John Steinbeck as Fabulist

Title

en_US John Steinbeck as Fabulist

en_US Steinbeck Monograph Series, No. 3

Description

en_US Lawrence William Jones; Edited by Marston LaFrance

Creator

en_US Jones, Lawrence William

Date

2016-08-26T13:39:14Z

en_US 2013-06

en_US 1973

Date Available

2016-08-26T13:39:14Z

Date Issued

en_US 1973

Abstract

en_US "This is a 35-page pamphlet. In an argument sensitive to the many meanings and types of "fable," Jones sees Steinbeck in his prewar years experimenting with the form of the novel but in his postwar works experimenting with the form of the parable. Critics have hurt themselves by looking at the later works in the same way as they viewed the former. Though Jones's analysis will go further, I can at least indicate that he sees Steinbeck as creating a fabulist's world in the later period of his writings. Parable for Jones is, quoting Steinbeck, a "little play in your head." Parable like those Steinbeck writes is a complex moral fable. The article goes on to further distinguish. Jones is careful to distinguish fable as he describes it here from traditional "animal fable." But my sense is that he wants to keep the moral focus of fable and the organization that it gives a work."

Identifier

en_US 10948 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/91544

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US English Department, Ball State University

en_US Muncie, IN

Subject

en_US PS3537.T3234S84 no.3

en_US Secondary

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole