『코르테즈 바다에 관한 항해 일지』: 존 스타인벡의 생태체험과 문화인식
The Log from the Sea of Cortez: John Steinbeck’s Ecological Experience and Cultural Recognition
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This paper aims at analyzing John Steinbeck’s ecological experience and cultural recognition through The Log from the Sea of Cortez, which contains Steinbeck's longest, most focused treatment of ecology and seems the perfect place for him to develop an environmentalist position. John Steinbeck had a high interest in marine biology, one that helped forge an extraordinary friendship with Ed Ricketts in the 1930s. Ricketts, the model for Doc in Cannery Row, was a professional biologist living in Monterey. He proposed an exploration of the Gulf of California and he and Steinbeck set sail on a rented boat with a colorful crew that should have suggested a sea novel along the lines of Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat. The original result from this trip was the book The Log from the Sea of Cortez. This book is filled with the imagery of a warm coastal area and with the wonder and scientific knowledge of marine life. Steinbeck also takes the occasion to explore his own philosophy which he defines and explores at length what he calls “teleological” and “non-teleological” thinking. Moreover, he presents ecology in a constant and tension-filled juxtaposition with the cultural norms of the United States. Therefore, in this paper I studied the ways that monstrosity mediated the interactions of environmentalism, ecology, and culture constitutes one way of escaping a diagnostic approach to Steinbeck’s environmentalism that ultimately offers a much broader understanding of how Steinbeck viewed the workings of American mass culture, why his ecological views and environmental activism stopped where they did, and exactly how high the stakes were for potential radical environmentalists in the mid-twentieth century United States through The Log from the Sea of Cortez.
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This paper aims at analyzing John Steinbeck’s ecological experience and cultural recognition through The Log from the Sea of Cortez, which contains Steinbeck's longest, most focused treatment of ecology and seems the perfect place for him to develop an environmentalist position. John Steinbeck had a high interest in marine biology, one that helped forge an extraordinary friendship with Ed Ricketts in the 1930s. Ricketts, the model for Doc in Cannery Row, was a professional biologist living in Monterey. He proposed an exploration of the Gulf of California and he and Steinbeck set sail on a rented boat with a colorful crew that should have suggested a sea novel along the lines of Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat. The original result from this trip was the book The Log from the Sea of Cortez. This book is filled with the imagery of a warm coastal area and with the wonder and scientific knowledge of marine life. Steinbeck also takes the occasion to explore his own philosophy which he defines and explores at length what he calls “teleological” and “non-teleological” thinking. Moreover, he presents ecology in a constant and tension-filled juxtaposition with the cultural norms of the United States. Therefore, in this paper I studied the ways that monstrosity mediated the interactions of environmentalism, ecology, and culture constitutes one way of escaping a diagnostic approach to Steinbeck’s environmentalism that ultimately offers a much broader understanding of how Steinbeck viewed the workings of American mass culture, why his ecological views and environmental activism stopped where they did, and exactly how high the stakes were for potential radical environmentalists in the mid-twentieth century United States through The Log from the Sea of Cortez.
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