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Article: Works of John Steinbeck: Comment, Cannery Row
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Steinbeck, John
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Comment, Cannery Row
A Moral Criticism
The critic Malcolm Cowley described Cannery Row as a "poisoned cream
puff," and the fact that John Steinbeck agreed with him should give pause to
any reader who sees the book simply as a literary confection. "Poison,"
however, seems a rather strong word for a book which is certainly no more
shocking to reader peace-of-mind than are other Steinbeck works. Perhaps
Cowley was warning that readers often react strongly to Cannery Row because
they are not quite prepared to find Steinbeck the moralist so stubbornly
implanted in Steinbeck the reconteur, storyteller, or genial (and apparently
pagan) philosopher.
For ...
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Article: Steinbeck might not know `new'Cannery Row
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;
September 9, 1998 ;
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... ... shame, the author John Steinbeck described Cannery Row as "a poem, a ... century ago. Today Cannery Row is crowded with ... and places like John Steinbeck's Spirit of Monterey ... Hotelling of the Cannery Row Foundation. By ...
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