| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 228 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Gale virtual reference library |
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Twayne's United States authors series ; TUSAS 704 |
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Gale virtual reference library.
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Twayne's United States authors series ; TUSAS 704
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| Contents |
Introduction : America's bourgeois artist -- Pennsylvania novels : memorializing -- Rabbit angstrom : American icon, American epic -- The marriage novels -- Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter -- Master of the small canvas : a selection of short stories -- Recreating American history : Buchanan, the movies, and the Updikes -- The quest for identity on foreign shores -- Updike ignored : The contemporary independent critic -- Conclusion : Updike's place in Amerian literature |
| Summary |
In the first comprehensive study of Updike's oeuvre to appear in a decade, James Schiff takes on the enormous task of understanding this versatile and brilliant writer. In this up-to-date overview, Schiff provides commentary on recent individual works that have yet to receive critical treatment: Memories of the Ford Administration, Brazil, and In the Beauty of the Lilies. He treats individual works and aspects of Updike's oeuvre that have been partially or entirely ignored: his critical, nonfictional prose, and works like The Poorhouse Fair, Buchanan Dying, and The Witches of Eastwick. He offers complete readings of the two multivolume works: the Rabbit tetralogy and the Scarlet Letter trilogy. Finally, he attempts to see and understand the entire Updike, the versatile man of letters and author of nearly 50 volumes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-219) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Updike, John -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| SUBJECT |
Updike, John. fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst00031348 |
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Updike, John. swd |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
98010999 |
| ISBN |
0805718486 |
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9780805718485 |
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