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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: 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: 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: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: Rereading Jack London[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, Berkove argues that "The Red One" reflects London's interest in a myriad of different theories and influences--Freudian and Jungian psychology, Darwinism, mythology, skepticism,...
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From: Jack London's Strong Truths[(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...
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From: Jack London[(essay date 1984) In the following essay, Beauchamp considers London's science fiction short stories in chronological order, concluding that they are inconsistent in subject matter and quality.] London's...