Contributor
Swisher, Clarice, 1933-
Imprint:San Diego : Greenhaven Press, 1996.
Description192 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:How six short novels came to be / John Steinbeck. - John Steinbeck's authentic characters / Joseph Warren Beach. - John Steinbeck's naturalism / Charles Child Walcutt. - Escape and commitment in John Steinbeck's heroes / Peter Lisca. - John Steinbeck: a successful failure / R.W.B. Lewis. - John Steinbeck's paisano knights / Charles R. Metzger. - John Steinbeck's myth of manhood / Dan Vogel. - John Steinbeck's mature style in The Red Pony / Harry Thornton Moore. - Oneness and mysticism in The Red Pony / Arnold L. Goldsmith. - Jody's growing awareness in The Red Pony / Warren French. - The allegory of The Pearl / Harry Morris. -The parable of The Pearl / Howard Levant. - Symbolic creatures in The Pearl / Martha Heasley Cox. - Attitudes toward the poor in Of Mice and Men / Edwin Berry Burgum. - Patterns that make meaning in Of Mice and Men / Peter Lisca. - Of Mice and Men: a knight dismounted and a dream ended / Warren French. - Christian symbolism in The Grapes of Wrath / Martin Shockley. - Artistic and thematic structure in The Grapes of Wrath / J.P. Hunter. - Indestructible women in The Grapes of Wrath / Mimi Reisel Gladstein. - John Steinbeck's call to conversion in The Grapes of Wrath / Stephen Railton. - John Steinbeck awarded the Nobel Prize in literature / Carl E. Rallyson Jr.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-186) and index.
