Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [341]-347.

The grapes of wrath : the tragedy of the American sharecropper (review) ; The grapes of wrath tops year's tales in heart and art (review) / Charles Lee -- Farm tenancy central theme of Steinbeck (review) / Fritz Raley Simmons -- John Steinbeck : naturalism's priest / Woodburn O. Ross -- Proletarian leanings / George F. Whicher -- The grapes of wrath / Joseph Fontenrose -- Steinbeck and Hemingway : suggestions for a comparative study / Peter Lisca -- Water imagery and the conclusion to The grapes of wrath / Collin G. Matton -- John Steinbeck's spatial imagination in The grapes of wrath / George Henderson -- Dialogic structure and levels of discourse in Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath / Louis Owens and Hector Torres -- The squatter's circle in The grapes of wrath / John H. Timmerman -- Steinbeck's debt to Dos Passos / Barry G. Maine -- The world of John Steinbeck's Joads / Robert Murray Davis -- Poor whites : Joads and Snopeses / Abby H.P. Werlock -- California answers The grapes of wrath / Susan Shillinglaw -- Audience and closure in The grapes of wrath / Nicholas Visser -- The Darwinian Grapes of wrath / Brian E. Railsback -- Judge, observer, prophet : the American Cain and Steinbeck's shifting perspective / Barbara A. Heavilin -- A postmodern Steinbeck, or Rose of Sharon meets Oedipa Maas / Chris Kocela -- Steinbeck and the critics : a study in artistic self-concept / Michael Meyer -- The grapes of wrath and the literary canon of American universities in the nineties / Mary M. Brown -- The enduring values of John Steinbeck's fiction : the university student and The grapes of wrath / Kenneth Swan -- Honoring an American classic : Viking's 1989 edition of John Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath (review) / Linda C. Pelzer -- The 1993 Everyman's Library edition of John Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath (review) ; The 1996 Library of America edition of John Steinbeck's "The grapes of wrath" and other writings, 1936-1941 (review) / Barbara A. Heavilin -- Viking's 1997 edition of John Steinbeck's "The grapes of wrath" : text and criticism (review) / Beverly K. Simpson -- Fermenting The grapes of wrath : from violent anger distilling sweet concord / Michael Meyer.