to-riches tale, but London the man was plagued by contradictions. He chronicled nature at its most savage, but wept helplessly at the deaths of his favorite animals. At his peak the highest paid writer in the United States, he was nevertheless forced to work under constant pressure for money. An irrepressibly optimistic crusader for social justice and a lover of humanity, he was also subject to spells of bitter invective, especially as his health declined. Branded by shortsighted critics as little more than a hack who produced a couple of memorable dog stories, he left behind a voluminous literary legacy, much of it ripe for rediscovery. In Jack London: An American Life, the noted Jack London scholar Earle Labor explores the brilliant and complicated novelist lost behind the myth—at once a hard-living globe-trotter and a man alive with ideas, whose passion for seeking new worlds to explore never waned until the day he died. Returning London to his proper place in the American pantheon, Labor resurrects a major American novelist in his full fire and glory.

Author : Jay Williams,James W. Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : 53,9 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.

Author : Anita Duneer
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780817321253

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Jack London and the Sea by Anita Duneer Pdf

The first book-length study of London as a maritime writer Jack London’s fiction has been studied previously for its thematic connections to the ocean, but Jack London and the Sea marks the first time that his life as a writer has been considered extensively in relationship to his own sailing history and interests. In this new study, Anita Duneer claims a central place for London in the maritime literary tradition, arguing that for him romance and nostalgia for the Age of Sail work with and against the portrayal of a gritty social realism associated with American naturalism in urban or rural settings. The sea provides a dynamic setting for London’s navigation of romance, naturalism, and realism to interrogate key social and philosophical dilemmas of modernity: race, class, and gender. Furthermore, the maritime tradition spills over into texts that are not set at sea. Jack London and the Sea does not address all of London’s sea stories, but rather identifies key maritime motifs that influenced his creative process. Duneer’s critical methodology employs techniques of literary and cultural analysis, drawing on extensive archival research from a wealth of previously unpublished biographical materials and other sources. Duneer explores London’s immersion in the lore and literature of the sea, revealing the extent to which his writing is informed by travel narratives, sensational sea yarns, and the history of exploration, as well as firsthand experiences as a sailor in the San Francisco Bay and Pacific Ocean. Organized thematically, chapters address topics that interested London: labor abuses on “Hell-ships” and copra plantations, predatory and survival cannibalism, strong seafaring women, and environmental issues and property rights from San Francisco oyster beds to pearl diving in the Paumotos. Through its examination of the intersections of race, class, and gender in London’s writing, Jack London and the Sea plumbs the often-troubled waters of his representations of the racial Other and positions of capitalist and colonial privilege. We can see the manifestation of these socioeconomic hierarchies in London’s depiction of imperialist exploitation of labor and the environment, inequities that continue to reverberate in our current age of global capitalism.

Author : Gary Wiener
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780737769937

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Wildness in Jack London's The Call of The Wild by Gary Wiener Pdf

Jack London's The Call of the Wild became an immediate literary sensation upon publication, selling out its first print run and gaining critical acclaim nationwide. The popular adventure story follows Buck, a sled dog, whose transformation from a domestic pet to the Alpha male of a pack demonstrates defining American themes such as survival, determination, cunning, and loyalty. This informative volume explores the life and work of Jack London, with a focus on the nature-based themes of pastoralism and wildness within The Call of the Wild. It also includes a selection of modern viewpoints on wilderness and nature, allowing readers to connect the themes of the text to the issues of today's world.

Author : Kenneth K. Brandt
Publisher : Writers and Their Work
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780746312964

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Jack London by Kenneth K. Brandt Pdf

Recounting his 1897-98 Klondike Gold Rush experience Jack London stated: It was in the Klondike I found myself. There nobody talks. Everybody thinks. There you get your perspective. I got mine. This study explores how London's Northland odyssey - along with an insatiable intellectual curiosity, a hardscrabble youth in the San Francisco Bay Area, and an acute craving for social justice - launched the literary career of one of America's most dynamic 20th-century writers. The major Northland works - including The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and To Build a Fire- are considered in connection with the motifs of literary Naturalism, as well as in relation to complicated issues involving imperialism, race, and gender. London's key subjects-the frontier, the struggle for survival, and economic mobility-are examined in conjunction with how he developed the underlying themes of his work to engage and challenge the social, political, and philosophical revolutions of his era that were initiated by Darwin,

Author : Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin
Publisher : Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Kenneth K. Brandt,Jeanne Campbell Reesman
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603291811

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jack London by Kenneth K. Brandt,Jeanne Campbell Reesman Pdf

A prolific and enduringly popular author--and an icon of American fiction--Jack London is a rewarding choice for inclusion in classrooms from middle school to graduate programs. London's biography and the role played by celebrity have garnered considerable attention, but the breadth of his personal experiences and political views and the many historical and cultural contexts that shaped his work are key to gaining a nuanced view of London's corpus of works, as this volume's wide-ranging perspectives and examples attest. The first section of this volume, "Materials," surveys the many resources available for teaching London, including editions of his works, sources for his photography, and audiovisual aids. In part 2, "Approaches," contributors recommend practices for teaching London's works through the lenses of socialism and class, race, gender, ecocriticism and animal studies, theories of evolution, legal theory, and regional history, both in frequently taught texts such as The Call of the Wild, "To Build a Fire," and Martin Eden and in his lesser-known works.

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 1828 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0804715076

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The Letters of Jack London by Jack London Pdf

The standard edition of the remarkable American short story writer's letters. Published in 1988

Author : James Lundquist
Publisher : Frederick Ungar
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015012305622

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Jack London, Adventures, Ideas, and Fiction by James Lundquist Pdf

Biographical and critical study of the man who wrote "The Sea Wolf" and "The Call of the Wild.".