I. E. Lunina. The artistic world of Jack London: A monograph

Abstract

I. Lunina’s monograph deals with the realisation of a triad ‘man — nature — civilisation’ in Jack London’s artistic world. Lunina employs a method that addresses the problem of the genre, describing London’s artistic world as a conglomerate of artistic worlds of his short stories, novels, and journalism. The analysis of his novels, primarily The Sea-Wolf, The Star Rover, The Iron Heel, and Martin Eden, as well as Stories of the North and Stories of the South and sketches, prompts a conversation about London’s profound understanding of the unique character of the interactions between nature, culture and civilisation, and of their power to affect the self-identification of a human being in an ever-changing environment.