American Hungers
- 248pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
Argues that poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite interest in representations of the lower classes and the marginalized.
Gavin Jones Libri
Gavin Jones è Professore di Inglese alla Stanford University, il cui lavoro approfondisce le complessità della letteratura americana. La sua ricerca esplora temi come la politica del dialetto e il problema pervasivo della povertà attraverso vari periodi della storia letteraria americana. Jones ha pubblicato ampiamente articoli accademici che contribuiscono alla comprensione delle tradizioni letterarie americane del XIX e XX secolo.
Failure and the American Writer
- 204pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
The exploration of nineteenth-century American literature reveals that failure plays a crucial role in shaping the national experience, alongside success. Jones delves into the unconventional literary styles of this era, highlighting how these expressions of failure contribute significantly to the understanding of American identity and culture.
John Steinbeck remains enormously popular yet critics tend to dismiss his work as middlebrow and nostalgic. This study produces a Steinbeck for the twenty- first century, a thinker crucial to our understanding of issues such as climate change, growing social and racial inequality, and the relationship between the US and Latin America.