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John Updike / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Van Pelt Library PS3571.P4 Z73 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Modern critical views
- Modern critical views.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Updike, John--Criticism and interpretation.
- Updike, John.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 172 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1987.
- Summary:
- -- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers
- Contents:
- The private vice of John Updike / John W. Aldridge
- John Updike / Richard H. Rupp
- Post-pill paradise lost / David Lodge
- A compromised environment / Tony Tanner
- Updike's American comedies / Joyce Carol Oates
- John Updike's love of "Dull bovine beauty" / Mary Allen
- The novel as lyric energy / James M. Mellard
- John Updike / Jane Barnes
- Bech, passing / Cynthia Ozick
- The coup / Donald James Greiner.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 159-161.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0877547173
- OCLC:
- 15015587
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