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Format: 1 online resource (vi, 228 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

Series Statement: Mind and American literature

Content: This book looks past the frequently discussed autobiographical nature of John Updike's fiction to consider the role in Updike's work of the most powerful and peculiar human faculty: the imagination. Michial Farmer argues that, while the imagination is for Updike a means of human survival and a necessary component of human flourishing, it also has a destructive, darker side, in which it shades intosomething like philosophical idealism. Here the mind constructs the world around it and then, unhelpfully, imposes this created world between itself and the "real world." In other words, Updike is not himself an idealist but sees idealism as a persistent temptation for the artistic imagination. Farmer builds his argument on the metaphysics of Jean-Paul Sartre, an existentialist thinker who has been largely neglected in discussions of Updike's aesthetics. The book demonstrates the degree to which Updike was an original and powerful thinker and not the callow sensationalist that he is sometimesaccused of being.〈BR〉〈BR〉 Michial Farmer is Assistant Professor of English at Crown College, Saint Bonifacius, Minnesota.〈BR〉〈BR〉

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 May 2017). , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: Hawthorne, Updike, and the Immoral Imagination -- , 1: John Updike and the Existentialist Imagination -- , Part I. The "Mythic Immensity" of the Parental Imagination -- , 2: "Flight," "His Mother Inside Him," and "Ace in the Hole" -- , 3: The Centaur -- , 4: Of the Farm, "A Sandstone Farmhouse," and "The Cats" -- , Part II. Collective Hallucination in the Adulterous Society -- , 5: "Man and Daughter in the Cold," "Giving Blood," "The Taste of Metal," and "Avec la Bébé-Sitter" -- , 6: Marry Me -- , 7: Couples and "The Hillies" -- , Part III. Imaginative Lust in the Scarlet Letter Trilogy -- , 8: "The Football Factory," "Toward Evening," "Incest," "Still Life," "Lifeguard," "Bech Swings?" and "Three Illuminations in the Life of an American Author" -- , 9: A Month of Sundays -- , 10: Roger's Version -- , 11: S. -- , Part IV. Female Power and the Female Imagination -- , 12: "Marching through Boston," "The Stare," "Report of Health," "Living with a Wife," and "Slippage" -- , 13: The Witches of Eastwick -- , Part V. The Remembering Imagination -- , 14: "In Football Season," "First Wives and Trolley Cars," "The Day of the Dying Rabbit," "Leaving Church Early," and "The Egg Race" -- , 15: Memories of the Ford Administration -- , 16: "The Dogwood Tree," "A Soft Spring Night in Shillington," and "On Being a Self Forever" -- , Conclusion: Updike, Realism, and Postmodernism -- , Bibliography -- , Index -- , Credits

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-78204-935-5

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-57113-942-7

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781782049357

URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)

URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781782049357/type/BOOK

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Format: 393 Seiten

ISBN: 9789004462526 , 900446252X

Series Statement: Brill's Tibetan studies library vol.50

Content: "The Atlas shows for the first time the contemporary geography of the entire Tibetan Plateau, an area where major powers (China, India and Pakistan) meet in the highest landscape on earth, originally inhabited by the unique, ancient Buddhis civilization of Tibet. Using extensive satellite imagery, the author has accurately positioned over two thousand religious locations, more than a third of which appear not to have not been previously recorded. Nearly two thousand settlements have also been accurately located and all locations are named in both Tibetan and Chinese where possible. This ancient landscape is shown in contrast to the massive physical infrastructure which has been recently imposed on it as an attempt to "Open up the West" and carry forward the Chinese "Belt and Road Initiative". With 120 maps in full colour"--

Note: Includes index

Additional Edition: ISBN 9789004498686

Additional Edition: ISBN 9789004498686

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Farmer, Michael Atlas of the tibetan plateau Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Farmer, Michael An atlas of the Tibetan Plateau Leiden : Brill, 2022 ISBN 9789004498686

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

Keywords: Hochland von Tibet ; Atlas ; Atlas