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Gavin Jones

    Gavin Jones is hoogleraar Engels aan de Stanford University, wiens werk zich verdiept in de complexiteit van de Amerikaanse literatuur. Zijn onderzoek verkent thema's als de politiek van dialect en het alomtegenwoordige probleem van armoede gedurende verschillende perioden van de Amerikaanse literaire geschiedenis. Jones heeft uitgebreid wetenschappelijke artikelen gepubliceerd die bijdragen aan het begrip van de Amerikaanse literaire tradities uit de negentiende en twintigste eeuw.

    Reclaiming John Steinbeck
    Failure and the American Writer
    American Hungers
    • American Hungers

      • 248bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen
      5,0(2)Tarief

      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.

      American Hungers
    • Failure and the American Writer

      • 204bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen

      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.

      Failure and the American Writer
    • 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.

      Reclaiming John Steinbeck