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A Comparative Exploration of Devaluation of Women, Ownership, and Violence in John Steinbeck's The Chrysanthemums and The Pearl, Elisabeth Bayley.The Portrayal of "Poverty People" in John Steinbeck's The Pearl and Tortilla Flat, Emily P.Who Stole Kino's Cheese? Socioeconomic Determinism in The Pearl, Arun Khevariya.

Surrendering: Steinbeck's The Pearl as an Artistic Failure, John J."The Detachment of God": A Theopoetic Reading of Steinbeck's The Pearl, Kelly C.

The Song of Inequality: Sickness and Wealth in Steinbeck's The Pearl, Jericho Williams.

Steps to a Littoral Ecology: Community and Nature in John Steinbeck's The Pearl, Michael Zeitler.

"This Is the Whole": Ecological Thinking in John Steinbeck's The Pearl, Christopher Bowman.

Of Mollusks and Men: An Ecocritical Approach to The Pearl, Lowell Wyse.

The Critical Readings section of this book contains the following essays:

James Plath closes this section by using a comparative approach to continue the discussion on The Pearl, particularly in comparison to Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. The Critical Contexts section opens with an essay by Melinda Knight that discusses Steinbeck's vision of Mexico in the context of The Pearl. This is followed by a survey of critical reception, also by Melinda Knight, and an essay by Kyler Campbell, closely and critically examining Steinbeck's work. By comparing and contrasting it with other important works.A collection of four critical context essays are intended to treat Steinbeck's novella: Its Mexican setting, in a location not far from California, gives it a particular interest today as the United States becomes increasingly multicultural.įor all these reasons and more, this latest contribution to the Critical Insights series may be of special interest to many readers. Although it began its life as a brief parable, an allegorical novella about a poor fisherman finding a pearl, becoming greedy, and subsequently suffering a job-like loss, it has remained in the literary conversation for nearly three-quarters of a century for reasons that seem to exceed its original goals. John Steinbeck’s The Pearl is one of the most popular and most frequently taught of all American novellas. The present volume examines the book from numerous perspectives – historical, cultural, social, economic, ethnic, and literary. This book in the Critical Insights series explores the many factors that have made Steinbeck’s short novel so enduringly appealing, examining the history of the work’s critical reception while also contributing new insights that have not been pursued before.