Stacey Olster (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to John Updike

Herausgeber: Olster, Stacey

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9780521845328
• ISBN-10: 0521845327
• Artikelnr.: 21458033

Autorenporträt

Stacey Olster is Professor of English at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Inhaltsangabe

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.