عنوان

Exodus Inverted:

شماره

LA125035

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Exodus Inverted:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

A New Look at The Grapes of Wrath

نام نخستين پديدآور

Ken Eckert

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath has been read typically as period social activism, as sentimental Marxist fable, and as watered-down Christian theology via its failed preacher, Jim Casy. Religious interpretations have at best seen the text as an allegorical reenactment of Exodus. Yet such criticism requires a willful misreading of the text, as the Joads end the story not in a promised land but destitute. The novel makes more sense, however, if seen as a reversal of Exodus. The Joads progress from a despoiled but occupied promised land (Oklahoma) toward bondage in Egypt (California). This extended image pattern permits Steinbeck to draw a larger thematic vision in which material poverty teaches the Joads a broadly Christian worldview. Far from ending in despair, the novel closes in the Joads emerging from a self-satisfied and legalistic moralism into a new ethos of universal love in the pattern of Christ, culminating in Rose of Sharon's spiritual maturity in her selfless act at the novel's end when the family finally moves from "I" to "we." John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath has been read typically as period social activism, as sentimental Marxist fable, and as watered-down Christian theology via its failed preacher, Jim Casy. Religious interpretations have at best seen the text as an allegorical reenactment of Exodus. Yet such criticism requires a willful misreading of the text, as the Joads end the story not in a promised land but destitute. The novel makes more sense, however, if seen as a reversal of Exodus. The Joads progress from a despoiled but occupied promised land (Oklahoma) toward bondage in Egypt (California). This extended image pattern permits Steinbeck to draw a larger thematic vision in which material poverty teaches the Joads a broadly Christian worldview. Far from ending in despair, the novel closes in the Joads emerging from a self-satisfied and legalistic moralism into a new ethos of universal love in the pattern of Christ, culminating in Rose of Sharon's spiritual maturity in her selfless act at the novel's end when the family finally moves from "I" to "we."

تاريخ نشر

2009

توصيف ظاهري

534-545

عنوان

Religion and the Arts

شماره جلد

13/4

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5292

اصطلاح موضوعی

Art History

اصطلاح موضوعی

CALIFORNIA

اصطلاح موضوعی

CHRISTIAN ALLEGORY

اصطلاح موضوعی

Comparative Religion & Religious Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

EXODUS

اصطلاح موضوعی

General

اصطلاح موضوعی

GRAPES OF WRATH

اصطلاح موضوعی

History

اصطلاح موضوعی

ISRAELITES

اصطلاح موضوعی

OKLAHOMA

اصطلاح موضوعی

Religious Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

STEINBECK

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Ken Eckert

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/156852909X460447

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y