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Updike & politics : new considerations / edited by Matthew Shipe and Scott Dill.
Van Pelt Library PS3571.P4 Z87 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Politics, literature, & film
- Politics, literature, and film
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Updike, John--Criticism and interpretation.
- Updike, John.
- Politics in literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 268 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]
- Contents:
- Updike and politics: an introduction / Matthew Shipe and Scott Dill
- Part 1. The Presidency. Updike and the American presidency / James Schiff
- "We're none of us perfect": Watergate and adultery in John Updike's A month of Sundays and Memories of the Ford administration / Marshall Boswell
- Presidential politics as sexual politics: Memoires of the Ford administration / Judie Newman
- John Updike's poetics of hope / Jo Gill
- Updike on demagoguery: reconsidering Rabbit redux in the age of Trump / Ethan Fishman
- Part II. The American scene.
- "Love it or leave it": America in red, gray, and blue in Rabbit redux / Sylvie Mathé
- "Mail" chauvinism: John Updike's postal fetish and the unrealizable vision of American democracy / Yoav Fromer
- The failure of moderation in Buchanan dying and Memories of the Ford administration / Michial Farmer
- Inside Reagan's "placid, uncluttered head" : Roger's version and the rise of neoliberalism / Matthew Shipe
- The politics of vulnerability in The afterlife and other stories / Biljana Dojčinović
- John Updike's Terrorist and the poliltics of hygiene / Aleksandra Vukotić
- Part III. Updike abroad
- Updike's Middle East: a neoliberal approach to conflict resolution / Louis Gordon
- Updike "third-worlds it": staging The coup as political satire / Kirk Curnutt
- The Three Mile Island accident and "the man from Toyota": looking back on the cultural politics of the Cold War in Rabbit is rich and Rabbit at rest / Takashi Nakatani
- John Updike and the world: the politics of identity in Brazil / Pradipta Sengupta.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781498575607
- 1498575609
- OCLC:
- 1091364324
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