| Title | : | The Grapes of Wrath: Trouble in the Promised Land (Twayne's Masterwork Studies) |
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| ISBN | : | 0805779981 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780805779981 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 121 |
| Publication | : | First published April 1, 1989 |
The Grapes of Wrath: Trouble in the Promised Land (Twayne's Masterwork Studies) Reviews
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I miss his voice. This was the only Owens text I hadn't read.
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Tolerable nuts and bolts introduction to the novel. Situates the work in the larger context of Steinbeck's writing and thinking, in particular his biological speculations with Ed Ricketts. These ideas appear in Steinbeck's meditations on humanity as a corporate organism. His term for this idea was 'phalanx' (or sometimes 'Manself') and Owens does a credible job of explaining how this idea structures much of Grapes of Wrath. Some of the chapters are a little speculative and the readings of individual Joads are occasionally less than convincing. Nevertheless this is a solid one-volume introduction to the book, written at a level undergraduates or (possibly) motivated high school students could embrace.
