Title:
John Updike / editor, Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr.
Author:
Rodgers, Bernard F., 1947-
Publication Information:
Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, ©2012.
Call Number:
PS3571 .P4 Z735 2012
Abstract:
This volume is designed to add a wide-ranging survey of both Updike's work and the critical response to it. Divided into new essays on his Career, Life, and Influences and the Critical Contexts of his writing, reprints of previously published Critical Readings that address his major themes, characters, motifs, and concerns, and Resources for further study, it offers its readers insights into the breadth of his achievement from his earliest stories to the books he completed in the last months of his life. -- Publisher's website.
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ISBN:
9781587658327
9781587658211
Series:
Critical insights
Critical insights.
Physical Description:
x, 373 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
On John Updike / Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr -- Biography of John Updike / Debra Shostak -- The Paris review perspective / Robert Roper for The Paris review -- Gentile on my mind : Updike, Bech, and the limits of ethnic representation / Derek Parker Royal -- Shaping graces : John Updike, middleness, and the American experience / James Plath -- Updike and Howells / James A. Schiff -- The critical reception of John Updike / Jack De Bellis -- The Pennsylvania thing : Pigeon feathers/The centaur / William H. Pritchard -- Updike's American comedies / Joyce Carol Oates -- Introducing the Maples / Alice and Kenneth Hamilton -- The Rabbit tetralogy : from solitude to society to solitude again / Matthew Wilson -- The trouble with Harry : Rabbit at rest / Hermione Lee -- Granting the individual soul its due / Peter J. Bailey -- Inside America / Marshall Boswell -- Updike's Scarlet letter trilogy : recasting an American myth / James A. Schiff -- Going south : Bech at bay and before / Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr -- God goes to the movies : In the beauty of the lilies / A.O. Scott -- In desire's grip : gender, politics, and intertextual games in Updike's Gertrude and Claudius / Laura Elena Savu -- The modesty of John Updike / David Heddendorf -- A fan's notes : on Updike's long game / Adam Gopnik -- Resources -- Chronology of John Updike's life -- Works by John Updike -- Bibliography.
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