Abstract
The article discusses the popularity of John Steinbeck’s novel East of Eden (1952) in Slovenia, demonstrated by its presence in virtually every area of public life and the sheer number of Slovene editions. The study also shows that in past decades, when Slovenia was in the grip of communist rule, even this book by Steinbeck, which is characterized by its non-fidelity to the rules imposed by social realism, in contrast to those that largely conformed to the communist regime’s ideology, could not escape an ideological burden.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
 - Editorial
 - Editorial
 - Articles
 - “And am I thus Rewarded?” The Rejected Hero and the Raped Heroine in Mary Pix’s Ibrahim
 - Deceptive Signification: Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, and Eighteenth-Century Hermit Discourse
 - Culture and the Working Class: Lee Hall’s Billy Elliot and The Pitmen Painters
 - Saroyan’s Travel Memories: Contesting National Identities for Armenian-Americans
 - The Relevance of Ideology in Reading Steinbeck’s East of Eden in Slovenia
 - Postcolonial Ekphrasis and Counter-Visions in Derek Walcott’s Tiepolo’s Hound – Contacts, Contests and Translations
 - Book Reviews
 - Die Stadt, der Highway und die Kamera: Fotografie und Urbanisierung in New York zwischen 1945 und 1965
 - Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict.
 - The Soul in British Romanticism: Negotiating Human Nature in Philosophy, Science, and Poetry
 - A Short Literary History of the United States
 - Books Received
 - Table of Contents Vol. 64 (2016)