John Updike

A Critical Biography

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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One of the world's greatest writers, John Updike chronicled America for more than five decades. This book examines the essence of Updike's writing, propelling our understanding of his award-winning fiction, prose, and poetry.Widely considered "America's Man of Letters," John Updike is a prolific novelist and critic with an unprecedented range of work across more than 50 years. No author has ever written from the variety of vantages or spanned topics like Updike did. Despite being widely recognized as one of the nation's literary greats, scholars have largely ignored Updike's vast catalog of work outside the Rabbit tetralogy. This work provides the first detailed examination of Updike's body of criticism, poetry, and journalism, and shows how that work played a central role in transforming his novels. The book disputes the common misperception of Updike as merely a chronicler of suburban, middle-class America by focusing on his novels and stories that explore the wider world, from the groundbreaking The Coup (1978) to Terrorist (2006). Popular culture scholar Bob Batchelor asks readers to reassess Updike's career by tracing his transformation over half a century of writing.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-04-23
Mått156 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt539 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780313384035

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Bob Batchelor, PhD, is assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kent State University and academic coordinator of its online master's program in public relations. Batchelor is the author or editor of 21 books, including 3 volumes in Greenwood's "Popular Culture through History" series: The 1900s, The 1980s, and The 2000s. In addition, he edited Greenwood's four-volume American Pop: Popular Culture Decade by Decade; Praeger's three-volume Cult Pop Culture: How the Fringe Became Mainstream; and Praeger's three-volume American History through American Sports.

PrefaceAcknowledgments1 John Updike: An American Writer and His Times2 Why Write: Updike as Craftsman, Professional, and Celebrity3 Pennsylvania as American Ideal4 Updike's Poetry5 Rabbit, Run and American Culture6 Chronicler of American Sexuality7 Rabbit Lives and Dies8 Between Writer and Reader: Updike as Critic9 Master Storyteller10 Radical Departures: Updike as Experimental Novelist11 Updike's Audience12 Racing toward the Apocalypse: Updike's New America13 Evolution of a Literary LionConclusionBibliographyIndex