Literary Canon In John Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath
Under the task of exposing the darker sides of our national class history, Steinbeck's work demonstrated the plausibility of including a working-class narrative in the American
Stokes 2 literary canon, and thus serves as a prototype for modern development of class criticism in literary studies. Due to current academic undervaluing of privilege studies and class-based criticism, the text runs the risk of being read as historical fiction rather than relevant social commentary," particularly because the admission of a text like The Grapes of Wrath into the literary canon has remained largely unduplicated in our more recent cultural history. Thus, in order to fully appreciate the text as a site of changing meaning rather than a monolithic
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Stokes 2 literary canon, and thus serves as a prototype for modern development of class criticism in literary studies. Due to current academic undervaluing of privilege studies and class-based criticism, the text runs the risk of being read as historical fiction rather than relevant social commentary," particularly because the admission of a text like The Grapes of Wrath into the literary canon has remained largely unduplicated in our more recent cultural history. Thus, in order to fully appreciate the text as a site of changing meaning rather than a monolithic
resolution