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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Schiff, James A., 1958- John Updike revisited. New York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall International, c1998 (OCoLC)608908848 |
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| Named Person: | John Updike; John Updike; John Updike; John Updike |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James A Schiff |
| ISBN: | 0805746110 9780805746112 |
| OCLC Number: | 38249005 |
| Description: | xvi, 228 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| 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 American literature. |
| Series Title: | Twayne's United States authors series, TUSAS 704. |
| Other Titles: | John Updike revised |
| Responsibility: | James A. Schiff. |
Abstract:
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.
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