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The Wide World Of Jack London, Howard Lawrence Lachtman
The Wide World Of Jack London, Howard Lawrence Lachtman
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
The high apostle of the adventure tale in the Strenuous Age, Jack London has never really relinquished the popularity which made him before his death one of the best known and, most widely read writers in the world. It is true that more than one pontiff of literary taste has consigned him to the same, "obsolete" file that contains the remains of Richard Harding Davis, David Graham Phillips, William Sidney Porter, but such reports of London's demise have undoubtedly been premature. Indeed, the contemporary momentum of Jack London studies affords excellent evidence of the critical rediscovery of an American legend. …
Jews In The Mirror: From Hatred To Reconciliation In American-Jewish Fiction., Joseph D. Gallo
Jews In The Mirror: From Hatred To Reconciliation In American-Jewish Fiction., Joseph D. Gallo
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
Isaac Rosenfeld's short novel The Colony1 is an orwellian allegory which on a significant level explores the range of attitudes expressed by contemporary Jews toward themselves and other Jews. Set in an exotic fictional country on the Indian subcontinent, the narrative pits the intellectual Satya, successor to a prophet-like leader, against the machinations of a controlling technology given to efficiency and the waging of modern war. During a rally at which he urges his audience to passively "despise and disobey," Satya is seized and imprisoned, whereupon his true ordeal begins. He is accosted by foes even more formidable than …