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LITERATURE: Cannery Row – Wrap Up

Posted on January 5, 2006 by susan

It is a great matter to observe propriety in these several modes of expression, as also in compound words, strange (or rare) words, and so forth.  But the greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor.  This … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Cannery Row – In Review

Posted on January 5, 2006 by susan

I stopped too soon, and yet while another party rages as before–again, intent gone astray as led instead by human nature–the meaning is there and vague, unclear. Doc enjoys this second party; a surprise he soon finds out about and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Cannery Row – Metaphor

Posted on January 4, 2006 by susan

"The element of the wonderful is required in Tragedy.  The irrational, on which the wonderful depends for its chief effects, has wider scope in Epic poetry, because there the person acting is not seen."   Aristotle, Poetics, Part XXV Mary Talbot, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Cannery Row – Story

Posted on January 4, 2006 by susan

I’m finally getting to finish this novel, having sidetracked myself for the better part of a week or more in analyzing it.  I find, having ventured a few chapters further that the episode of the planning and the party for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Aristotle on Steinbeck

Posted on January 3, 2006 by susan

Unreal.  I’m up to twelve pages, single-spaced, and still working.  Although the vast majority of the text is taken up in quotations from either Poetics or Cannery Row, there is some input by me in comment.  This is not what … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: An Essay on Cannery Row

Posted on December 31, 2005 by susan

It doesn’t look like I’ve done much yet, but I don’t have a written outline–that’s not my style of writing–so I just started from point A and with the help of my notes, will continue on from there.  But, just … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Aristotle on Steinbeck

Posted on December 31, 2005 by susan

This post started out as a comment in response to those by Steve and Mark at this post of mine, but in my usual rambling manner, got too ungainly to fit into one of those little comment boxes: I think … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Cannery Row – Aristotle on Plot – (Just a Beginning)

Posted on December 30, 2005 by susan

Yes, story is important, although it need not be epic in nature, just something that touches the heart or stirs the mind to interest.  For me, the enjoyable journey through a story is fed by good writing.  I can’t get … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Cannery Row and Poetics

Posted on December 29, 2005 by susan

A most interesting development in the reading… For many chapters, Mack and the boys have been planning a party for Doc just to show their appreciation of him.  Well, it starts out as they need to make money to be … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Cannery Row – Character as Statement

Posted on December 29, 2005 by susan

When a writer wants to express more than a story, when he wants to reveal not just a personality but a human trait, one of the best means is through one of the characters in a segment of story.  Steinbeck … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Cannery Row – Imagery

Posted on December 28, 2005 by susan

There are several forms of imagery:  simile, metaphor, solid description.  Steinbeck uses them all to best advantage, but in his description he is concise, that is, using many words perhaps, but each word is strung in a list that results … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Cannery Row – And Suttree

Posted on December 28, 2005 by susan

I’m sure the comparison has been made, not only in the writing styles of Steinbeck and McCarthy, but in these two novels in particular. Each holds a treasure box of character, history and a hard look at a society that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Cannery Row – Narrative Structure through Setting

Posted on December 27, 2005 by susan

While there seems to be a narrative structure introduced by “In the evening, just at dusk, a curious thing happened on Cannery Row.” (p. 24) for example, the chapters appear more to be unrelated episodes from the overall lives of … Continue reading →

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