Upton Sinclair
副标题: The Lithuanian Jungle--Upon the Centenary of The Jungle (1905 and 1906) by Upton Sinclair (On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom ... Freedom, & Moral Imagination in the Baltics)
ISBN: 9789042018792
出版社: Editions Rodopi BV
出版年: 2006-03-31
定价: USD 31.00
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
In his legendary novel The Jungle (1905 and 1906), Upton Sinclair included a conspicuous number of Lithuanian words, phrases and surnames. This volume is the first attempt to analyze aspects of Lithuanian linguistic and historical data from The Jungle. Sinclair discovered the Lithuanian language in Chicago and explored it with pleasure. He even confessed to having sang in Lithuanian. If you look for "a Lithuanian linguist" working in field-research conditions in Chicago's Back of the Yardsthere is Upton Sinclair!
The book targets Sinclair's motives for choosing Lithuanian characters, his sources and his work methods in "field-research" conditions in Chicago. Some real-life individualsLithuanian name-donors for the protagonists of The Jungleare presented in this volume. Certain details of the turn-of-the-century Chicago depicted in The Jungle are also revealedfor example, the saloon where the actual Lithuanian wedding feast took place and its owner.
This volume is of interest to American literary historians, sociolinguists, language historians, and those interested in the history of Lithuanian immigration to America and the immigrant experience in Chicago.