American Hungers
- 248 páginas
- 9 horas de lectura
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 Libros
Gavin Jones es Profesor de Inglés en la Universidad de Stanford, cuyo trabajo profundiza en las complejidades de la literatura estadounidense. Su investigación explora temas como la política del dialecto y el problema generalizado de la pobreza a lo largo de varios períodos de la historia literaria estadounidense. Jones ha publicado extensamente artículos académicos que contribuyen a la comprensión de las tradiciones literarias estadounidenses de los siglos XIX y XX.
Failure and the American Writer
- 204 páginas
- 8 horas de lectura
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.