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San José Studies, November 1975 San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks San José Studies, 1970s San José Studies 11-1-1975 San José Studies, November 1975 San José State University Foundation Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sanjosestudies_70s Part of the American Literature Commons, and the Literature in English, North America Commons Recommended Citation San José State University Foundation, "San José Studies, November 1975" (1975). San José Studies, 1970s. 3. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sanjosestudies_70s/3 This Journal is brought to you for free and open access by the San José Studies at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in San José Studies, 1970s by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Portrait by Uarnaby Conrad (Courtesy of Steinbeck Research Center) John Steinbeck SAN JOSE STUDIES Volume I, Number 3 November 1975 ARTICLES Warren French 9 The "California Quality" of Steinbeck's Best Fiction Peter Lisca 21 Connery Row and the Too Teh Ching Roy S. Simmonds 29 John Steinbeck, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Edith McGillcuddy Martha Heasley Cox 41 In Search of John Steinbeck: His People and His Land Richard Astro 61 John Steinbeck and the Tragic Miracle of Consciousness Martha Heasley Cox 73 The Conclusion of The Gropes of Wroth: Steinbeck's Conception and Execution Jaclyn Caselli 83 John Steinbeck and the American Patchwork Quilt John Ditsky . 89 The Wayward Bus: Love and Time in America Robert E. Work 103 Steinbeck and the Spartan Doily INTERVIEWS Webster F. Street 109 Remembering John Steinbeck Adrian H. Goldstone 129 Book Collecting and Steinbeck BOOK REVIEWS Robert DeMott 136 Nelson Valjean. John Steinbeck: The Errant Knight Joseph Fontenrose 139 Howard Levant. The Novels of John Steinbeck 142 Notes on Contributors 5 Acknowledgements 6 Announcements 144 Subscription Information SAN JOSE STUDIES Volume I, Number 3 November 1975 EDITOR Arlene N. Okerlund ASSOCIATE EDITORS Billie B. Jensen Ellen C. Weaver GUEST EDITORS: STEINBECK ISSUE Martha H. Cox Robert H. Woodward EDITORIAL BOARD Richard Ingraham Robert Spaulding Leon Lee Jack Sutherland James Murphy O.C. Williams Ralph Parkman Celia de Zapata COMMITTEE OF TRUSTEES Howard Burman Vida Kenk Hobert W. Burns Rose Tseng Warren W. Faus Dirk Wassenaar John Galrn Gerald Wheeler W. Donald Head Robert H. Woodward BUSINESS MANAGER John Sullivan GRAPHICS CONSULTANTS Jack Canty Nancy Favier Doris Gilbert SAN JOSE STUDIES is published in February, May, and November by San Jose State University, San Jose, California 95192 MANUSCRIPTS. 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(Additional information and a subscription form appear on page 144.) 5 Announcements The November 1976 issue of San Jose Studies will feature articles pertaining to the bicentennials of the United States of America and the city of San Jose, California. Manuscripts from all disciplines will be welcomed and should be submitted to The Editors by May 1, 1976. San Jose State University will co-sponser a conference on Interamerican Women Writers to be held April 10 and 11, 1976 at San Josl!' State University, San Jose, California 95192.Inquiries may be addressed to Yvette Miller, Latin American Literary Review, Department of Modern Languages, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania 15213 or Celia de Zapata, Department of Foreign Languages, San Jose State University, San Jose, California 95192. Deadline for submission of papers: February 15, 1976. Articles appearing in San JoseStudies are indexed or abstracted in the following publications: America: History and Life Biological Abstracts Historical Abstracts Indexes of The H.W. Wilson Company Language and Language Behavior Abstracts Modern Humanities Research Association: Annual Bibliography MLA Abstracts MLA International Bibliography Sociological Abstracts Women Studies Abstracts 6 ARTICLES Ron Burda "The black pines that guard the landward limits of Monterey." Tortilla Flat Carol Woodward TI1e Steinbeck House- "an immaculate and friendly house, grand enough but not pretentious." East of Eden The ftCalifornia Quality" of Steinbeck's Best Fiction Warren French "It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment. " Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage UST about all commentators agree that there was a marked decline in the artistry of John Steinbeck's fiction after World War II, specifically J in the short period during the dying days of the war between his writing of the wistfully ironic tragi-farces Cannery Row and A Medal for Benny (film, 1945) and the first appearance of the ponderously allegorical The Pearl as "The Pearl of the World" in Woman's Home Companion for December, 1945. There has been no agreement, however, about the causes of this precipitate deflation of our most powerfully emotional protest writer since the nine­ teenth-century's Henry Thoreau and Harriet Beecher Stowe into a heavy­ handed scourge of affluent decadence, best lumped with such already half-forgotten moralizers as Frederic Wakeman (The Hucksters) and Philip Wylie (A Generation of Vipers). Steinbeck's "decline" has been principally and reasonably linked with the sudden loss of his influential friend and advisor, marine biologist Ed Ricketts (although Ricketts was not killed in an accident until 1948), the break-up of his first marriage, and the problems of a short-lived second marriage during which he fathered two sons, his only children. In John Steinbeck (1961), I acknowledged the possible influence of these events, but I stressed the effect of Steinbeck's moving from California to New York City, a gradual process during the war years, as the cause of his increasing penchant for the kind of two-dimensional allegory that George Orwell and William Golding have produced. As Lawrence William Jones has illustrated in John Steinbeck as Fabulist (1973), Steinbeck devoted himself after World War II almost exclusively to "fables" rather than fuller-bodied "novels." As one of those who had fallen under the spell of his earlier work, I wrote fifteen years ago that "Steinbeck unquestionably started downhill when he 9 left California"; and no new evidence or theories since that time have changed my mind. "His best books deal with persons and places he knew intimately," I went on; but I argued that in the books beginning in 1945, "allegory overwhelmed experience."1 I did not have the space in that book to develop this concluding observation. In a completely revised version of John Steinbeck published this year (I 975), I felt compelled to concentrate on delineating a change in Steinbeck's fiction from "Naturalistic" in the 1930s to "drama of consciousness," beginning with The Grapes of Wrath. While the psychological forces involved in Steinbeck's
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