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Cannon, Gerard, « The Pauline Apostleship of Tom Joad », College English 24.3 (1962): 222-224.
Carlson, Eric W. “Symbolism in The Grapes of Wrath.” College English 19.4 (Jan., 1958): 172-175.
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Crockett, H. Kelly, “The Bible and The Grapes of Wrath.” College English 24.3 (1962): 193-199.
Daiches, David. “A New Trend in American Fiction.” The English Journal 29.6 (Jun., 1940): 435-445.
Dougherty, Charles T. “The Christ-Figure in The Grapes of Wrath.” College English 24.3 (Dec., 1962): 224-226.
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Lingo, Marci. “Forbidden Fruit: The Banning of The Grapes of Wrath in the Kern County Free Library.” Libraries & Culture 38.4 (2003): 351-377. [The banning of the book from the Library + the huge numbers of migrants who went there]
McElderry, B. R. Jr. “The Grapes of Wrath in the Light of Modern Critical Theory.” College English, Vol. 5, No. 6. (Mar., 1944), pp. 308-313. [art and reality]
McWilliams, Carey. Factories in the Fields: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1939. [Révèle le « vrai visage » de la Californie: exploitation, violence…]
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Shockley, Martin Staples. “The Reception of the Grapes of Wrath in Oklahoma.” American Literature 15.4 (Jan., 1944): 351-361.
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