John Updike / editor, Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr., Bard College at Simon's Rock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodgers, Bernard F., 1947- author.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical insights John Updike

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Updike, John--Criticism and interpretation.

Updike, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 373 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

John Updike

Place of Publication:

Pasadena, California : Salem Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

John Updike's extensive body of work is the focus of this volume. New essays include a discussion of the social and historical context of Updike's work and a consideration of Updike's recurrent Jewish-American character. The blocked writer Henry Bech is discussed as a vehicle for his creator to treat the relationship between an author and his work. Several republished essays discuss Updike's Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom novels, his "Scarlet Letter Trilogy" and the novels featuring Harry Bech.

Contents:

Cover

Index

Abeln, Paul, 69

Adler, Renata, 128, 134

Adultery, 59, 122, 164, 258-259, 265, 300, 327

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 196

Aging, 86, 292

Alienation, 174, 226, 253, 301, 312

Anderson, Sherwood, 110

Angstrom, Harry "Rabbit" (Rabbit tetralogy), 21, 89, 153, 198-203, 207-216, 218-220, 223-229, 233, 253

comparison with Nathan Zuckerman (Roth), 229

historical consciousness, 196, 206, 218-219

and religion, 235, 238, 240

as symbol of America, 93, 217, 225, 251-253

Angstrom, Janice (Rabbit tetralogy), 93

Angstrom, Nelson (Rabbit tetralogy), 209, 236

critical responses, 92

Art and artists, 4, 22, 61, 99, 131, 139, 142, 145, 152, 157, 322

"Astronomer, The" (Updike), 118

Auerbach, Nina, 271

Autobiographical nature of Updike's work, 14, 20, 87, 113, 120, 148, 162

Automobiles and driving, 120, 122-123, 126, 130, 155, 185, 216, 232, 272

Bailey, Peter J., 365

Baker, Nicholson, 30, 320, 334

Balliett, Whitney, 76

Barth, Karl, 57, 118, 266

Bech story collections (Updike), 34, 38, 40-41, 277, 279

critical responses, 35-37, 39

Bell, Michael Davitt, 71, 265

Bellow, Saul, 117

Bernhard, Martha. See Updike, Martha Bernhard

Berthoff, Warner, 68

"Blessed Man of Boston, My Grandmother's Thimble, and Fanning Island, The" (Updike), 119-121

Blithedale Romance, The (Hawthorne), 270

Bloom, Harold, 76

Boswell, Marshall, 246, 365

Brazil (Updike), 60

critical responses, 97

Brodhead, Richard H., 260

Caldwell, George (The Centaur), 129, 165

and Updike's father, 52, 321

Caldwell, Peter (The Centaur), 95, 129, 131, 135-136, 139, 322

Cars. See Automobiles and driving

Centaur, The (Updike), 52, 128-142, 148- 150, 152, 157, 164, 259, 321-322

autobiographical elements, 148

critical responses, 94, 129

index, 129.

mythological elements, 95, 128, 137

rhetorical modes, 130

Character names, 97, 108, 165, 168, 223, 267-268, 282, 295

Clausen, Jan, 254

Complete Henry Bech, The (Updike). See Bech story collections

individual collection titles

Coup, The (Updike), 77, 100

Couples (Updike), 21, 58, 146, 153, 164, 284, 328

critical responses, 87

sexual explicitness, 88, 327

Death and dying, 28, 81, 86, 99, 116, 121, 132, 243, 302, 305, 308, 337, 339

fear of, 108, 114, 329

as release, 158

De Bellis, Jack, 59, 364

"Dogwood Tree, The" (Updike), 4, 51, 74, 111, 241

Domestic life, 21, 23, 54, 74, 91, 206, 249

Donoghue, Denis, 260

Driving. See Automobiles and driving

Early Stories, The (Updike), 5

arrangement of stories, 8

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 197, 219, 235, 240

Endpoint, and Other Poems (Updike), 14, 24

Entrapment, 92, 146, 153, 192, 198-199, 224, 292, 304, 308

"Eros Rampant" (Updike), 185, 191-192

Escape, 109, 113, 116, 123, 157, 196, 198, 202, 206, 214, 236, 327

Faith. See Religion and faith

Father-son relationships, 92, 94, 122, 125-126, 137, 157, 209, 321

Female characters, 22, 91-93, 96-97, 99, 200, 271, 275, 295, 300, 307, 311, 336

deaths, 221

Feminist criticism, 92-93, 96, 271, 275, 294

"Flight" (Updike), 110, 112, 157

autobiographical elements, 113

narrator, 135

Freedom, 151, 157, 173, 175, 187, 199-200, 206, 220, 223, 235, 309, 338

Garland, Hamlin, 68

Gertrude and Claudius (Updike), 61, 100, 294-316

"Giving Blood" (Updike), 163, 176-180

Gopnik, Adam, 365

Great Depression, influence on Updike, 50

Greenblatt, Stephen, 297, 304-305

Hamilton, Alice, 364

Hamilton, Kenneth, 364

Hamlet (Shakespeare), 294-296, 301

Hanema, Piet (Couples), 146, 150, 153

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 62, 65, 97, 259-260, 262

Heddendorf, David, 365.

Heilbrun, Carolyn G., 298, 311

Historical events in Updike's works, 21, 60-61, 90, 197, 201, 211, 252, 287

"Home" (short story

Updike), 123, 166

"Home" (unpublished novel

Updike), 107, 133

Horvath, Brooke, 214

Howells, William Dean, 66-74, 78

comparison with Updike, 66, 75-76, 79, 81

literary reputation, 67, 69

Hoyer, John (grandfather), 52, 85

Huckleberry Finn. See Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Humor, 39, 91, 95, 100, 134, 178, 265, 335

In the Beauty of the Lilies (Updike), 60, 244, 286-293, 337

Irigaray, Luce, 301, 316

James, Henry, 67

Joyce, James, 65, 148, 160

Kingship, 176, 182, 191

Lawrence, D. H., 261-262

Lee, Hermione, 253, 364

Lewis, Sinclair, 71

"Lifeguard" (Updike), 118

Lodge, David, 39

Lyotard, Jean-François, 300, 303, 315

Magical realism, 60, 77, 95, 98, 100, 133

"Man Who Became a Soprano, The" (Updike), 26

Maple, Richard and Joan (Maples stories), 163, 165, 167, 278

names, 165-166

Maples stories (Updike), 163, 165-192, 237, 278. See also individual story titles

"Marching Through Boston" (Updike), 184-185

Marriage, 22, 162-164, 173, 198, 200, 206, 284, 290, 301, 327

Maples stories, 163

Materialism, 97, 231, 272

Matthews, John T., 265

Mencken, H. L., 71

Metafiction, 35, 38, 45, 99

Miller, D. Quentin, 56

Month of Sundays, A (Updike), 62, 74, 77, 97, 258, 263-264. See also Scarlet Letter trilogy

Mother-son relationships, 110, 113, 157, 302

Museums and Women, and Other Stories (Updike), 146, 152

Music School, The (Updike), 163-164, 176

My Father's Tears, and Other Stories (Updike), 14

Myth, 77, 94, 97, 99, 128, 137, 169, 215, 259, 295

Names. See Character names

Narrative voice, 33-34, 45-46, 97, 111-112, 122, 124, 230, 322

Nettels, Elsa, 67

New Yorker, The, 5, 9, 18, 27, 51.

Oates, Joyce Carol, 140, 143, 364

O'Connell, Mary, 255

O'Connor, Flannery, 145

Of the Farm (Updike), 53, 80, 157, 160

Olinger Stories (Updike), 7, 107, 158

Ozick, Cynthia, 36-37

"Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, a Dying Cat, a Traded Car" (Updike), 119-126

Updike on, 128

Pennington, Mary. See Updike, Mary Pennington

"Pigeon Feathers" (Updike), 114, 117, 135

early version, 247

and religion, 114

Pigeon Feathers, and Other Stories (Updike), 107, 109

and religion, 118

Pinsker, Sanford, 33, 37, 47

Plath, James, 363

Poetry, 14, 19, 143, 278, 316, 340

Poirier, Richard, 196

Poorhouse Fair, The (Updike), 50, 52, 175, 259

critical responses, 85

Powers, Peter Kerry, 79

Pritchard, William H., 75, 364

Punning. See Wordplay

Rabbit Angstrom (Updike). See Rabbit tetralogy

Rabbit at Rest (Updike), 212, 215, 219, 223-227, 238, 242

critical responses, 91. See also Rabbit tetralogy

Rabbit Redux (Updike), 59, 89, 200, 224

critical responses, 90. See also Rabbit tetralogy

Rabbit, Run (Updike), 56, 153, 197, 225

critical responses, 254

as satire, 207

Racism, 91, 93, 224

Realist literature, 10, 23, 66-68, 71, 73, 75, 77-78, 81, 136, 335

Religion and faith, 27, 57, 60, 86, 99, 114, 118, 135, 147, 151-153, 228, 235, 238, 240, 267, 288, 337

Richards, I. A., 143

Ristoff, Dilvo I., 218, 220

Rodgers, Bernard F., Jr., 39, 361

Roger's Version (Updike), 62, 97, 229, 233, 258, 267-269

and religion, 242. See also Scarlet Letter trilogy

Roper, Robert, 363

Roth, Philip, 334

Royal, Derek Parker, 363

S. (Updike), 34, 62, 258, 270-273

critical responses, 96-97. See also Scarlet Letter trilogy

Salinger, J. D., influence on Updike, 9, 336

Same Door, The (Updike), 117, 163, 236

Savu, Laura Elena, 365.

Scarlet Letter trilogy (Updike), 62, 97, 258-273, 295. See also individual novel titles

Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne), 62, 97, 264, 269, 271, 295

Updike on, 261-262

Schiff, James A., 295, 317-318, 363

Schopen, Bernard A., 299

Scott, A. O., 365

Seek My Face (Updike), critical responses, 99

Self-Consciousness (Updike), 19, 237, 249, 287

"Sense of Shelter, A" (Updike), 111

Sexual revolution, 21, 57, 284

Sexuality, 27, 36, 79, 91, 94, 128, 169, 198, 208-209, 215, 263, 305, 307, 313, 317

explicitness in Updike works, 57, 59, 75, 88, 164, 202, 287, 326, 336

Shillington, Pennsylvania, 8, 14, 18, 20, 23, 51, 53, 288, 321

Shostak, Debra, 363

"Snowing in Greenwich Village" (Updike), 163, 165, 167-174, 186

Tannenhaus, Sam, 12

Tanner, Tony, 259, 265

"Taste of Metal, The" (Updike), 185-188, 190

Taylor, Larry E., 116

Terrorist (Updike), 61, 100, 335

Themes and motifs

adultery, 59, 122, 164, 258-259, 265, 300, 327

aging, 86, 292

alienation, 174, 226, 253, 301, 312

art and artists, 22, 61, 99, 131, 139, 142, 145, 152, 157, 322

automobiles and driving, 120, 122-123, 126, 130, 155, 185, 216, 232, 272

death and dying, 16, 28, 52, 81, 86, 89, 94, 99, 108, 114, 116, 121, 128, 132, 158, 197, 199, 202, 206, 208, 212, 227, 243, 253, 260, 302, 305, 308, 329, 337, 339

domestic life, 21, 23, 54, 74, 91, 206, 249

entrapment, 92, 146, 153, 192, 198-199, 224, 292, 304, 308

escape, 109, 113, 116, 123, 157, 196, 198, 202, 206, 214, 236, 327

freedom, 151, 157, 173, 175, 187, 199-200, 206, 220, 223, 235, 309, 338

kingship, 176, 182, 191

marriage, 22, 162-164, 173, 198, 200, 206, 284, 290, 301, 327

materialism, 97, 231, 272

myth, 77, 94, 97, 99, 128, 137, 169, 215, 259, 295

racism, 91, 224.

religion and faith, 27, 57, 60, 86, 99, 114, 118, 135, 147, 151-153, 228, 235, 238, 240, 267, 288, 337.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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9786613665829

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1280688882

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1587658852

OCLC:

763237873