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Jacobs, Christine. "The Reawakening of Steinbeck." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1276890557.
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Simkins, William Scott. "Steinbeck the Writer-Knight." W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625595.
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Jasinski, Shawn. "John Steinbeck As a Radical Novelist." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2008. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/117.
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The radical literary tradition of the 1930‟s inspired many American authors to become more concerned with the struggle of the proletariat. John Steinbeck is one of these authors. Steinbeck‟s novels throughout the 1930‟s and 1940‟s display a lack of agreement with the common Communist principles being portrayed by other radical novelists, but also a definite alignment with several more basic Marxist principles. The core of his radical philosophy comes in the form of his interest in group-man or the phalanx. An interest that is rather uncommon for the period, as most radical novelists were more concerned with illustrating the solitary nature of the proletarian worker. Over the course of his career this philosophy evolves, as can be illustrated through an analysis of In Dubious Battle, The Grapes of Wrath, and Cannery Row. In Dubious Battle is highly critical of Communist labor organizers, and sets Steinbeck apart form the radical tradition by questioning rather than supporting their motivation. The labor organizers manipulate the phalanx in this novel, and Steinbeck leaves the reader with the impression that the group-man is being corrupted. The Grapes of Wrath is also a socially motivated novel, with an abundance of Marxist undertones, but most importantly the novel provides Steinbeck with a better medium within which he can further examine the phalanx. Throughout this novel Steinbeck remains separate from other propagandists, as he supports his own agenda rather than that of the Party. Steinbeck‟s communal exploration comes to fruition in Cannery Row. While the novel has received a relatively small amount of critical attention due to the common presumption that Steinbeck intended the work to be a diversion from war, the characters of Cannery Row provide Steinbeck with the ultimate vehicle to illustrate the importance of the phalanx. Together these novels represent the evolution of Steinbeck‟s radical philosophy, particularly as it pertains to his vision of communal existence. While this vision of collectivity is what aligns Steinbeck with the most basic of Marxist principles, the mysticism he surrounds it with is what serves to set him apart from the more utilitarian communist appreciation of the phalanx. This argument will come largely in the form of analysis of Steinbeck‟s mouthpieces, which are characters in the novels that illustrate Steinbeck‟s philosophy either through speech or action. The conclusion of the analysis will show that Steinbeck is definitely a radical novelist, even though he is sometimes at odds with the tenets of the greater radical tradition.
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Steinbeck, Anja Verena [Verfasser]. "Die Übertragbarkeit von Gestaltungsrechten. / Anja Verena Steinbeck." Berlin : Duncker & Humblot, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1238248527/34.
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Šilianskytė, Viktorija. "The Great Depression Period in John Steinbeck’s Prose." Bachelor's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2012. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2012~D_20120831_092142-74625.
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The Great Depression Period in John Steinbeck’s Prose The object of the research is the theme of the Great Depression in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men (1937), The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and The Winter of Our Discontent (1961). In the novels, the theme of the Great Depression is analyzed through different values: protagonists’ struggle to remain human, land as a value and friend as a value. The aim of the research is to reveal the theme of the Great Depression through different values in Of Mice and Men (1937), The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and The Winter of Our Discontent (1961) by Steinbeck.Steinbeck’s novels deal with the question of values, which appear to be relevant in all three novels under investigation. Nonetheless, during the Great Depression period the majority of values were pushed aside, however, values such as: friend as a value, land as a value and mans’ struggle to remain human became the most important within the period.Šiuose kūriniuose Didžiosios depresijos tema analizuojama per skirtingas vertybes: draugystė kaip vertybė, žemė kaip vertybė, pagrindinio veikėjo pastangos išlikti žmogumi. Tyrimo tikslas – atskleisti Didžiosios depresijos temą romanuose Apie peles ir žmones (1937), Rūstybės kekės (1939), Mūsų nerimo žiema (1961) per skirtingų vertybių aspektus.Visi romanai nagrinėja vertybių problemą, kuri aktuali kiekviename analizuotame kūrinyje. Nepaisant to, kad Didžiosios depresijos laikotarpiu dauguma vertybių buvo nustumtos į šoną, vis dėlto, tokios vertybės, kaip draugystė, žemė, bei žmogaus pastangos išlikti žmogumi, tapo svarbiausios analizuojamuoju laikotarpiu.
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Burri, Stella Teresia. "Silenced women of John Steinbeck's dustbowl trilogy." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1005643.
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The primary aim of this project is to examine selected works by John Steinbeck, a significant American writer. Through a close contextual and textual analysis of Steinbeck’s Dustbowl Trilogy, which consists of the novels In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath, this project will interrogate Steinbeck’s contribution to the silencing of women and their inferior placement in their society and determine the extent to which Steinbeck promotes patriarchal ideology through his literature. A close examination of the modernist era in which these novels were written will provide the method of interrogating Steinbeck’s portrayal of women’s situation during the Depression and determine whether it is a reflection of the reality of women’s situation at that time given the political and environmental factors of the 1930s. The theories of various feminist critics, including Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Gayle Rubin, Luce Irigaray, Sherry Ortner, and Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar will be explored in order to elucidate the author’s treatment of the female characters and determine the extent to which patriarchal ideology is embedded in his writing. A brief examination of some of his contemporaries, namely F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, will reveal the general treatment of women in male authored modernist literature and determine the extent to which Steinbeck’s female subjugation is representative.
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George, Stephen K. "Of vice and men : a virtue ethics study of Steinbeck's The pearl, East of Eden, and The winter of our discontent." Virtual Press, 1995. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/952814.
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As a writer and thinker, John Steinbeck has often been ridiculed by the academic community as trite and sentimental--someone who appeals to the masses but has little to say on life's "important" issues. This study applies an interdisciplinary approach to three of his later novels--The Pearl, East of Eden, and The Winter of Our Discontent--in order to more accurately assess the quality of Steinbeck's later fiction and to discover what this writer has to say concerning ethics and human nature, particularly the irrational emotions and vices.In concurrence with some of the latest research available, this study reveals that the emotions play a far greater role within the moral realm than previously believed by some philosophers and psychologists. Irrational emotions, such as extreme fear, anger, hatred, and guilt, are often sequential, cyclical, and cumulative in nature and frequently form dynamic combinations which feed on and intensify each other and which may lead to acts of violence or cruelty. Moreover, far from being uncontrollable, these emotions have been shown to have a cognitive dimension which is greatly influenced by upbringing and environment. As indicated in East of Eden, parental neglect and abuse play prominent roles in making certain characters susceptible to their own states of irrationality.The emotions are also primary to the development of more permanent character dispositions, both good and bad. As illustrated in East of Eden's Cathy Ames, a vice such as cruelty is often motivated and enabled by the fear and hatred that frequently form its core. Moreover, the vices themselves seem to be interactive and cumulatively debilitating; just as dishonesty plays a key role in enabling cruelty and loss of integrity, so does a lack of integrity make sense in a morally weak world.Thus, contrary to popular critical opinion, there was no dramatic falling off of quality in Steinbeck's writing, but rather a deliberate change in emphasis from social criticism to morality and from the group to the individual. This study confirms both the importance of what Steinbeck had to say as well as the eloquent and gifted manner in which he said it.Department of English
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Shanks, Justin Donald. "Among the Giants: Resituating the Environmental Philosophy of John Steinbeck." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/45433.
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Deeply influenced by emotional, ethical, and ecological principles, John Steinbeck developed a holistic ideology to describe and analyze the relationships among individuals, society, and the more-than-human world. Although he explored environmental issues with ecological insight and philosophical contemplation that placed him well beyond his literary and scientific contemporaries, Steinbeck’s contributions to modern ecological inquiry and environmental thought have received only intermittent attention from literary scholars. Throughout his writing, Steinbeck develops a view of intellectual holism that encourages (perhaps even enables) us to dovetail science and ethics as we attempt to construct a new environmental paradigm. Viewing the world through his holistic lens, Steinbeck was able to see the global ecosystem, local environments, human communities, and even minute tide pools as objects of scientific and artistic inquiry. Specifically, it is my contention that the American environmental movement owes a greater debt to John Steinbeck than it realizes. In short, John Steinbeck made significant contributions to the growing awareness of human-nature interconnectedness and the parallels between social ills and ecological ailments. Yet, for whatever reasons Steinbeck is not granted a position of honor alongside the other giants of American environmental thought. Now witnessing the full blossoming of 21st century environmentalism, it is useful to cast a reflexive eye upon our ideological forebears with the intent to better understand the genealogy of the American environmental movement. Doing so will not only provide a richer and fuller family tree, but will also promote additional flourishing of new approaches to solving ongoing environmental troubles.Master of Arts
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Steinbeck, Lukas [Verfasser]. "Christian Education in Tansania : Missionskatechetischer Hintergrund – werkbiographische Erschließung – vergleichender Horizont / Lukas Steinbeck." Göttingen : V&R Unipress, 2018. http://www.v-r.de/.
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Runge, Evelyn. "John Steinbeck, Dorothea Lange und die Grosse Depression Sozialkritik in Literatur und Fotografie." München M-Press, 2006. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2773324&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Kölln, Lucas André Berno. "O mundo dos trabalhadores nas obras da década de 30 de John Steinbeck." Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, 2013. http://tede.unioeste.br:8080/tede/handle/tede/1684.
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This dissertation discusses the books of John Steinbeck published in the thirties, willing to comprehend the way that the dialogue between the author's literature and his dialectic relation with the historical reality in which he wrote and lived. The analysis of Steinbeck's writings produced during the thirties made possible the discussion about the effects of the 1929 crisis and the empowerment of monopolist capitalism, processes that became very evident in this period. The conflicts present in that reality molded the historical reading of the writer and of the social group that he centrally portrayed throughout his literary production, the small farmers. Steinbeck's deep connection with the old middle classes conditioned his literature and his worldview, since the writer was raised into that way of life and educated into the typical values of that social group. This made his literature, during the thirties, unfold itself in many different ways in order to deal with the experience of the destruction of that way of life in all of its complexity. As the crisis deepened, Steinbeck faced different expressions of it, being the proletarianization of the small farmers and the destruction of the basis of their world some of the most bruising aspects that his literature intended to expose, portray and denounce. Sometimes assuming nostalgic outlines to celebrate the past, sometimes drawing on the satire to question the bourgeois ethos, sometimes rising through the denounce to reveal the scars created by the economic transformations, Steinbeck did not duck the problems placed by the development of the American capitalism. Based on this, his literature has became not only an interpretation of the reality created by the Great Depression through its mechanisms, dynamics and structures, but also the literary testimony of a person who observed the decadence of the way of life in which he grew up and of his peers. In this sense, the dissertation aimed to situate and comprehend Steinbeck's writings in their historical concreteness, that is, in the terms in which they were conceived and produced, in such a way that it became possible to observe several dimensions of the crisis and of Steinbeck's historical reading related to this experience, marked by loss, by misery and by the transformation of the small farmers into agricultural workers
Essa dissertação discute as obras da década de 30 de John Steinbeck procurando compreender de que maneira se deu o diálogo entre a literatura do autor e a relação dialética desse com a realidade história na qual viveu e escreveu. A análise dos escritos de Steinbeck produzidos nos anos 30 possibilitou a discussão sobre os desdobramentos e efeitos da crise de 1929 e do fortalecimento do capitalismo monopolista, processos esses que se tornaram muito evidentes nesse período. A conflituosidade presente naquela realidade moldou a leitura histórica do escritor e do grupo social que ele centralmente retratou ao longo de sua produção literária, os pequenos proprietários agrícolas. A profunda ligação de Steinbeck com as antigas classes médias rurais condicionou sua literatura e sua visão de mundo, uma vez que o escritor foi criado em meio àquele modo de vida e educado dentro dos valores típicos desse grupo social. Isso fez com que sua literatura, ao longo dos anos 30, se desdobrasse de diferentes formas para lidar com a experiência da destruição daquele modo de vida em toda a sua complexidade. Na medida em que a crise se aprofundava, Steinbeck travou contato com diferentes expressões dela, sendo a proletarização dos pequenos proprietários e a destruição das bases de seu mundo alguns dos aspectos mais contundentes que sua literatura procurou desvelar, retratar e denunciar. Ora assumindo contornos nostálgicos para celebrar o passado, ora valendo-se da sátira para questionar o ethos burguês, ora erguendo-se por meio da denúncia para trazer à lume as mazelas geradas pelas transformações econômicas, Steinbeck não se furtou aos problemas postos pelo desenvolvimento histórico do capitalismo estadunidense. A partir disso, sua literatura se tornou não só uma interpretação da realidade criada pela Grande Depressão a partir de seus mecanismos, suas dinâmicas e suas estruturas, mas também o testemunho literário de um sujeito que observou a decadência do modo de vida no qual cresceu e dos sujeitos que eram seus pares. Nesse sentido, a dissertação buscou situar e compreender os escritos de John Steinbeck em sua concretude histórica, isto é, nos termos em que eles foram concebidos e produzidos, ao passo que tornou-se possível observar várias dimensões da crise e da leitura histórica de Steinbeck em relação a essa experiência, marcada pela perda, pela miséria e pela transformação dos pequenos proprietários rurais em trabalhadores agrícolas
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Diouf, Abdourahmane. "Esthétique, politique et éthique : la création littéraire dans l’œuvre romanesque de John Steinbeck." Thesis, Le Mans, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020LEMA3008.
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Les œuvres de John Steinbeck ne sauraient être réduites à une sèche catégorisation d’ordre esthétique ou idéologique. On les étudie souvent à la croisée de styles bariolés qui s’entremêlent et se heurtent, pour pouvoir appréhender derrière les variétés le substratum de l’œuvre. L’enjeu de cette thèse est d’étudier le lien entre esthétique, politique et éthique en partant non plus des positions politiques de l’écrivain mais des œuvres elles-mêmes, pour analyser les manières dont ces notions peuvent s’éclairer de manière dynamique et progressive au fur et à mesure que l’œuvre se déploie sur quatre décennies. En passant du roman lyrique et picaresque au roman social (particulièrement Tortilla Flat et la trilogie des « Dust Bowl Novels » : In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men et The Grapes of Wrath), John Steinbeck laisse se construire dans son œuvre une critique politique fondée sur la remise en cause de la linéarité du discours narratif. Tout comme la forme du discours, le « contenu » narratif véhicule et développe une vision politique qui substitue au Rêve américain et son « Melting Pot » utopique, une structure sociopolitique plus réaliste où l’on perçoit « deux classes » opposées, en vertu du système de domination capitaliste. Steinbeck a re-travaillé le genre romanesque pour y laisser se développer une vision à la fois providentielle, humaniste et anticapitaliste. En mettant à l’épreuve les notions d’intrigue, de protagoniste (ou « héros ») et de temporalité, il a inscrit cette critique politique au cœur même de l’écriture, invitant ses lecteurs à porter un nouveau regard sur ses œuvres des années 1930-50, davantage « politiques », et sur les liens entre modernisme, engagement politique et écologie. Même si certains de ses ouvrages sont radicalement contestataires, il n’en demeure pas moins qu’il a eu recours constamment au mythe des origines. Ce recours aux pensées mythiques des textes américains fondateurs joue un rôle de trait d’union lui permettant de déconstruire littérairement les discours politiques dominateurs de sa sociétéJohn Steinbeck’s works cannot be reduced to a strict aesthetic or ideological categorization. They are often studied at the crossroads of colourful styles that intermingle and clash, in order to grasp the substratum of the work behind its varieties. The challenge of this thesis is to study the link between aesthetics, politics and ethics, starting not from the writer's political positions but from the works themselves, in order to analyze the ways in which these notions can be dynamically and progressively highlighted as the work unfolds over four decades. Moving from the lyrical and picaresque novel to the social novel (particularly Tortilla Flat and the Dust Bowl Novels trilogy: In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath), John Steinbeck makes it possible for a political critique to be constructed in his work based on a questioning of the linearity of narrative discourse. Like the form of the discourse, the narrative “content” conveys and develops a political vision that substitutes for the American Dream and its utopian “Melting Pot” a more realistic sociopolitical structure in which one perceives “two opposing classes”, by virtue of the system of capitalist domination. Steinbeck reworked the novel genre to develop a providential, humanist and anti-capitalist vision. By testing the notions of plot, protagonist (or “hero”) and temporality, he placed this political critique at the very heart of the writing process, inviting readers to take a fresh look at his more “political” works of the 1930s and 1950s, and at the links between modernism, political engagement and ecology. Although some of his works are radically contested, he has made constant use of the myth of origins. This recourse to the mythical thoughts of the founding American texts acts as a hyphen allowing him to deconstruct literarily the dominant political discourses of his society
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Bigelow, Scott. "Affecting Differences: The Gendered Performance of Affect in Willa Cather and John Steinbeck." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/41037.
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This thesis examines the performance of affect in relation to gender identity across some of the major works of Willa Cather’s and John Steinbeck’s careers. Throughout this discussion, I contend that Steinbeck—an author not often thought of as projecting feminist concerns—indeed approximates the feminist themes of Cather in his creation of characters who embody nonnormative castes of gender identity, even if Cather does perhaps exceed Steinbeck’s feminist vision in her optimism for the potential of people of nonnormative gender identity to find peace, happiness, and acceptance in an often xenophobic early-twentieth-century America. Over the course of this thesis, I build on the work of affect theorists such as Sara Ahmed and Anu Koivunen by demonstrating the power of affect theory as a tool for understanding gender politics and gender identity.
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Steinbeck, Andreas [Verfasser], and Stefanos [Akademischer Betreuer] Fasoulas. "Methode zur Messung von atomarem Sauerstoff mittels katalytischem Prinzip / Andreas Steinbeck ; Betreuer: Stefanos Fasoulas." Stuttgart : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Stuttgart, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1123572429/34.
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Woods, Danielle. "Defying domesticity Steinbeck's critique of gender politics of the postwar generation in East of Eden /." View electronic thesis, 2008. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2008-1/woodsd/daniellewoods.pdf.
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Faria, Johnwill Costa. "Of mice and men, de John Steinbeck : a oralidade na literatura como problema de tradução." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2009. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/4437.
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Esta dissertação investiga a atividade tradutória como reescritura, ou seja, a tradução compreendida como um novo texto, construído conforme a subjetividade do tradutor, o qual também dirige seu olhar para o autor, o texto e a cultura de partida, e para a recepção em seus aspectos de aceitabilidade do que será o produto final. Entende-se que a recepção é constituída não só pelo público leitor geral, mas também por vários agentes inseridos na complexa dinâmica social, onde sempre imperam conceitos de ordem ideológica e de poder, que, conseqüentemente, vão interferir de alguma forma no processo de escolha, seleção e publicação da tradução. Estas idéias encontram subsídio na teoria dos polissistemas, particularmente na contribuição de intelectuais como Itamar Even-Zohar, Gideon Toury e André Lefevere, dentre outros. É esta a base teórica principal que fundamentará este trabalho, que consiste no estudo de alguns problemas de tradução, ou seja, as diferenças nem sempre conciliáveis entre a cultura do texto de partida e a cultura do texto de chegada. Dentre esses problemas que causam dificuldades ao tradutor, destaca-se a questão de como traduzir a língua oral utilizada pelos personagens de John Steinbeck em seu romance Of mice and men. Logo, será realizada uma análise descritiva e comparativa de três traduções desse romance publicadas no Brasil em diferentes épocas, todas sob o título comum Ratos e homens: a primeira tradução é de Érico Veríssimo (Porto Alegre: Editora do Globo, 1940); a segunda é de Myriam Campello (São Paulo: Círculo do Livro, 1991); e a terceira é de Ana Ban (Porto Alegre: L&PM, 2005). Para este propósito, como referência teórica de análise, será utilizado como ponto de partida o esquema teórico de descrição de traduções literárias de Lambert e Van Gorp (1985) (dividido em quatro estágios: dados preliminares, macroestrutura, microestrutura e contexto sistêmico). Os dados deste estudo indicam como a dinâmica social e seus agentes interferem no processo de elaboração de uma reescritura, tendo os usos da língua oral como uma dificuldade relevante para o tradutor. Deste modo, observa-se como e por que os tradutores de Steinbeck analisados aqui propõem soluções diferentes para a linguagem dos diálogos em Of mice and men, caracterizada como um dialeto estigmatizado da língua inglesa, mas que ganha perfis diferenciados nestas traduções brasileiras. _________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT
This master s thesis investigates translating as a rewriting activity, that is, the translation is understood as a new text, constructed according to the translator's subjectivity, while looking towards the author, the text and the source culture, and towards the reception, in terms of the acceptability of what is to become the final product. It is understood that reception includes not only readers in general, but also several agents who are part of the complex social dynamics, where ideological and power concepts prevail, the consequence being that they will exert some manner of intervention in the processes involved in the choice, selection and publication of a given translation. These ideas find subsidies in the polysystem theory, particularly in contributions given by intellectuals such as Itamar Even-Zohar, Gideon Toury and André Lefevere, among others. This is the main theoretical basis sustaining this paper, consisting in the study of some translation problems, that is, differences that aren't always reconcilable, between the culture that gave rise to the original text and the target culture of that text. Of special notice, among the problems causing difficulties for the translator, is the question of how to translate the oral language used by John Steinbeck's characters in his novel Of mice and men. A descriptive and comparative analysis of three translations of this novel, published in Brazil in different periods, all under the common title Ratos e homens, will follow. The first translation is by Érico Veríssimo (Porto Alegre: Editora do Globo, 1940); the second, by Myriam Campello (São Paulo: Círculo do Livro, 1991); and the third, by Ana Ban (Porto Alegre: L&PM, 2005). To this end, as theoretical reference for our analysis, Lambert & Van Gorp's (1985) description scheme of literary translations (divided in four stages: preliminary data, macro-level, micro-level and systemic context) will be used as a starting point. The data on this paper indicate how the social dynamics and its agents interfere in the development process of a rewriting, when the use of oral language becomes a relevant difficulty for the translator. They make it possible to note how and why the Steinbeck's translators analyzed in this paper proposed different solutions for the language used in the dialogs found in Of mice and men, characterized as a stigmatized dialect of the English language, but which gains differing profiles in these Brazilian translations.
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Guimarães, Vera Maria Drews. "Urbanism as a [Rural] way of life, John Steinbeck versus the Sociological School of Chicago." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 1994. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/157862.
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Esta dissertação explora as relações entre a concepção de cultura urbana - e por oposição, de cultura não-urbana/rural- da "Escola de Chicago" e a representação da cultura rural em três obras de John Steinbeck que exploram a temática dos bóias-frias rurais na segunda metade da década de 30. Tal comparação se dá a partir da premissa de que ambas são expressões de práticas sociais identificadas com o declínio da economia liberal e o desenvolviemnto da economia coletivista capitalista, que culminou com a grande depressão. Este trabalho, em conseqüência, analisa o desenvovlimento do modelo teórico metodológico do "Urbanismo", bem como o desenvolviemnto da(s) temática(s), tese(s) e forma(s) literária(s) de In Dubious Batlle (1936), Of Mice and Man (1937) e The Grapes of Wrath (1939), dentro dos contextos sociais nos quais elas surgem e que lhes dão sentido histórico. Assim, tem-se como objetivo analisar, nestas obras, o desenvolviemnto das idéias de John Steinbeck acerca da cultura rural, da sua manutenção e transformação, comparando-as e contrastando-as àquelas pertinentes ao conceito sociológico de "Urbanismo" da Escola de Chicago, o qual inaugurou formalmente a sociologia urbana nos Estados Unidops com a publicação, em 1938, do artigo de Louis Wirth, "O Urbanismo como Modo de Vida".
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Ryding, Jacob. ""Perfect friendship is the friendship between men who are good and alike in virtue" : Aristotle's view on the friendship between George and Lennie in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-12112.
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The main purpose of this essay is to analyze the relationship between the two main characters George and Lennie in John Steinbecks novella Of Mice and Men (1937) and determine what kind of relationship they share, how their relationship is built and whether they are genuine friends or not. The definition of friendship which will mainly be employed and used is the one defined and created by Aristotle and published in his work Nicomachean Ethics. In order for the analysis to be as precise and proper as possible, the questions of how and why will constantly be asked and answered throughout the analysis in order to operate and act as guidelines for the final conclusion. Besides Aristotle’s definition of friendship, the novella will be examined from a perspective with primary focus on the concept of friendship and it will also to some extent touch the field of interpersonal relationships. The concept will then be applied to the examination of their relationship and will only take the content of the novella itself into account. To assist the theory and provide with an extended view upon friendship, the works of Allan (Kinship and Friendship in Modern Britain: 1996), Lynch (Philosophy and Friendship: 2005), Spencer (Rethinking Friendship: Hidden solidarities today: 2006) and Pahl (On Friendship: 2000) will be applied. The conclusion derived from the analysis shows that it is possible to interpret their relationship differently depending on which aspect of their friendship one decides to highlight, but the aspect of George and Lennie’s unequal stature due to the Lennie’s mental disability is a fact impossible to not take into account. This aspect makes it impossible for them to be genuine friends, as their relationship becomes based on one person having more responsibility than the other, making their friendship non-genuine according to Aristole.
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Nace, Michael Thomas. "Comic aesthetics and the effect of realism in the novel." Click here for download, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1486385421&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Hallé, Patrick. "Influence des circonstances biographiques sur la genèse de America and Americans de John Steinbeck : traduction commentée." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6828.
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De, Fazio Andréa Helena Puydinger [UNESP]. "Cultura, política e representações do México no cinema norte-americano: Viva Zapata! de Elia Kazan." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93334.
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Temos no filme Viva Zapata! (1952) o eixo central desta pesquisa, através da qual buscamos iluminar as relações entre cinema, cultura e política norte-americana dos anos cinqüenta, além de questionar como este cinema forma uma visão sobre o outro – nesse caso, os mexicanos. Produzido e lançado nos Estados Unidos em meio ao macartismo – oposição e perseguição aos comunistas, decorrente da Guerra Fria – é dirigido pelo cineasta Elia Kazan e tem como roteirista John Steinbeck, importante romancista norte-americano. Suas temáticas dialogam com a cultura e a política da época, os quais buscamos resgatar através deste estudo. Ainda, sendo um filme norte-americano sobre o México, nos possibilita questionar como este país e seu povo são representados – e ir além, analisando como se formam as visões dos outros no imaginário norte-americano, visão esta que se reflete através de manifestações culturais, como o cinema
The film Viva Zapata! (1952) is the central axis of the present study, through which we tried to highlight the relationships among North American cinema, culture and politics in the 1950s, as well as to question how this cinema forms the view about the other – in this case, the Mexicans. Produced and launched in the United States during McCarthyism – opposition and persecution to communists due to Cold War –, that film was directed by the filmmaker Elia Kazan and had as writer John Steinbeck, an important North American novelist. Its themes dialogue with the culture and the politics of that period, which we tried to rescue through this study. In addition, it is a North-American film about Mexico, which allows us to question how this country and its people are represented – as well as to analyze how the view about the others is formed in the North American imagination, since this view is reflected through cultural manifestations such as cinema
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Stofiel, Cynthia Puppel Londré Felicia Hardison. "Gods and Goddess a stage play based on an incident the in the life of John Steinbeck /." Diss., UMK access, 2006.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Dept. of Theatre. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2006."A thesis in theatre." Typescript. Advisor: Felicia Londré. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Jan. 29, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 53-61). Online version of the print edition.
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Steinbeck, Friederike [Verfasser]. "Die vorsätzliche Insolvenzverschleppung : Eine normentheoretische Untersuchung zu § 15a Abs. 1 i.V.m. Abs. 4 InsO / Friederike Madeleine Steinbeck." Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1108816487/34.
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Tetschner, Ben. "The story of a writer : a study of the creation and maintenance of a writer's identity /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p1422970.
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Leatham, Jeremy S. "Beyond Eden: Revising Myth, Revising Allegory in Steinbeck's "Big Book"." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2009. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2190.
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Steinbeck's use of allegory in East of Eden has caused much critical resistance, but recent work in allegory theory offers ways of rereading the novel that help mediate much of this criticism. The approach to allegory forwarded here, which allows for multiple bodies of referents and fluidity between text and referents, empowers readers with greater autonomy and individual authorship. In the case of East of Eden such an approach moves the novel beyond a simple retelling of the Cain-Abel narrative to establish a flexible mythic framework for use in an ever-changing world. By challenging dualistic thinking, narrow vision, and cultural inheritance, this framework seeks to order the world in ways that allow for a greater range of humanity and agency. A consideration of early 1950s America demonstrates the relevance of such a framework in a given historical moment.
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Schmidt, Lüder [Verfasser], Uwe [Akademischer Betreuer] Seifert, and Wolfram [Akademischer Betreuer] Steinbeck. "Embodied Cognitive Science of Music. Modeling Experience and Behavior in Musical Contexts / Lüder Schmidt. Gutachter: Uwe Seifert ; Wolfram Steinbeck." Köln : Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, 2008. http://d-nb.info/1047263335/34.
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Guo, Shuxia [Verfasser], Jürgen [Gutachter] Popp, Christoph [Gutachter] Steinbeck, and Axel [Gutachter] Mosig. "Chemometrics and statistical analysis in raman spectroscopy-based biological investigations / Shuxia Guo ; Gutachter: Jürgen Popp, Christoph Steinbeck, Axel Mosig." Jena : Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1177386755/34.
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Theron, Cleo Beth. "Disenchanting the American dream : the interplay of spatial and social mobility through narrative dynamic in Fitzgerald, Steinbeck and Wolfe." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/80374.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis focuses on the long-established interrelation between spatial and social mobility in the American context, the result of the westward movement across the frontier that was seen as being attended by the promise of improving one’s social standing – the essence of the American Dream. The focal texts are F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925), John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and Thomas Wolfe’s You Can’t Go Home Again (1940), journey narratives that all present geographical relocation as necessary for social progression. In discussing the novels’ depictions of the itinerant characters’ attempts at attaining the American Dream, my study draws on Peter Brooks’s theory of narrative dynamic, a theory which contends that the plotting operation is a dynamic one that propels the narrative forward toward resolution, eliciting meanings through temporal progression. This thesis seeks to analyse the relation between mobility and narrative by applying Brooks’s theory, which is primarily consolidated by means of nineteenth-century texts, to the modernist moment. It considers these journey narratives in view of new technological developments and economic conditions, underpinned by the process of globalisation, that impact upon mobility.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis konsentreer op die onderlinge verband tussen ruimtelike en sosiale mobiliteit in die Amerikaanse konteks, synde die gevolg van die weswaartse beweging oor grense en grondgebiede heen wat oënskynlik aangevuur was deur die belofte van ’n beter sosiale stand – die kern van die Amerikaanse Droom. Die soeklig val in die besonder op F. Scott Fitzgerald se The Great Gatsby (1925), John Steinbeck se The Grapes of Wrath (1939) en Thomas Wolfe se You Can’t Go Home Again (1940), welke drie reisverhale almal geografiese hervestiging as ’n vereiste vir sosiale vooruitgang voorhou. In die bespreking van hoe dié romans die rondreisende karakters se strewe na die Amerikaanse Droom uitbeeld, put my studie uit Peter Brooks se teorie van narratiewe dinamiek, wat aanvoer dat die intrigefunksie dinamies is en die verhaal voortstu na ontknoping, terwyl dit deur middel van temporele progressie betekenis ontsluit. Hierdie tesis ontleed die verhouding tussen mobiliteit en die narratief deur Brooks se teorie, wat hy hoofsaaklik deur interpretasie van 19de-eeuse tekste gevorm het, op die modernistiese tydsgewrig toe te pas. Dit besin dus oor hierdie reisverhale teen die agtergrond van nuwe, globalisasie-gegronde tegnologiese ontwikkelings en ekonomiese omstandighede wat mobiliteit beïnvloed.
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Zanata, Alberto <1995>. ""Venne l'alba, ma senza giorno". John Steinbeck e il racconto della Grande depressione tra la California e le Langhe." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/19082.
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Dopo l'ondata di eccessi ed euforia che caratterizzò i "ruggenti" anni Venti, il crollo di Wall Street del 1929 aprì un decennio di inquietudine, timore e angoscia per gli Stati Uniti. A risentire maggiormente di quel clima portato dalla Grande depressione furono soprattutto i contadini e i braccianti, che, vistisi sfrattati dalle loro terre, furono costretti a migrare verso ovest, verso la California - la "terra del latte e del miele" - alla spasmodica ricerca di un impiego per poter mangiare e sopravvivere.
Cantore indiscusso delle situazioni vissute e dei disagi provati da quelle torme di diseredati, reietti ed emarginati fu John Steinbeck. Egli, in opere quali "Uomini e topi" e "Furore", fu in grado di restituire, attraverso pagine di crudo realismo e di intenso pathos, l'epopea di quelle persone che, pur chiamate a fare i conti con il lato oscuro del sogno americano e con l'amara disillusione, seppero ribadire strenuamente e fino in fondo un vigoroso attaccamento alla vita e una insopprimibile volontà di andare avanti nonostante le avversità.
L'eco delle opere steinbeckiane fu di una intensità tale da raggiungere anche l'Italia, ove intellettuali e scrittori di primo piano non poterono rimanere indifferenti di fronte a quanto leggevano in quei romanzi e, perciò, non solo si impegnarono a far conoscere questo scrittore straordinario al pubblico nostrano, ma furono essi stessi influenzati dalla lezione di un autore che, ancora oggi, rimane di estrema attualità.
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SANTO, SUELY DO ESPIRITO. "THE POETICS OF MISERY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN ALVES REDOL S GAIBÉUS, AND JOHN STEINBECK S THE GRAPES OF WRATH." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2004. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=5172@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROGaibéus, de Alves Redol e As Vinhas da Ira, de John Steinbeck são romances que apresentam semelhanças de tema e estilo, além de revelarem um retrato vivo da vida dos agricultores em Portugal e nos Estados Unidos na década de 1930. Considerando o Neo-Realismo ou Novo Humanismo como base para uma abordagem comparativa entre estas obras, esta tese propõe primeiramente uma análise de alguns aspectos culturais e sociais que influenciaram a criação destes livros, bem como da repercussão crítica que os mesmos obtiveram em seus países. O propósito principal deste trabalho é provar que, através de um duplo ponto de vista crítico englobando um enfoque marxista do materialismo histórico e a teoria da resposta no leitor, é possível determinar as semelhanças entre a dialética empregada pelos seus autores e os elementos estéticos implícitos, os quais fazem estes dois romances semelhantes em arte e conteúdo.
Alves Redol s Gaibéus, and John Steinbeck s The Grapes of Wrath are novels that present similarities in theme and style, besides revealing a lively portrait of agricultural life in Portugal and in the United States during de 1930 s. Considering the Neorealism or New Humanism as the basis for a comparative approach between these works, this thesis proposes firstly an analysis on some cultural and social aspects that influenced the creation of these books, as well as the criticism on them in their countries. The main purpose of this work is to prove that, through a double point of view, comprising both the Marxist focus of historical materialism together with the reader-response theories, it is possible to determine the similarities between the dialectics employed by the authors and the implied aesthetics elements, which make these two novels similar in artistry and content.
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Banjari, Phillipp Verfasser], and Anja [Akademischer Betreuer] [Steinbeck. "Umgestaltungen am Werk der Baukunst durch den Eigentümer : Herleitung, Anwendung und Überprüfbarkeit des Grundsatzes der Erforderlichkeit / Phillipp Banjari. Gutachter: Anja Steinbeck." Köln : Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1038234611/34.
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Banjari, Phillipp [Verfasser], and Anja [Akademischer Betreuer] Steinbeck. "Umgestaltungen am Werk der Baukunst durch den Eigentümer : Herleitung, Anwendung und Überprüfbarkeit des Grundsatzes der Erforderlichkeit / Phillipp Banjari. Gutachter: Anja Steinbeck." Köln : Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1038234611/34.
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Hammock, Andrea Marie. "We should be like water: Choosing the lowest place which all others avoid: John Steinbeck as a modern messenger of Taoism." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2757.
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This thesis explores John Steinbeck's Cannery Row as a taoist text. It furthers this investigation by examining Cannery Row's recently discovered precursor, The God in the Pipes; examining the question of whether or not both novels were inspired by the ancient eastern philosophy of Taoism. The thesis uses clues from The God in the Pipes to determine which version of the Tao Teh Ching Steinbeck used to compose these novels.
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Brown, Morgan Lorene. "Of Mice and Men: The Development and Analysis of a Black Box Production." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1575839244848729.
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Dowland, Douglas G. "Fictionable America: four case studies." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/663.
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What can lead authors to come up with entirely different textual portraits of the same nation? My dissertation is an exploration of the rhetorical construction of emotion in nonfiction narratives about the United States from the Second World War to the present. I emphasize the importance of one particular rhetorical strategy: synecdoche, a substitution of part for the whole. I argue that synecdoche is as much a strategy for seduction as it is a rhetorical strategy, and therefore an emotional strategy as well. As the authors in my dissertation -- John Steinbeck, Charles Kuralt, Truman Capote and Sarah Vowell -- write of the nation, they simultaneously write of their irresistible, irrevocable attachment to the nation. In this way, these studies of the United States act like a Rorschach test, as a projection of affect onto what the authors claim to be an objective national portrait. (And we respond to them accordingly: consider the number of "America's" we encounter daily, and how many of them we automatically accept or dismantle.) The ambivalence the authors in my study feel, I would argue, comes only after the portrait is complete. The pleasure is in the process: the result is seldom as rewarding.
It has become commonplace to argue that "nations provoke fantasy." I argue that nations provoke fantasy because they are necessarily synecdochical. Synecdoche provokes fantasy because synecdoche is fantasy: the seduction of another through the persuasion that similar parts represent shared wholes. However, the nation is not only a fantasy. This is where the word "fictionable" enters into the study. As one major critic has defined it, the "fictionable" is that which is "available for conversion into fiction." The "nation" as a concept is certainly fictionable, and it is well worth considering -- as an entity and experience -- that has become so much a part of the way we tell stories about ourselves, that it can come to function as a backdrop on which we project both our political ideologies and personal desires.
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Burks, Brennan C. "The Source of Desire: The Mother In Three Twentieth Century Novels." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1366636032.
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Botelho, Michael Jones. "A Literatura em movimento: um estudo comparativo entre a obra Ratos e Homens, de John Steinbeck, e suas respectivas adaptações para a Sétima Arte." Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 2016. http://www.locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/8206.
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A presente dissertação visa empreender um estudo comparativo entre a obra literária Ratos e Homens (1937), do escritor estadunidense John Steinbeck, e suas duas adaptações para o Cinema, ocorridas, respectivamente, em 1939, sob a direção de Lewis Milestone, e no ano de 1992, dirigida por Gary Sinise. Este confronto é embasado pela Teoria da Adaptação e da Tradução Intersemiótica, expressas nos trabalhos de Brian McFarlane (1996), Robert Stam (2005; 2008; 2012), Thaïs Flores Diniz (1999; 2005) e Linda Hutcheon (2011). Este trabalho objetiva verificar e interpretar, a partir deste cotejo, os processos de (re)criação da obra literária para a Sétima Arte, ocasionados pela transposição de sistemas semióticos distintos. Após longa análise e discussão, pudemos constatar, de modo incisivo, que toda adaptação cinematográfica, fruto da interpretação subjetiva de um dado número de adaptadores, deve ser estudada como uma obra autônoma e, por o ser, do mesmo modo não pode ser julgada pelo critério da fidelidade, já que esta se torna impossível ao longo do processo de adaptação. Detectamos, outrossim, que as adaptações criativas de ambos os roteiristas e diretores se deram, principalmente, pela leitura subjetiva dos mesmos. Tanto a mudança de perspectiva de alguns personagens, quanto a interferência no início e no desfecho das adaptações fílmicas, foram frutos do olhar criativo e seletivo dos adaptadores que, antes de tudo, são leitores intérpretes da obra literária.
This work aims to undertake a comparative study between the book Of Mice and Men (1937), written by John Steinbeck, and its two adaptations to the cinema, the first, directed by Lewis Milestone in 1939, and the second, by Gary Sinise, in 1992. This comparative study was supported by the Theory of Adaptation and Inter-semiotic Translation, expressed in the works of Brian McFarlane (1996), Robert Stam (2005; 2008; 2012), Thaïs Flores Diniz (1999; 2005) and Linda Hutcheon (2011) and aims to verify and interpret the process of (re)creation of a literary work into a film, through the transposition of distinct semiotic systems. After an extensive analysis and discussion, it was poignantly concluded that every film adaptation, a product of the subjective interpretation of a certain number of adapters, must be seen as an autonomous work, and, as such, cannot be measured by fidelity criteria, as these become impossible along the adaptation process. It was also concluded that the creative adaptations of both scriptwriters and directors are mainly the result of subjective reading. The change of perspective in some characters, as well as interference at the beginning and at the end of film adaptations are the result of the creative and selective view of the adapters, who are, first of all, literature readers and interpreters.
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Steinbrecher, Stephanie A. "The Philosophy of Ecology in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/866.
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This thesis explores the possibilities for ecocritical study in fiction through John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath. Major ecocritical interpretation has yet to gain much traction in novels; by focusing on human nature, this form’s “anthropocentric” posture seems itself to be antithetical to ecocritical efforts, which aim to unseat humans as the center of the moral universe. However, by analyzing The Grapes of Wrath’s formal, narratorial, and thematic valences, I argue that principles of social justice concurrently imply environmental justice in the philosophical currents of the text. Tenets of deep ecology and Aldo Leopold’s “land ethic” inform the novel’s overall environmental outlook. The key to my interpretation is the value of community at the center of Steinbeck’s world. To expand principles of the collectivism and compassion in the social community to include the broader ecological community, I focus on the narrative’s unique Judeo-Christian spirituality and humanistic discourse. Ultimately I identify cohesion in The Grapes of Wrath’s composition that makes a single narrative of both the natural and the human worlds, and that creates a moral universe that guides ethical behavior towards others, both human and non-human; in doing so, I argue Steinbeck’s novel both enacts and represents an ecologically minded ethic.
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Enström, Karl Jonas Elton. ""Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land" : En nivåstudie av produktion, struktur, ensamhet och begär i John Steinbecks Of Mice and Men." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för genus, kultur och historia, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-5669.
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My main purpose with this paper of John Steinbecks Of mice and men is to both analyze the long-lived structures and the unique individual destinies of the novel. I employ the method of the historical Annales-movement and use three divided levels in my analysis to try to capture these high structures and low moments of humanity in Structure, Konjuncture and the Individuality. The first level, Structure, is used to see how long-lived almost invisible geographic structures set the human act of condition. The second level, Konjuncture, is easier to grasp in understanding of time and embraces for example economic structures as the industrialism. The last level of Individuality is the fastest in time and easiest to understand but in the long run also the least important. Humans are controlled by structures and norms. I try to inspect what these three levels look like in Of Mice and Men and how they affect each other and the main characters of the novel. I make use of Foucault and Butler in the Konjuncture-level to explore how power, production and discourse create structures that affects the working man and the “non-working” woman in Of Mice and Men. I adopt Butler to see how Steinbeck creates gender through clothes and working tools. In the Indivual-level we can see the effects of the other levels in the characters actions. For example how their sexual preferences are effects of the power-structure of the production (Rubin and Foucault), how a society see images of filth or purity when someone differ from the norm (Douglas and Foucault) and how we sacrifice one member of the social group to contain stability when chaos threatens (Girard).
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Steinbeck, Lisa [Verfasser]. "Detection of muscle wasting in patients with chronic heart failure using C-terminal agrin fragment : results from the Studies Investigating Co-morbidities Aggravating Heart Failure (SICA-HF) / Lisa Steinbeck." Berlin : Medizinische Fakultät Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1119803764/34.
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Johansson, Therése. "The Broken Dream : The Failure of the American Dream in The Grapes of Wrath from a Caste and Class perspective." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-6570.
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The paper aims to investigate the failure of the American Dream in the novel The Grapes of Wrath and the factors that affect it. Thus, the thesis of the paper is that it is the classes and castes of Californian that prevent the Joad family from fulfilling the American Dream. The thesis will be discussed from four focal points of the American Dream: Freedom, Equality, Individualism and Family and Ideal Home. The novel takes place during the Great Depression, a time when many Americans were homeless and unemployed. An attempt will be made to define the American Dream and give a background to it. Furthermore, the binary pair of “self” and “other” will be used as an instrument of analysis.
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De, Fazio Andréa Helena Puydinger. "Cultura, política e representações do México no cinema norte-americano : Viva Zapata! de Elia Kazan /." Assis : [s.n.], 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93334.
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Resumo: Temos no filme Viva Zapata! (1952) o eixo central desta pesquisa, através da qual buscamos iluminar as relações entre cinema, cultura e política norte-americana dos anos cinqüenta, além de questionar como este cinema forma uma visão sobre o outro - nesse caso, os mexicanos. Produzido e lançado nos Estados Unidos em meio ao macartismo - oposição e perseguição aos comunistas, decorrente da Guerra Fria - é dirigido pelo cineasta Elia Kazan e tem como roteirista John Steinbeck, importante romancista norte-americano. Suas temáticas dialogam com a cultura e a política da época, os quais buscamos resgatar através deste estudo. Ainda, sendo um filme norte-americano sobre o México, nos possibilita questionar como este país e seu povo são representados - e ir além, analisando como se formam as visões dos outros no imaginário norte-americano, visão esta que se reflete através de manifestações culturais, como o cinema
Abstract: The film Viva Zapata! (1952) is the central axis of the present study, through which we tried to highlight the relationships among North American cinema, culture and politics in the 1950s, as well as to question how this cinema forms the view about the other - in this case, the Mexicans. Produced and launched in the United States during McCarthyism - opposition and persecution to communists due to Cold War -, that film was directed by the filmmaker Elia Kazan and had as writer John Steinbeck, an important North American novelist. Its themes dialogue with the culture and the politics of that period, which we tried to rescue through this study. In addition, it is a North-American film about Mexico, which allows us to question how this country and its people are represented - as well as to analyze how the view about the others is formed in the North American imagination, since this view is reflected through cultural manifestations such as cinema
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Léonard-Roques, Véronique. "Réécritures du mythe de Caïn au XXe siècle : Le compagnon secret (Joseph Conrad), Abel Sanchez (Miguel de Unamuno), Demian (Hermann Hesse), A l'Est d'Eden (John Steinbeck), L'emploi du temps (Michel Butor), Le roi des Aulnes (Michel Tournier)." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999CLF20013.
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La spécificité et l'originalité des réécritures du mythe de Caïn dans les romans étudiés seront mieux saisies à l'issue d'un panorama diachronique qui, partant du récit biblique (Genèse IV), s'arrêtera sur ses principales lectures exégétiques, puis sur les grandes articulations de son histoire littéraire. Le Caïn du 20e est inséparable de la crise du sujet et des valeurs, des fractures historiques à l'oeuvre dans la modernité. La bipartition traditionnelle qui opposait Caïn et Abel selon un système axiologique radical, mais susceptible de se retourner, est frappée d'hybridité, vouée à l'ouverture et à la mobilité. L'équivocité que partagent les avatars des deux frères bibliques s'accompagne de l'exploration de la richesse d'un parcours caïnique tendu entre meurtre et création. L'ambiguïté de cet inténaire est idéale pour figurer le travail du négatif, la fécondité des déchirures, le processus de séparation et d'individuation autant d'éléments formulés par les penseurs de la modernité. Homo Faber, Caïn le civilisateur épouse la crise de la raison, ses risques de dérive vers la barbarie technicienne. Mais, père des artistes, il révèle aussi l'opposition entre monde hétéroclite de la vie et monde harmonieux de l'art, et la fonction d'antidote dévolue à celui-ci par une modernité qui cherche à unifier ses multiples fractures. Figure tragique mais porteuse d'espoir, le nouveau Caïn est placé au centre du processus dialectique de la création littéraire
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Ciritovic, Linda. "Socioeconomic Hardship and the Redemptive Hope of Nature in John Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1430661081.
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Stotsky, Lauren. "The Enduring Hold of the Bible on Modern Literature: Exploring the Fall Narrative as a Conceptual Metaphor for American Literature in John Steinbeck’s East of Eden." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/581.
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There is no greater work of literature, perhaps, than the Bible. The Bible has shaped and influenced more literature, art, and culture than any other work in our time. The effects of the Bible’s words are still woven into modern literature today, illustrating that the Bible’s themes, allegories, parables, fables, metaphors, and characters are things that we humans are unable to depart far from even many decades later. One of the very first stories in the Bible, found at the beginning in Genesis, tells of Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve’s depiction as the first kind of our species and the story of their creation to their Fall is one transformative story that humans seem destined to repeat. This cycle of falling is rampant in American literature, from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first century, appearing in works by prominent authors such as R. W. B. Lewis, Leo Marx, and John Steinbeck. Steinbeck’s novel East of Eden wrestles heavily with both biblical themes and metaphors and acts as a biblical framework for the Fall narrative and the book of Genesis. This thesis seeks to examine the Fall as a conceptual metaphor for American literature and thinking through John Steinbeck’s East of Eden and attempts to explain why literature, and humans, keep endlessly returning to the Fall.
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Steinbock, L. [Verfasser]. "Parameterstudie fuer eine Dosenspule als Elektronenringkompressor / L. Steinbock." Karlsruhe : KIT-Bibliothek, 2010. http://d-nb.info/1187253464/34.
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Bachhuber, Christoph [Verfasser], Eckehard [Akademischer Betreuer] Steinbach, Martin [Gutachter] Reisslein, and Eckehard [Gutachter] Steinbach. "Low Delay Video Communication / Christoph Bachhuber ; Gutachter: Martin Reisslein, Eckehard Steinbach ; Betreuer: Eckehard Steinbach." München : Universitätsbibliothek der TU München, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1190818760/34.
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Nacasch-Chaskalovic, Anate. "Yehouda Steinberg et le hassidisme." Paris 8, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA081834.
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Ce travail est une étude des nouvelles hassidiques de Y. Steinberg. Né en 1863 et élevé dans le milieu hassidique, il a assisté à la dégradation de ce mouvement et a été témoin de sa décadence. Ce travail nous a permis de découvrir l'oeuvre de Steinberg en comprenant le message profond qu'il a voulu nous transmettre. Notre démarche d'analyse sera donc la suivante : dans le premier chapitre, nous exposerons notre méthodologie de travail, et nous expliquerons les motivations qui nous ont poussées à choisir certaines de ses nouvelles. Dans le deuxième chapître , nous traiterons des personnages principaux et ce qu'ils représentent. Dans le troisième chapitre, nous aborderons les rapports entre les justes ; les dirigeants des communautés et les disciples dans la société du XIX ème siècle. Le quatrième chapitre traitera des aspirations de Steinberg ; les modèles humains et une compréhension juste de la réalité. . .
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Pitcher, Jeffrey Christian. "Use of a video based instruction program to enhance English literature and writing concepts." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2887.
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In this project an educational DVD about the life and writing styles of John Steinbeck was developed for use in high school freshman classrooms at Yucaipa High School. Additional activities to stimulate students' writing and composition in the style of Steinbeck were created to match educational theory and state standards.
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Jianshu, Chao [Verfasser], Eckehard [Akademischer Betreuer] Steinbach, and Matteo [Akademischer Betreuer] Cesana. "Feature-preserving image and video compression / Chao Jianshu. Betreuer: Eckehard Steinbach. Gutachter: Matteo Cesana ; Eckehard Steinbach." München : Universitätsbibliothek der TU München, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1088725104/34.
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