Steinbeck's Ecological Holism: Scientific Thinking And Environmental Vision

John Steinbeck was one of the best-known American novelists of the 20th Century. He won both Pulitzer and Nobel Prize for his literature, and was also an amateur marine ecologist, a fact that has been neglected by many literary critics and scholars. This thesis bypasses his notable fictional works, introduces his three most important life experiences which greatly influenced his ecological holism in virtue of his memoir and his quasi-autobiographical fictions set in his hometown and tries to reread his three non-fictional works The Log of Sea of Cortez, Travels with Charley and America and Americans from the perspective of ecology and environmental vision in terms of ecocriticism, to expound the novelist's ecological holism and environmental consciousness.