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Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies -
Literature, grade: 2,0, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel
(Englisches Seminar), 8 entries in the bibliography, language:
English, abstract: This work deals with concepts of ownership in
terms of land in the novel "A Thousand Acres" written by Jane
Smiley. The novel was written in 1991 and was rewarded a Pulitzer
Prize. Jane Smiley rewrote the Shakespearean play King Lear by
narrating the story from the eldest daughter's point of view.
However, A Thousand Acres is not only a rewriting of Shakespeare's
work, it also comments on the social and agricultural circumstances
in the United States of the 1960s and 70s, where the novel is set.
Her critique in this novel points towards industrialised farming
and the exploitation of land and its resources. The aim of the
paper ist to find out how agriculture and farming are represented
in "A Thousand Acres." How does Jane Smiley describe the results of
industrialised farming? Is there any return? How do people cope
with agribusiness and its consequences? What is the structure of
the society that lives for agribusiness? In the course of answering
these questions I will try to draw relating problems between
Smiley's "A Thousand Acres" and Shakespeare's "King Lear" and will
try to point out the differences between the novel and the play in
matters pertaining to concepts of land-ownership.
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