Jack London A Man In Search Of Meaning
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Author | : Stewart Gabel |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2012-11-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1477283323 |
Jack London was the best known and probably the most widely read American author at the turn of the 20th century. London was interested in the issues of who humans are in relation to one another, to other species, and to life itself. Much of Londons life and writing can be viewed from psychological perspectives as an exploration of the issue of meaning in life generally and as a quest for meaning in his own life. C. G. Jung was an early psychoanalyst who broke from Freud and established his own school of analytical psychology. Jung was himself intensely concerned with the issue of meaning. For Jung, the decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? (page 325). Jack London certainly would have agreed with the crucial nature of this question. In Jack London: A Man in Search of Meaning. Jungian Perspectives, the author uses the prism of analytical psychology to examine Londons life and quest for meaning from deeply psychological and archetypal perspectives that are revealed in Londons writings, both fictional and nonfictional. The book begins with a brief biographical sketch and personality description of Jack London. This is followed by a focus on the question of meaning in his life. The next chapter addresses the issue of meaning from the perspective of analytical psychology (Jung). Selected fiction from three periods in Londons career is considered analytically in subsequent chapters. These periods are his early adult, middle and last years. The discussion of each work of fiction is preceded by a brief biographical statement of events in Londons life at the time of the writing and a brief review of the narrative. A concluding chapter summarizes Londons quest for meaning and where it might have led him from the perspectives of analytical psychology if he had lived beyond his untimely death at 40 years of age. There are two appendices. One contains a longer biographical statement (Appendix A). The second (Appendix B) provides longer, more detailed summaries of the works that are discussed. These longer descriptions include quotes from the texts, themselves, that reveal the immediacy, passion and soulful flavor of so much of Londons writings.
Author | : Jack London |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1991-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780808404361 |
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Author | : Jack London |
Publisher | : The Creative Company |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781583415870 |
Describes the experiences of a newcomer to the Yukon when he attempts to hike through the snow to reach a mining claim.
Author | : Jack London |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2018-02-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781985698659 |
Both men were ill-prepared for life in the North, and were meant to symbolize "civilized" men, by their underestimation of nature's.
Author | : Earle Labor |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0374178488 |
"The first authorized biography of a great American novelist"--
Author | : Jack London |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1912 |
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Author | : Jack London |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Alcoholics |
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Author | : Hannes Krehan |
Publisher | : Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag) |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3954891859 |
The author analyzes three books on escapism and the various ways in which it is represented in them. He focuses on Alex Garland’s backpacker cult novel 'The Beach' and William Sutcliffe’s satire of the gap-year traveler 'Are You Experienced?' as well as Jon Krakauer’s non-fiction book 'Into the Wild'.The first part of the analysis deals with the influence of literary genres like the Bildungsroman and travel literature. Unreliable narration as a narrative strategy is taken into consideration, as well as the colonial subtext of 'The Beach' and 'Are You Experienced?'. In 'Into the Wild' nature writing and road narratives are an integral part of the narrative.The second part deals with cultural aspects such as questions of authenticity that are raised during the narratives, the role of drugs as a means of escape, and also the problematic relationship between travelers and tourists. Finally, the author compares two film adaptations, Danny Boyle’s 'The Beach' (2000) and Sean Penn’s 'Into the Wild' (2007), with their corresponding literary source texts.
Author | : Jack London |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Death row inmates |
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"The Star Rover is an imaginative flight into man's history, rendered in London's most realistic terms. It is the story of Darrell Standing, condemned to solitary confinement in a corrupt prison, who learns to free his soul from his body and escape his pain, to go winging off through space and time."-From dust jacket.
Author | : Jack London |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2009-08-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101105240 |
The Call of the Wild is Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Harrison Ford! Out of the white wilderness, out of the Far North, Jack London, one of America’s most popular authors, drew the inspiration for his robust tales of perilous adventure and animal cunning. Swiftly paced and vividly written, the novel and five short stories included here capture the main theme of London’s work: the law of the club and the fang—man’s instinctive reversion to primitive behavior when pitted against the brute force of nature. Includes The Call of the Wild, Diable: A Dog, An Odyssey of the North, To the Man on the Trail, To Build a Fire, and Love of Life