The Cambridge companion to John Updike / edited by Stacey Olster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Olster, Stacey Michele.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Updike, John--Criticism and interpretation.

Updike, John.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xv, 193 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Summary:

John Updike is one of the most prolific and important American authors working today, with an acclaimed body of work that spans half a century. This Companion charts how 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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-185) and index.

ISBN:

0521845327

0521607302

OCLC:

62532876

Publisher Number:

9780521845328 (hbk.)

9780521607308 (pbk.)