KLONDIKE Gold Rush, 1896-1899, GOLD mines & mining, AMERICAN authors, and ALASKA
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This article relates how the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897 in the Yukon Territory inspired U.S. author Jack London to write his novel "The Call of the Wild." Topics covered include how questing for gold in the Yukon served as a material for his best-known Yukon book "The Call of the Wild," overview of the childhood and hardships that London encountered that enhanced his life and survival skills, features of London's adventure in the Yukon and highlights of London's writing career.
Studies in American Naturalism. Summer2019, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p56-75. 20p.
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POLITICAL development, ECONOMIC development, STORYTELLING, and PERCEPTION
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A literary criticism of the book "The Road" by Jack London is presented. Topics discussed include the country's social, political, and economic advancement dependent upon the public's grasp; storytelling elements like vernacular dialogue, elaborate imagery, and sensory perception; and attempt to reconcile his fiscal distress and duplicitous selfhood.
Studies in American Naturalism. Summer2019, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p76-103. 28p.
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY, SEX crimes, and GAY male relationships
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The article informs about the views of vulnerable youth in the works of Jack London. Topics discussed include later write several tramp autobiographies, including a fictional account of being on "The Road" with London; London's narratives, specifically the sexual threats faced by transient boys; and male relationships were often patterned along lines of dominance and submission.
Studies in American Naturalism. Summer2019, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p1-18. 18p.
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP, UNEMPLOYMENT, and HISTORICAL literature
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A literary criticism of the book "The Tramp Diary" by Jack London is presented. Topics discussed include nationwide unemployment demonstrations and self-made businessman; alleviate both unemployment and the poor treatment of the employed; and physical diary has to tell is enlightened by an exploration of the historical context.
Studies in American Naturalism. Summer2019, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p19-31. 13p.
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AUTHORS, CHRONOLOGY in literature, HUMAN behavior, and STORYTELLING
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A literary criticism of a book "The Road" by Jack London is presented. Topics discussed include experiences and development as a writer but also to his partnership and intellectual collaboration; the tramp as a human character who warranted understanding; and chronological narrative work is focused on the act of storytelling.
Studies in American Naturalism. Winter2018, Vol. 13 Issue 2, p150-164. 15p.
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SUICIDE victims, REDUCTIONISM, and PSYCHOLOGICAL criticism
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A literary criticism of the book "Martin Eden" by Jack London is presented. It outlines a revealing exchange between two young writers as London confesses to Elwyn Hoffman that his own regrets and anxieties have led him to contemplate suicide on occasion, and he suggests that one way to counter that dark impulse is to get passionate about a topic and go lecture about it. It also discusses that suicide is one of the central elements or themes driving the plot of the novel Martin Eden.
Journal of Global South Studies. Fall2018, Vol. 35 Issue 2, p346-358. 13p.
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KOREANS, NOVELISTS, AUTHORS, WORKING class, and GREAT Britain -- Social conditions
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Jack London (1876–1916) was America's leading novelist and short story writer at the dawn of the twentieth century. He was also a brilliant essayist and feature-writing journalist and a crusading socialist, an impassioned and articulate spokesman for the underclasses. In his essays and in much of his fiction, London was determined to demonstrate the squalid living conditions of the working class. His most poignant work is his 1903 book The People of the Abyss, which brilliantly portrays the economic and social misery of the poor living in London's great East End slum. London's thesis is not a condemnation of the wealthy capitalist class per se; instead, he points out the irony that tens of thousands of British subjects were still living and working in conditions of abject degradation in what was supposedly the wealthiest city in the world. London maintained this theme when he traveled to Japan and Korea during the winter and spring of 1904 to report on the Russo-Japanese War for the Hearst newspaper chain. His twenty-two feature articles and accompanying photographs portray the squalor and degradation of the Korean people. As was the case the previous year in Great Britain, London's goal was not to condemn Korea's ruling class but to showcase the misery of Korea's mammoth lower classes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Studies in American Naturalism. Summer2018, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p69-94. 26p.
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AUTHORS, MASCULINITY, and COMIC books, strips, etc.
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The article explore the evolving artistic representation of author and social activist Jack London. Topics include London's effort to make his image as the masculine Klondike adventurer and the premier icon of the Stenouous Age, the dramatization of London's life through the films of director Hobart Bosworth, and the characterisation of London in the first comic of the series "The Youth of Corto Maltese."
Crítica i interpretació, London, Jack, 1876-1916, and Anàlisi del discurs narratiu
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The present piece of research is concerned with 12 Northern stories written by the American writer Jack London. Its goal is to apply discourse analysis as a framework to the study of narrative texts in order to find out the discursive strategies that are specific for these stories. These twelve short stories about the Klondike and the gold rush were considered to be representative in relation to the nature of this research. In the analysis of the twelve stories chosen for the corpus, the theoretical framework used is based on different linguistic trends and theories currently developing in France, Great Britain, Russia, Spain and the United States. They concern discourse linguistics, narratology and poetics. The present research has four main steps: (1) describing the peculiar characteristics of the plots; (2) showing how London creates his very special narrative world; (3) revealing the polyphonic character of these stories by distinguishing different voices through the one of the narrator and the voices of the characters; this aspect of the analysis allows us to see how these voices sound, in order to configure a world of representations; (4) studying how the writer creates certain particular effects by the use of rhetorical sets. The analysis of the linguistic features of the stories provides essential information concerning the discursive strategies and the general configuration of the twelve stories in the corpus. The conclusions demonstrate the main features of the analysed narrative texts, such as their heterogeneity in their different narrative levels; its polyphony at the enunciative level; its expressive laconism at the stylistic level; and, especially, at the level of interpretation, the proposal of an ethics of action.
Studies in American Naturalism. Winter2017, Vol. 12 Issue 2, p200-219. 20p.
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ATHLETES, SOCIALISTS, PHYSICAL training & conditioning, and DISABILITY studies
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The article focuses on issues regarding aging athletes, broken bodies, and disability in Prizefighting Prose by Jack London and Klondike stories, nautical adventures, and socialist sentiments. It mentions eugenic sentiments of Anglo-Saxon superiority and reflecting socialist concerns for underprivileged people and idealize racial fitness, masculine strength, physical conditioning, and supreme normalcy. It also mentions disability studies with naturalist narratives as American sport stories.
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