UID:
almafu_9960119183502883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 220 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78744-249-7
Series Statement:
European studies in North American literature and culture
Content:
A collection of essays that perceive Updike's America through the eyes of Western and Eastern European readers and scholars, contributing to Updike scholarship while demonstrating his resonance across the Atlantic.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Aug 2018).
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Abbreviations --
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Introduction: Updike as Europeans See Him --
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Part I Coming of Age, Aging in Time --
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1: Under His Skin: Reconstructing the Adolescent Longings of a Would-Be Terrorist --
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2: “At the other end of life’s rainbow”: Rabbit’s Journey from Adolescence to Old Age and Other Transcendental Trajectories --
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3: Intimations of Mortality: Death’s Shadow in Updike’s Oeuvre --
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Part II Love, American Style --
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4: Back to the Garden: American Longing in John Updike’s Couples --
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5: Women in John Updike’s Villages: Back to the Madonna and Whore --
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6: The Art of Love: Pierre Bourdieu, Cultural Production, and Seek My Face --
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Part III Amazing Grace, American Faith --
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7: Psalmist of the Everyday: Late Updike, Aesthetics, and the Language of Praise --
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8: Guilt, Shame, and Hope in Updike’s Short Fiction: “The Music School,” “Guilt-Gems,” and “Deaths of Distant Friends” --
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9: Signs of Omission? Socialist Erasure of Religion in John Updike’s Work --
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Part IV Old World Myths, New World News --
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10: “Hey, Come On, We’re All Americans Here”: The Representation of Muslim-American Identity in John Updike’s Terrorist --
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11: Intertextual Updike: Gertrude and Claudius --
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12: Rabbit and the News --
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Sources for Further Study --
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Contributors --
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Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-57113-972-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781787442498
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781787442498/type/BOOK
