Upton Sinclair: The Lithuanian Jungle

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Collection:
Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
Document Type:
Knygų dalys / Parts of the books
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
Upton Sinclair: The Lithuanian Jungle
Authors:
Subačius, Giedrius
Publication Data:
Amsterdam ; : New York :, 2006.
Pages:
xi, 102 p
Series:
On the boundary of two worlds; 5
Contents:
Acknowledgements — Foreword — ONE. Sinclair's Sources and His Choice of Lithuanian Characters: 1. Sinclair's Method of Gathering Material for His Novel; 2. Immigrants in the Chicago Stockyards; 3. Two Main Lithuanian Sources for The Jungle: 3.1. The Lithuanian Wedding; 3.2. Ernest Poole's (Kaztauskis's) Text; 4. The Wedding, Kaztauskis's Story, and Lithuanian — TWO. The Lithuanian Language: 1. Sinclair's Passion for Foreign Languages; 2. Lithuanian Words and Phrases: 2.1. Dialects; 2.2. Orthography; 2.3. Colloquial versus Literary Language; 2.4. Errors; 2.5. Editing; 2.6. Numbers and Frequency; 3. Surnames — THREE. Specific Locations: 1. Carey's Dump; 2. Back of the Yards; 3. The Wedding Feast Saloon; 4. The Church of the Wedding Ceremony — FOUR. Conclusion — Bibliography — Abbreviations — Index.
Subject Category:
LT
Literatūros istorija / Literary history; Kalbos vartojimas. Sociolingvistika / Language use. Sociolinguistics; Literatūros teorija ir kritika / Literary science and criticism; Proza / Prose.
Summary / Abstract:

ENIn his legendary novel The Jungle (1905 and 1906), Upton Sinclair included a conspicuous number of Lithuanian words, phrases and surnames. This volume is the first attempt to analyze aspects of Lithuanian linguistic and historical data from The Jungle. Sinclair discovered the Lithuanian language in Chicago and explored it with pleasure. He even confessed to having sang in Lithuanian. If you look for “a Lithuanian linguist” working in field-research conditions in Chicago’s Back of the Yards—there is Upton Sinclair! The book targets Sinclair’s motives for choosing Lithuanian characters, his sources and his work methods in “field-research” conditions in Chicago. Some real-life individuals—Lithuanian name-donors for the protagonists of The Jungle—are presented in this volume. Certain details of the turn-of-the-century Chicago depicted in The Jungle are also revealed—for example, the saloon where the actual Lithuanian wedding feast took place and its owner. This volume is of interest to American literary historians, sociolinguists, language historians, and those interested in the history of Lithuanian immigration to America and the immigrant experience in Chicago.

DOI:
10.1163/9789401202404
ISBN:
9789401202404; 9789042018792
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