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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: 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: American Literary Realism[(essay date fall 2008) In the following essay, Berliner claims that London's adventure and nature short stories function to express his socialist ideology and provide insight into the concept of socialistic Social...
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From: Call[(essay date 14) In the following essay, Kehoe examines the treatment of coercive violence in two politically oriented short stories by London.] Item JL 1354 in the London Archive at the Huntington Library in San...
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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: The Imperialist Imaginary: Visions of Asia and the Pacific in American Culture[(essay date 2005) In the following essay, Eperjesi addresses the complicated relationship London had with Hawaiian culture and politics evident in his Hawaiian stories, concluding these works helped initiate the...
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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: 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: 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...