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Scarecrow Press The Red Nichols Story: After Intermission, 1942-1965
Trumpeter Ernest 'Red' Nichols was an influential bandleader during the heyday of jazz in the Roaring Twenties, who nurtured the talents of such jazz luminaries as Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, and Glenn Miller. Nichols was also in constant demand as a studio musician, and, as a result, his musical output ranks him among the most prolific jazz musicians in history. This handy one-volume reference supplies jazz scholars, collectors, and fans with a complete, chronological bio-discography to all issued recordings (including compact disc) as well as unissued material, radio and television appearances, concerts, interviews, and privately owned home recordings spanning the period 1942-1965.
£146.07
Scarecrow Press Male / Female Language: With a Comprehensive Bibliography
This second edition updates and expands the first book-length examination of male and female linguistic differences. Its bibliography remains the most complete list on male/female linguistic behavior in print with the addition of over 1,000 new entries. Professionals in linguistics, anthropology, sociology, psychology, literature, and medicine, as well as other interested readers, will enjoy Mary Ritchie Key's readable discussion of the recent changes in male/female linguistic differences, as well as the enduring problems in male/female communication. She covers specific forms of communication, such as verbal and non-verbal, social dialect differences, style differences, and labels. With name and title indexes and an appendix containing guidelines.
£104.12
Scarecrow Press Food and Drink in Literature: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography
In his article on the meaning of oysters, Paul Schmidt wrote, 'When we think about food we are often thinking and writing about something else. Food always means something beyond the fact of what we put into our mouths. Food...is a loving and living and dying.' This unique bibliographic survey, including over 1,500 items (1,110 annotated), opens up avenues for further research on food and drink. International in scope, there are many French, Scandinavian, and German articles and books included. Though the bulk of the entries are of the modern era, there are entries from as far back as the early Romans.
£194.59
Scarecrow Press A Bibliographic History of the Book: An Annotated Guide to the Literature
Rosenblum provides the student of the book with a selective guide to a growing discipline. Emphasis is on more recent works, though classics are included regardless of age. The four sections focus on, but are not restricted to, the book in the West. The first section covers reference works. The second section is devoted to technical aspects of the making of books and manuscripts, such as ink, printing, and binding. The third section is arranged by period, from the ancient world to the present. A final section deals with book collecting, bookselling, and private presses.
£131.38
Scarecrow Press The Immigrant Experience in American Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography
In our growing desire to implement multicultural studies, much is made of the differences in ethnic groups and not enough about their similarities. Although the cultural details change—the food, the old heroes and legends, the religious observances and special holidays—each story tells of balancing two cultures in the process of becoming American. Descriptive citations cover forty-one immigrant groups (from Armenian to Vietnamese), six combined groups (Asian, Hispanic, Jewish, Scandinavian, Slavic, and West Indian), and a category called "The General Experience." There is comprehensive coverage from the late nineteenth century through the first half of 1994 of adult and young adult novels, collections of stories, anthologies, and secondary sources. In addition to author and title indexes, the book has two special indexes—"Theme and Genre" and "Publication Dates"—to assist the reader in making transcultural connections.
£107.03
Scarecrow Press Elizabeth Gaskell: An Annotated Bibliography of English Language Sources, 1976-1991
This extensive annotated bibliography builds on the work of previous bibliographers, identifying biographies, newly discovered correspondence, critical works, masters and honors theses and other bibliographies published between 1976-1991. Weyant also identifies new editions of Gaskell's novels and short stories which were published during the 15-year period covered. An extensive subject index provides for easy access to the some 350 entries.
£83.70
Scarecrow Press Patents as Scientific and Technical Literature
Several developments have contributed to the discovery that patents are an invaluable source of scientific information: the new accessibility via computerized databases, the expanded coverage of patents into such areas as biotechnology, computer programs, and live animals, improved formats, easier to read text, and expanded bibliographic control. Walker describes the many uses for information found in patents, followed by details of their availability from around the world and the many printed, online, and CD-ROM services designed to make them accessible. Searching techniques and strategies are given to facilitate the use of both subject files and those covering patents exclusively. Librarians and information scientists in general science and technical collections as well as patent searchers in a variety of information agencies will find valuable information in this comprehensive treatment of patent sources.
£126.67
Scarecrow Press The United States and World Cup Soccer Competition: An Encyclopedic History of the United States in International Competition
The United States was one of just 13 nations taking part in the first World Cup of soccer played in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1930. The first World Cup attracted very limited interest around the world, but since that time it has grown into the world's number one sporting event. This book details the history of the World Cup from 1930 to 1990 and includes the record of the United States national soccer team in the qualifying and final rounds of the competition. It also includes a detailed record of every game played by U.S. men's and women's national teams in international competition between 1885 and July 1993, at the senior level of play. Additionally, this book contains the details of the qualifying rounds of the 1994 competition, the finals of which will be staged in the United States in June and July of this year (1994). Also featured is a never before published account of U.S. participation in the 1930 competition, written in 1931 by team manager Wilfred Cummings. In his account, Cummings claims that American Bert Patanaude was the first player to score a hat trick in a World Cup game, a claim disputed in other published histories.
£104.50
Scarecrow Press Take Hold Upon the Future: Letters on Writers and Writing, 1938-1946
An uninhibited human document, this book reveals the inner workings of two very different minds struggling to meet the high standards of authorship they had set for themselves. Each served as a mentor to the other. Everson, known later as Brother Antoninus, a poet of the Beat Generation, comments trenchantly on Powell's novels (not published until the late 1970s) and Powell persuades Everson to reconsider words and images in his poems and give them titles. The letters include many insights on music as the two writers grow and develop emotionally and intellectually. Robinson Jeffers is the leitmotif for the book: Powell had written the first critical study of the poet and Jeffer's poems inspired Everson. Other writers appear-M.F.K. Fisher, Theodore Dreiser, Robert Duncan, Kenneth Rexroth, Henry Miller, and Archibald MacLeish, to name a few. Also sculptors Gordon Newell and Clayton James; painters Morris Graves amd Dillwyn Parrish; publishers James Laughlin and Ward Richie. Everson's draft board sent him to a conscientious objectors camp i Oregon, where he founded The Fine Arts at Waldport. The enforced separation of his internment, 1943-46, led to the dissolution of his marriage. Powell's unprecedented leap from junior librarian at UCLA to university librarian took place during these years, and his progress as a writer of columns, book reviews, and books is revealed.
£134.61
Scarecrow Press Collection Development and Collection Evaluation: A Sourcebook
Ideal for collection managers at any level, as well as for students, this selective guide to the literature contains approximately 2,000 citations to books, periodical articles, theses, and scholarly papers in English. Of value not only for its theoretical insights but also for its practical advice, the core literature shows a progression of ideas from managing collections in Guy R. Lyle's day through analyses of present day evaluation techniques and predictions about future technological advances. Arrangement of entries is alphabetical by author, with a comprehensive subject index, examples of collection development policies, ALA and other standards, and a glossary.
£110.30
Scarecrow Press Ridin' Herd to Writing Symphonies: An Autobiography
Radie Britain (1899-1994) was a famous twentieth century composer whose orchestral compositions have been performed by leading orchestras around the world and one composition, 'A String Quartet,' was performed at the White House. This autobiography offers a rare and intimate glimpse into the personality of this composer whose rich, full life and spiritual philosophy will inspire musician and non-musician alike. It chronicles her life from her childhood on a western ranch, to her three marriages, and her postwar critical successes. Includes a chronology of events and awards and a chronological list of her works.
£145.51
Scarecrow Press Index of American Periodical Verse 1991
The Index of American Periodical Verse is an important work for contemporary poetry research and is an objective measure of poetry that includes poets from the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean as well as other lands, cultures, and times. It reveals trends in the output of particular poets and the cultural influences they represent. The publications indexed cover a broad cross-section of poetry, literary, scholarly, popular, general, and "little" magazines, journals, and reviews.
£164.64
Scarecrow Press Annual Review of Jazz Studies 6: 1993
Details studies of individual jazz artists including two articles on the seminal guitarist Charlie Christian. Other articles are devoted to Ornette Coleman, Arthur Taylor, and a proposed standard method of notating melodic elements of jazz performance that are inadequately represented by standard notation.
£94.82
Scarecrow Press Survival Themes in Fiction for Children and Young People
Children in today's world face the complexities of surviving in their local environment, while being required to grow up with an understanding of global cultures and problems. Believing that books of fiction can provide awareness of the world for the youngest child, and information and vicarious experiences for older children, Wilkin has designed Survival Themes for those studying literature for children and young adults and for librarians, teachers, parents, and other adult intervenors in the child's life. This second edition examines over 300 books published in the last decade that deal with issues of human existence and survival. Titles are categorized under the following themes: The individual—aloneness and loneliness, feelings, images of self and others, and sexuality; pairings and groupings—friendship, peer pressures, social interaction, and families; and world views—people and the environment, religion and politics, war and peace, and celebration of life and death. Annotated with social and psychological commentary, the books reviewed cover a wide range of materials written for children from preschool to young adult. Programming ideas, including lists of related films, appear after each major section.
£82.66
Scarecrow Press City Lights Books: A Descriptive Bibliography
In 1955, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti began issuing small paperback books of poetry from City Lights Bookshop in San Francisco. Since then the press has published over 230 titles and 1,500 authors. Throughout its history, City Lights Books has reflected a broad range of ideas and fresh thought, publishing writers from every part of the world and cutting across lines of culture, age, and gender. Authors include Jack Kerouac, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Burns, Hilda Doolittle, Diane di Prima, Allen Ginsberg, Goethe, Walt Whitman, Gregory Corso, and Karl Marx. The Cooks provide complete information on all City Lights publications from 1955 through 1990, with full decriptions of title pages, collation, contents, bindings, dates published, and print run.
£91.66
Scarecrow Press Handbook of Old-Time Radio: A Comprehensive Guide to Golden Age Radio Listening and Collecting
Intended for both the casual listener and the serious hobbyist or researcher, this one-volume handbook includes a descriptive log of more than 2,000 different programs, with casts, announcers, network, length of program, duration of appearance, availability, and, where appropriate, story lines; categorized logs of more than 4,500 programs, organized by type of program; separate characters covering each type of program, with historical information and guidelines for researching and understanding each category of old-time radio programming; descriptions of the better-known premiums offered during radio's Golden Age; a history of the networks; a chapter on resources available for those interested in acquiring old-time programs, reference material, and/or memorabilia; and indexes of over 8,000 performers and program titles.
£196.50
Scarecrow Press Buddy DeFranco: A Biographical Portrait and Discography
Clarinetist Buddy DeFranco has made concert and recording appearances with nearly every important jazz musician in the world, including such legendary figures as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Tommy Dorsey. His playing career spans over half a century and encompasses performances all over the world. The authors chronicle the life of this singular musician, whose tremendous influence on the history and development of jazz has been acknowledged by fellow musicians and critics alike. Leonard Feather calls this a fascinating volume, recognizing DeFranco for the giant he has always been. Photographs from throughout his playing career bring the people and the times to life. Arne Astrup's detailed discography contains exhaustive data unavailable elsewhere.
£109.80
Scarecrow Press Casebook in College Library Administration
A companion to Lyle's Administration of the College Library, by Caroline Coughlin & Alice Gertzog. Applying principles to practice is one of the most valuable exercises teachers can present to students. Designed for use in a course dealing with academic libraries or with library management, the twenty cases in this book describe problems that every college librarian will encounter in one form or another. Each has policy, political, practical, and procedural implications. Questions are offered at the conclusion of the cases to promote discussion, and suggested readings are supplied to help students investigate the cases in light of precedent and against the background of information provided in professional literature. Cases include "Mapplethorpe at McMillan"; "The Obsolescent Employee"; "At the Judge's Behest"; "Alumni Blues"; "The Single Mom"; and others.
£77.43
Scarecrow Press Theodore Besterman, Bibliographer and Editor: A Selection of Representative Texts
Theodore Besterman (1904-1976) is acknowledged as one of the preeminent systematic bibliographers of the 20th century. His interests were wide-ranging, including theosophy, scrying, psychical research, anthropology, and, above all, Voltaire studies. In all these fields Besterman made significant contributions, and his World Biblio-graphy of Bibliographies (4th ed., 5 vols., 1965-1966) and edition of Voltaire's correspondence (107 vols., 1952-1965) are great monuments in the annals of modern scholarship. Cordasco collects representative selections from Besterman's vast oeuvre, with major attention to Besterman's chief bibliographical works and Voltaire studies, and selections from his writings in other fields. Includes a biographical and critical profile of Besterman and a detailed checklist of his writings.
£201.78
Scarecrow Press Annual Review of Jazz Studies 5: 1991
Cloth-bound, with a photo insert of jazz pictures by noted trumpeter Joe Wilder Volume 5 features articles and reviews on the Ellington legacy; George Duvivier; Milt Hinton; John Coltrane; a bibliography of British jazz periodicals; an expanded review section; and a review essay on jazz autobiographies.
£74.51
Scarecrow Press A Latino Heritage, Series IV: A Guide to Juvenile Books About Hispanic People and Cultures
Like its predecessors, A Hispanic Heritage, Series IV is designed as an aid for librarians and teachers who are interested in exposing students to the cultures of Hispanic people. The books listed are intended to provide students in kindergarten through high school with an understanding and appreciation of the people, history, and art and political, social, and economic problems of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Venezuela, and the Hispanic-heritage people of the United States. The volume is arranged in chapters that explore specific countries and cultures, and chapters on Central and Latin America as a whole. Books are listed in alphabetical order by author surname. An attempt has been made to include most in-print books in English published since 1988 in the U.S. concerning the countries and people listed above, as well as general books on Latin America. Especially noteworthy titles that contain recent information and are also entertaining are marked with an asterisk. The author has assigned tentative grade levels and expresses her personal opinions of the books in the annotations. With author, subject, and title indexes.
£91.23
Scarecrow Press Where's That Tune?: An Index to Songs in Fakebooks
A 'fakebook' is a collection of songs containing words, melody line, and chord notations. Legal fakebooks are a relatively recent product of the music marketplace. This book provides easy access to the contents of a substantial number of these publications. Included are 64 collections encompassing a total of over 13,500 songs by hundreds of different composers. Popular standards, country, jazz, folk, gospel, and classical music are included. Represented are the works of such diverse composers as George Gershwin, Gilbert and Sullivan, Elton John, Quincy Jones, Lennon and McCartney, Willie Nelson, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stevie Wonder, and many, many more. Indexing is by title and composer, with complete bibliographic descriptions of the fakebooks included.
£118.97
Scarecrow Press Taking Center Stage: Feminism in Contemporary U.S. Drama
Successor to the author's ground-breaking Feminist Drama (1979; hailed by CHOICE as "... an admirable example of the new feminist scholarship"), this new book describes the evolution of contemporary American feminist thought since that volume appeared and traces its themes in a cross-section of contemporary plays. Brown develops new and more encompassing definitions of feminism and feminist drama applicable to the wealth of theory and drama that has appeared since 1979. Giving voice to silenced women, glorifying those defined by the patriarchy as marginal, and propounding a feminist ethic based on respect for the environmental context and for the concrete, everyday world are among the central concerns of the new feminist drama. Plays by Jane Chambers, Caryl Churchill, Darrah Cloud, Kathleen Collins, Holly Hughes, Marsha Norman, David Rabe, Ntozake Shange, and Jane Wagner receive close textual analysis in the book.
£70.75
Scarecrow Press Managing Public Access Microcomputers in Health Sciences Libraries
This is a step-by-step guide to planning, installing, managing, and marketing microcomputer services. Each chapter focuses on a specific topic: funding, planning facilities, equipment and peripherals, local area networks, software collections, user services, support personnel, and administrative issues. Written not only for health information professionals, but for all information professionals who manage public access microcomputers or who are planning future facilities.
£83.00
Scarecrow Press In Another Country: Feminist Perspectives on Renaissance Drama
This anthology aligns feminist essays about Shakespeare with essays on other dramatists of the English Renaissance, particularly Peele, Marlowe, Webster, Marston, and Middleton. Foregrounding the intertextuality of Elizabethian drama, the thirteen essays_eleven of them new_explore the contribution of the stage to various feminist subjects, drawing on diverse theoretical approaches_formalists, materialist, historical, new historicist, deconstructionist, psychoanalytic, rhetorical_and resisting the figuration of feminist criticism as simple or univocal. Essayists include Laura Bromley, Mary Ann Bushman, Christy Desmet, Coppelia Kahn, Margaret Mikesell, Thomas Moisan, Jeanie Grant Moorem Phyllis Rackin, James Schiffer, Jeremy Tambling, Carolyn Whitney-Brown, and the editors. With extensive bibliographies.
£103.29
Scarecrow Press Poetry by American Women 1975-1989: A Bibliography
Poetry by American women has been neglected by critics as well as publishers. Thus, this bibliography is a significant contribution to American literary history. Highly recommended.
£91.14
Scarecrow Press A Bookman's Guide to Hunting, Shooting, Angling, and Related Subjects: A Compilation of Over 13,450 Catalog Entries with Prices and Annotations, Both Bibliographic and Descriptive
This unique compilation catalogs books on sporting and related material from the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.D. through 1988, providing detailed bibliographical information and accurate pricing, as taken from over 400 recent catalogs from booksellers representing Canada, South Africa, Great Britain, and all parts of the United States. Entries are listed alphabetically by author and are numbered as well. There are 7,182 separate titles described, providing the following information: author, title, size, number of volumes, pagination, place published, date published, edition, number and type of illustrations, and type of binding. Informative annotations are also retained when provided with original catalog entry. With a list of pseudonyms, references cited, title index, and comprehensive subject index.
£247.31
Scarecrow Press Response Recordings: An Answer Song Discography, 1950-1990
This book presents a comprehensive alphabetized list of over 2,500 hit tunes that prompted the production of answer songs or other forms of response recordings. Covering January 1, 1950 through January 1, 1990, the compilers list more than 5,000 recordings (45 rpm) by title, artist, record number, and date of release. With a well-documented introductory essay.
£78.78
Scarecrow Press Directory of Blacks in the Performing Arts
This second edition is a single-volume ready reference source on some 1,100 black performing artists in film, television, theatre, dance, and musical performance. The body of the work is arranged alphabetically. All artists included in the first edition are listed here, with updated information as appropriate.
£149.92
Scarecrow Press A Checklist of American Imprints 1830-1839 -Title Index
Provides title access to 59,415 items published during the 1830s, as listed in A Checklist of American Imprints.
£203.56
Scarecrow Press A Bibliography of Military Name Lists from Pre-1675 to 1900: A Guide to Genealogical Research
This annotated bibliography gleans from more than 400 genealogy and history periodicals articles listing military men in America's wars from the Colonial era to the Spanish-American War, whether their names appeared on tombstones or in roster lists, pension records, reunion rosters, or old newspapers. The work is arranged chronologically by war, then alphabetically by state and county. Entries for the Civil War are also classified by regiment. The juxtaposition of entries by geographic region under each war collects the scattered articles that appear in diverse periodicals. This arrangement will help researchers focus on the area where their ancestor may have lived or died.
£251.10
Scarecrow Press Bibliography of Ancient Ephesus
A bibliography of over 1,500 titles on the history and artifacts of ancient Ephesus. Brings together works that might otherwise have been very hard to locate...- CHOICE
£85.84
Scarecrow Press Steinbeck Bibliographies: An Annotated Guide
No descriptive material is available for this title.
£82.86
Scarecrow Press The First Tycoons
MacCann has shaped from 28 different memoirs and histories a cumulative story of the conflicts and achievements of the founders of the great movie studios. Carl Laemmle, Marcus Loew, William Fox, Samuel Goldwyn, Jesse Lasky, and Adolph Zukor are the stars of this history, some of them speaking in their own voices, others assessed by film historians. Zukor (described by Ramsaye as 'inwardly driven by Napoleonic ambition') becomes the central figure of the era. A source book for students and teachers and a treasure for general readers and classic film fans.
£82.35
Scarecrow Press Energy and Individuality in the Art of Anna Huntington, Sculptor, and Amy Beach
Includes a catalog of each artist's work, a discography of Beach's music, photographs of sculptures, and numerous musical examples.
£113.96
Scarecrow Press Science Fair Project Index 1973-1980: Science & Technology Division Akron-Summit County Public Library
'Helpful in selecting projects suitable to a given age level and manageable with a home's workshop and kitchen resources.'—WILSON LIBRARY BULLETIN
£133.41
Scarecrow Press Bibliography of the Languages of Native California: Including closely related languages of adjacent areas
A comprehensive, annotated listing of over a thousand books, monographs, and articles containing substantive information on all the American Indian languages of California and closely related languages outside its boundaries. Important book reviews are included, as are unpublished theses and dissertations. The main listing is by author, with cross-references for co-author. A single index, which refers back to the main listing by item numbers, lists general works; names of dialects, languages, and language families; and miscellaneous topics.
£91.03
Scarecrow Press A Guide to Critical Reviews, Part IV, Supplement I: The Screenplay: 1963-1980
Detailed history and understanding of the screenplay from 1963-1980.
£135.82
Scarecrow Press The Conservation of Archival and Library Materials: A Resource Guide to Audiovisual Aids
This guide to the 20-year period ending in 1980, provides a selective listing of audiovisual materials with informative annotations.
£91.88
Scarecrow Press Research in Parapsychology 1980: Abstracts and Papers from the Twenty-Third Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association, 1980
The current volume contains abbreviated versions of the original papers presented at the convention.
£90.72
Scarecrow Press The Image Makers: A Bibliography of American Presidential Campaign Biographies
To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
£71.04
Scarecrow Press Newspaper Indexes: A Location and Subject Guide for Researchers
A straight forward and essential resource.
£63.40
Scarecrow Press Poltergeists: An Annotated Bibliography of Works in English, circa 1880-1975
Introduces the reader to poltergeist literature in the form of over 1100 references drawn from books, research papers, journals and magazines published between 1882 and 1975.
£118.32
Scarecrow Press Index to Artistic Biography
...A guide to biographical information of 70,000 artists...- RQ
£256.16
Scarecrow Press Organizing African Unity
No descriptive material is available for this title.
£119.55
Scarecrow Press Chinese Drama: An Annotated Bibliography of Commentary, Criticism, and Plays in English Translation
Providing access to relevant citations from a variety of disciplines_art, architecture, anthropology, literature, political science, history, and others_this bibliography is intended for theatrical groups or students searching for a translation of a play or an interpretation of one, for scholars seeking an introduction to an aspect of Chinese drama beyond their immediate expertise, for teachers revising or developing courses in Chinese/Asian drama, and for libraries attempting to develop their Chinese/Asian drama collection. Part I, Drama, is a comprehensive, classified, annotated, interdisciplinary bibliography in English of articles, books, parts of books, theses, and dissertations concerning all aspects of Chinese drama from its shamanistic origins to 1985. Part II, Plays in Translation, includes references both to Chinese plays in English translation and to commentary. The plays are listed alphabetically by title. For each play, citations are listed within three possible subdivisions: scripts, selections, excerpts; summaries; commentary/criticism, with a separate name index for each part.
£114.30
Scarecrow Press How to Identify Chinese Characters
With the spread of written information, non-Chinese-speaking Westerners have increasing need to identify Chinese characters, but they encounter great difficulty when attempting to look them up in a dictionary, because modern Chinese dictionaries and reference materials are all based on the official pinyin, an alphabetic romanization of the Chinese language. This book provides an easy method_by modified stroke count_by which the most frequently used Chinese characters can be identified and transcribed into pinyin. Access to dictionaries and meanings easily follows.
£103.50
Scarecrow Press John Steinbeck and His Contemporaries
In March of 2006, scholars from around the world gathered in Sun Valley, Idaho for a conference devoted to not only John Steinbeck but also to the authors whose work influenced, informs, or illuminates his writings. This volume represents the many unique papers delivered at that conference by scholars from around the world. This collection includes studies on authors who influenced Steinbeck's work, discussions of writers whose work is in dialogue with Steinbeck, and examinations of Steinbeck's contemporaries, whose individual works invite comparisons with those of the Nobel-prize winning author. Revealing Steinbeck's penchant for culling "all old books," the first section focuses on Steinbeck's European forebears, particularly Sir Thomas Malory's retelling of the legend of King Arthur, Le Morte d'Arthur, and Henry Fielding's novel Tom Jones. This section also includes articles on his American forebears: Walt Whitman and Sarah Orne Jewett. The second part, "Steinbeck, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Cather" includes a personal reminiscence by Ernest Hemingway's daughter-in-law, Valerie, as well as comparisons of Steinbeck with other great American authors of the 20th century. The third section includes an essay by National Book Award winner Charles Johnson (Middle Passage), as well as articles that compare Steinbeck's work with Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison. Further articles are concerned with Steinbeck's moral philosophy and strong sense of social justice, eliciting comparisons with Sinclair Lewis, Tom Kristensen, and Charles Johnson. The fourth section, "Steinbeck, the Arts, and the World" includes articles on the film adaptation of The Moon Is Down, on Steinbeck and Mexican Modernism, on the American experience as portrayed in The Grapes of Wrath and Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, and on Steinbeck and ecocriticism. The book fittingly concludes with John Ditsky's keynote address, "In Search of a Language: Steinbeck and Others," which was delivered
£72.00
