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• The Problem of Knowledge in Jack London's 'The Water Baby'

  From: Western American Literature

  Fall 19886,604 words Critical essay [(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...

• Historical Discourses in Jack London's 'Shin Bones'

  From: Rereading Jack London

  19966,027 words Critical essay [(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...

• Beyond the Literary Marketplace: The Quest for Self

  From: Jack London

  199412,157 words Critical essay [(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...

• Rebirth: 1916

  From: Jack London's Strong Truths

  19979,288 words Critical essay [(essay date 1975) In the following essay, originally published in 1975, McClintock investigates the influence of contemporary psychoanalytic theory--particularly Jung's Psychology of the Unconscious--on London's 1916...