John Steinbeck, [print]
by Warren French.
- 2d edition., rev.
- Boston, Twayne Publishers (c)1975.
- 189 pages portrait 21 cm.
- Twayne's United States authors series, TUSAS 2 .
- Twayne's United States authors series ; TUSAS 2. .
About the author -- Preface to the second edition -- Chronology -- John Steinbeck, American -- Naturalism and the drama of consciousness -- Steinbeck visits the waste land -- Naturalism - the story cycles -- Naturalism - towards theater -- From naturalism to the drama of consciousness - the education of the heart in The grapes of wrath -- Dramas of consciousness - the war years -- Cannery row and transcendent man -- Dramas of consciousness - the search for a natural saint -- East of Eden, California, and the cosmic California -- Beyond the drama of consciousness -- John Steinbeck and the American consciousness.
Steinbeck's progression from naturalism to drama of consciousness is traced in a study bringing to light concepts of human destiny accounting for differences between novels and stories written prior to and after 1945.