UID:
edocfu_9959695969602883
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 193 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-81737-X
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1-139-00096-9
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to literature
Content:
John Updike is one of the most prolific and important American authors of the contemporary period, with an acclaimed body of work that spans half a century and is inspired by everything from American exceptionalism to American popular culture. This Companion joins together a distinguished international team of contributors to address both the major themes in Updike's writing as well as the sources of controversy that Updike's writing has often provoked. It traces the ways in which historical and cultural changes in the second half of the twentieth century have shaped not just Updike's reassessment of America's heritage, but his reassessment of the literary devices by which that legacy is best portrayed. With a chronology and bibliography of Updike's published writings, this is the only guide students and scholars of Updike will need to understand this extraordinary writer.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
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Updike, middles, and the spell of "subjective geography" / D. Quentin Miller -- "Nakedness" or realism in Updike's early short stories / Kristiaan Versluys -- Updike, religion, and the novel of moral debate / Marshall Boswell -- Updike, women, and mythologized sexuality / Kathleen Verduin -- Updike, race, and the postcolonial project / Jay Prosser -- Updike, ethnicity, and Jewish-American drag / Sanford Pinsker -- Updike, American history, and historical methodology / Edward Vargo -- Updike, Hawthorne, and American literary history / James Plath -- Updike, film, and American popular culture / James A. Schiff -- Updike, Rabbit, and the myth of American exceptionalism / Donald J. Greiner -- Conclusion: U(pdike) & p(ostmodernism) / John N. Duvall.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-60730-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-84532-7
Language:
English
