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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionJack London is generally regarded as a master of naturalistic fiction. As such, his stories deal with the larger assumptions of naturalism that are based on both Darwinism and Marxism. In London's fiction humanity is...
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From:Gale Online Encyclopedia[Widdicombe is a freelance editor of college textbooks who lives in Alaska. In the essay below, she examines the mysterious effect of the merciless cold in “To Build a Fire” and in everyday Alaskan life.] The third...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Jack London was a talented writer so caught up in certain myths that they were part of what destroyed him. The illegitimate son of an impoverished spiritualist, Flora Wellman, he early learned self-reliance. Although he...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersThe works of Jack London, author of some twenty novels and novellas and over one hundred short stories, are marked by an enormous amount of preparation; he once asserted that he suffered a "lack of origination" and had...
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From: Western American Literature[(essay date fall 1988) In the following essay, Reesman examines London's approach to knowledge in his story "The Water Baby," claiming that his South Sea tales of that period illustrate the influence of Carl Jung's...
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From: Children's Literature[(essay date 1976) In the following essay, Ward surveys several of London's short stories written specifically for children.] Jack London is best known as the author of The Call of the Wild and The Sea-Wolf, a handful...
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From: Exotic Journeys: Exploring the Erotics of U.S. Travel Literature, 1840-1930[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Edwards elucidates the homosocial attachments in "The Sheriff of Kona" and "The Heathen."] All my life I had sought an ideal chum--such things as ideals are never obtainable,...
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[(essay date fall 1997) In the following essay, Riedl and Tietze argue that modern critical approaches to "The Chinago" and "The Whale Tooth" reveal the central theme of both stories to be the "reliance on text to...
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From: Jack London: One Hundred Years a Writer[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Berkove characterizes London's later fiction as "intellectually sophisticated and surprisingly subtle," providing a fresh opportunity for readers and critics to assess his...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionDuring his relatively short life, London produced numerous novels and stories as well as political journalism and travel writing. Though most of his work is both eloquent and compelling, some obviously was written so...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)In the Soviet Union, Jack London is regarded as one of the greatest of American writers, chiefly because of such sentiments as are found in now-obscure works of his such as "A Night with the Philomaths." There he has a...
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From: Rereading Jack London[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, Walsh asserts that "Shin Bones" reveals London's concern with and approach to history.] I think that there are only three places that are of value enough to be taken. One is...
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From: Jack London's Tales of Cannibals and Headhunters: Nine South Seas Stories by America's Master of Adventure[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Riedl and Tietze praise London's achievement in his South Sea stories in providing an insightful and powerful examination of the social issues that confronted the Pacific region...
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From: Jack London[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, Labor and Reesman contend that the short fiction of London's Jungian period is characterized by originality, openness to new ideas, and a view of women that alienated him from...
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From: Psychological Perspectives[(essay date 1980) In the following essay, Kirsch provides a Jungian analysis of London and his story "The Red One."] It is with some hesitation that I have chosen to write about Jack London. I am not one of the lucky...
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From: Jack London: A Study of the Short Fiction[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Reesman discusses London as a radically experimental writer who was able to successfully convey unusual characters, settings, and subject matter during his short but prolific...
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From: American Literary Realism, 1870-1910[(essay date fall 2002) In the following essay, Swift maintains that "The Unparalleled Invasion" articulates London's racial anxiety and envisions scientific advances that simultaneously exacerbate and quell racial...
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From: Jack London's Strong Truths[(essay date 1975) In the following essay, originally published in 1975, McClintock finds the key theme of London's Malemute Kid stories in The Son of the Wolf to be "an optimistic affirmation of man's power to defy...
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From:St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.)Jack London is among the more important American SF writers by virtue of his attention to social and political extrapolation, matters all too often ignored by his compatriots. In almost all of London's science fiction,...
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[(essay date winter 1995) In the following essay, Kratzke maintains that London's point of view on law throughout the stories comprising The Son of the Wolf is essentially optimistic.] At issue to Jack London's first...