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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Olster, Stacey Michele, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Updike, John--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 193 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

ISBN:

1-139-81737-X

1-139-00096-9