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The Crysanthemums. El Paso Community College Search for Author: Mark
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... Both the tangible and intangible are seen in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The
Yellow Wallpaper” and John Steinbeck’s “The Crysanthemums”. ...
... She sees hope, a way to expand, through her joy, her love, her talent crysanthemums. ...
The tinker is to transport some crysanthemums to a woman in town. ...
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A Kind of Play: Dramatic Elements in Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums"
Critic: John Ditsky
Source: Wascana Review, Vol. 21, No. 1, Spring, 1986, pp. 62–72
Criticism about: John (ernst) Steinbeck (1902-1968), also known as: John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr., John (Ernst) Steinbeck, John Ernst Steinbeck, Amnesia Glasscock
Genre(s): Short stories; Novellas; Novels; Plays; Poetry; Social novels; Letters (Correspondence); Novels of the soil; Proletarian novels; Essays; Film scripts
The longstanding critical assumption, routinely delivered and seldom questioned, that John Steinbeck represented an odd late flourishing of literary naturalism--rather than, as now seems increasingly clear, an innovative sort of romanticism--has had the predictable effect of retarding appreciation of his accomplishments. Among the latter are the ways in which Steinbeck's language emerges from his contexts: arises organically but not necessarily with "real-life" verisimilitude from situations which must therefore be seen as having demanded, and in a sense therefore also created, a discourse of a sometimes patent artificiality--of a rhetorical loftiness appropriate to the dramatic seriousness of the given subject matter, but unlikely as an instance of "observed" intercourse in English, American variety. For only from such a vantage point can we hope to make sense of many of the exchanges which animate such diverse works as Cup of Gold, To a God Unknown, The Moons Is Down, and Burning Bright. Yet the sorts of usage I am referring to must necessarily give pause to the reader of...
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