White Logic
Jack London's Short Stories
Description:... White Logic: Jack London's Short Stories is a highly readable explication of the work of one of America's masters of the genre, the first literary figure to incorporate the great turn-of-the-century revolutions in thinking about the natural, social and psychological worlds into his vision. These revolutionary ideas were powerful because, on the one hand, they promised a new and better world; on the other, they hinted at an approaching spiritual bankruptcy and social apocalypse. Focused on Jack London's nineteen volumes of short stories, it was one of the first studies to challenge easy, often condescending, generalizations about London's fiction and to offer a balanced, tightly-reasoned analysis of his impassioned, albeit often "exasperatingly uneven artistry." It remains the most frequently cited work on London's short fiction.
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