Northern stories

AMERICAN INDIAN HEROES OF J.LONDON'S STORIES


Plan:

Chapter 1 The subject of "Northern stories" by D. London

1.1. London treats its heroes differently
1.2. Characters from Jack London's Northern Tales
1.3. A truly heroic female image was created by London in the story
Chapter 2 Other elements of poetics in D. London's "Northern Tales" (landscape, interior, portraits, the role of objects in stories)
2.1. Meet near London and mixed types of stories
2.2. Traditionalism in D. London's "Northern Tales"
2.3. Smoke Bellew not only admires life in the North.
Conclusion
Bibliography


Introduction

One of the most attractive beginnings in London's work is the romance of man's overcoming of himself, of rising above what until recently he himself seemed to be the limit of the possible.

London became an early adult, a pillar of the family, "a man equal among men," as he writes in his autobiography. He was a worker at a canning factory and an "oyster pirate", a sailor and a stoker... All this had nothing to do with secret dreams of literature, but all this made up a unique, precious life experience for the future writer. After riding the railroad all over America from west to east as a private in an army of the unemployed, and then serving a month in prison for vagrancy, Jack had reason to write: “I visited the basement of society, those dungeons of poverty that are considered indecent to talk about ¹. ”
In the mid-1990s, he became an active member of the Socialist Workers' Party. But neither politics nor literature could provide funds to feed the family, and when the rumor about the “golden” Klondike spread, Jack London did not hesitate (in the spring of 1897) to go there: “I again walked the road of adventure and pursued luck.” He returned back a year later, without golden sand, but with an invaluable store of impressions. The future writer deeply felt the harsh beauty and poetry of the North; during the long arctic winter, Indians, tramps, gold miners and adventurers stayed in his hut - each with their own, sometimes surprising, history. These impressions fueled Jack London's work from the first collection of northern stories (Son of the Wolf, 1901) to the last series of these stories, Smoke Belew, published four years before London's death.
Northern Tales were the first works of young London to be a great success with readers. They appeared on the pages of periodicals at the very end of the 19th century, and then were collected in the collection Son of the Wolf, published in 1900. It was followed by collections: The God of His Fathers and Other Stories (1901), Children of Frost (1902), Faith in Man and Other Stories (1904), Contempt of a Woman (1906), Love for life "and other stories" (1906), "The Lost Face" (1910), "Smoke Bellew " (1912).
One of the most attractive beginnings in London's work is the romance of man's overcoming of himself, of rising above what until recently he himself seemed to be the limit of the possible. It is the man who becomes the center of the narrative of Jack London's "Northern Tales" cycle. However, on the pages of his works, Jack London appears not only as a dispassionate analyst, but as an artist of the word. Each story is truly a work of art of the master, a separate link in the chain of narration, a complete picture of the events described by Jack London in Northern Tales.
The purpose of the thesis is to analyze the poetics of Jack London's "Northern Tales".
The objectives of the thesis research can be formulated as follows:

1. 
   consider the themes and compositional features of Jack London's "Northern Tales";
   
2. 
   analyze the system of characters of the above cycle of stories;
   
3. 
   to identify the role of various elements of poetics in the "Northern stories", as well as to consider their traditional character.
   

The object of study in the work was the "Northern stories" by D. London.
Research methods:

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  reading the text "following the author"
  
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  cultural and historical analysis.
  

novelty of the study: since 1964, the poetics of northern stories has not been covered in critical sources.
In the process of writing the thesis, the works of N. Bogoslovsky, A. France, V. Bykov, R. Samarin, P. Fedunov and others were studied, and an independent analysis of the text of D. London's Northern Tales was also made. In criticism, Jack London's work is considered quite versatile: if N. Bogoslovsky conducts a deep analysis of London's works (he is especially interested in the writer's artistic method), then V. Bykov, P. Fedunova and others focus their attention on the creative path of the writer,
The novelty of the research: the work can be used in the study of English and American literature of the twentieth century.
Structure of the work: introduction, 4 chapters, conclusion and bibliography