Critical Companion to John Steinbeck: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work

... me on the intercom, and I went down to say goodbye. The Russians kissed my hand in the manner of the elegant European, and left. John and Bob collapsed in chairs. For them, it had been like an opening night, but they still had to wait ...

... Of Mice and Men Lennie first pets Curley's wife , then breaks her neck , without any awareness that she provokes both reac- tions . His conscious desires are simple : to stroke something furry , and to stop the furry thing from yelling ...

... James Joyce Quarterly 4 ( Spring 1967 ) : 244 . Short , Clarice . " Joyce's A Little Cloud . ' " Modern Language Notes 72 ( April 1957 ) : 275-278 . Smith , Thomas F. " Color and Light in ' The Dead . ' " James Joyce Quarterly 2 ...

... drowning after his ship was wrecked. Robertson married Agatha, and the couple moved to Nantucket, where Agatha became pregnant. Robertson left again to go to sea, and Agatha did not hear from him until 17 years later, when he showed up ...

... story has nothing directly to do with Clemens's own experiences in the West, the 2002 Hallmark Channel's Roughing It miniseries contains an otherwise reasonably faithful dramatization of “The Californian's Tale.” Adam Arkin plays the ...

A Literary Reference to His Life and Work Dawn B. Sova. 32 “Berenice” descendant of an ancient family that “has been called a race of visionaries,” and his “graceful and energetic” cousin Berenice. Self-described as suffering from ...

... Frost a major achievement. This home burial was so close to home for Frost that he could not utter his own words; he would not read the poem publicly. See HOME, THEME OF. FURTHER READING Bentley, Louise. “You Think the Talk Is All (Robert ...

... Death of a Salesman : Text and Criticism , edited by Gerald Weales , contains the play's full text and also five of Miller's theater essays , 21 reviews and essays , and other useful material . Bernard Dukore has edited a similar volume ...

... Richard Bausch (b. 1945), Robert Bausch (b. 1945), and Sydney Blair (b. 1949); Vance Bourjaily (b. 1922) reading his story “Fitzgerald Attends My Fitzgerald Seminar”; Budd Schulberg speaking on “Working with Fitzgerald and Other Writers ...

... Road” traveled often in Leaves of Grass, the poet constantly searching for ... d,” “the illiterate person,” “the escaped youth,” “the rich person's ... gray stones of interminable pavements.” At the beginning of Section 4, the earth ...

... meeting of 31 pilgrims at the TABARD Inn in SOUTHWARK, a suburb of London on the south side of the river Thames. Vividly detailed portraits of 21 of the pilgrims form the body of this prologue, in which the narrator ... did not finish the ...

... Evolution through Symbol,” Nineteenth-Century Fiction 19, no. 2 (September 1964): 123–139. Biographical. Stories. for ... Pathfinder (New York) the same month. It was later collected in MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE (1846). The story should be ...

... Sweeney Agonistes” with two epigraphs to guide them on their way, and unlike his usual practice of not identifying ... among the Nightingales,” mentioned earlier, relates. The connections between that epigraph of Eliot's and this later ...

... Henry James . New York : Frederick Ungar , 1984 . Sharon B. Oster , University of Redlands " The Real Thing " ( 1892 ) James outlined the initial ideas for the story during a visit to PARIS in 1891. " The Real Thing " was pub- lished ...

... hermetic order of the golden Dawn Finding himself at odds with the orthodoxies of the theo- sophical society —his official expulsion came in october 1890—Yeats cast his lot with the Hermetic order of the Golden Dawn, a newly instituted ...

A Literary Life Linda Wagner-Martin. CHAPTER 7. Cannery. Row. and. The. Pearl. In Steinbeck's eyes Cannery Row was a “silly” release of his war terrors, a return to the days when he visited Ed Ricketts and the occupants of Cannery Row ...

... Cannery Row : " The general atmosphere is one of biological benevolence , a sort of beaming approbation for human activities conducted on an unthinking level far below the demarcation line of pride , honesty , self - respect and ...

... Screenplay by Barnaby Conrad , adapted from John Steinbeck's short story . Directed by Louis Bispo . Produced by ... Of Mice and Men " ( 1992 ) . Screenplay by Horton Foote , based on John Steinbeck's novel . Directed by Gary Sinese ...

... Meaning , " an excerpt from Peter Lisca's The Wide World of John Steinbeck ( discussed fully in chapter seven ) , explores recurring symbolism , action , and language in Of Mice and Men ( 86-93 ) . Place is the primary symbol ; Lennie's ...

... questions , and be asked three in return ; the one who fails to answer all ... answers , respectively , the dwarfs , the giants , and the gods . Mime then answers two ... Act II . Scene : in the depths of a forest near the Dragon Fafner's den ...

... CAMPAIGNS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE : GTING AN ACCOUNT DE AL HIS ENGAGEMENT , SIEGE OF TOULON Tone e de WARS M. A NEW TRATED . TWO VOLUMESIN ONE BOSTON : PHILLIPS , SAMPSON COM 110 Washington Street . Reid , William Hamiltone / LIFE AND ...

... tracks of literature” and noted particularly that the “close of the book is poetic and beautiful.” But he also wrote that hurston “reduces the dialect as she proceeds” and that as a result the text “loses something in flavor.” In any ...

... characters, three female characters, and a cameo part, “Corydon.” In the first scene, Corydon is ... the eight characters in the three scenes drop hints, nods and winks, and ... character in the 234 The Mystery, an Unfinished Comedy.

... I HEARD A FLY BUZZ — WHEN I DIED —” and “BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH ... meaning of death. In this poem, however, the poet has an addi- tional ... died for Beauty and Truth, Dickinson's poetry as a whole gives evidence of why these ...