Cambridge Companion to John Updike

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung John Updike is one of the most prolific and important American authors working today! with an acclaimed body of work spanning half a century. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: 'A sort of helplessly 50's guy' Stacey Olster; Part I. Early Influences and Recurrent Concerns: 1. Updike, middles, and the spell of 'subjective geography' D. Quentin Miller; 2. 'Nakedness' or realism in Updike's early short stories Kristiaan Versluys; 3. Updike, religion, and the novel of moral debate Marshall Boswell; Part II. Controversy and Difference: 4. Updike, women, and mythologized sexuality Kathleen Verduin; 5. Updike, race, and the postcolonial project Jay Prosser; 6. Updike, ethnicity, and Jewish-American drag Sanford Pinsker; Part III. American Chronicles: 7. Updike, American history, and historical methodology Edward Vargo; 8. Updike, Hawthorne, and American literary history James Plath; 9. Updike, film, and American popular culture James A. Schiff; 10. John Updike, Rabbit Angstrom, and the myth of American exceptionalism Donald J. Greiner; Conclusion: U(pdike) & P(ostmodernism) John N. Duvall; Select bibliography.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Stacey Olster, Stacey (State University of New York Olster, Stacey Michele Olster
• Mitarbeit: Stacey Olster (Herausgeber), Stacey (State University of New York Olster (Herausgeber), Olster Stacey (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 06.04.2006
• EAN: 9780521845328
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84532-8
• Seiten: 214
• Serien: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft