John Updike

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JOHN UPDIKE Judie Newman
In this lively study, Judie Newman offers a comprehensive and fresh discussion of the novels of John Updike, arguing a vigorous case for their importance on both formal and thematic grounds. Where preceding critics have tended to approach the novels in terms of religious and philosophical issues. Dr. Newsman calls attention to their responsiveness to social and historical developments in America in the modern period. There is a significant emphasis on the treatment of sexuality in the novels, and on the interaction betv^een narrative poetics and social content. Within this general frame, the author also highlights the variety of fictional forms and genres in which Updike operates.
Whether discussing realistic novels of Middle America, political fable, comedy of manners, mythological fantasy, literary parody, or social satire, Dr. Nevv^man succeeds in conveying the distinctive flavour of each novel, while clearly indicating its relation to the whole. In... Tovább

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JOHN UPDIKE Judie Newman
In this lively study, Judie Newman offers a comprehensive and fresh discussion of the novels of John Updike, arguing a vigorous case for their importance on both formal and thematic grounds. Where preceding critics have tended to approach the novels in terms of religious and philosophical issues. Dr. Newsman calls attention to their responsiveness to social and historical developments in America in the modern period. There is a significant emphasis on the treatment of sexuality in the novels, and on the interaction betv^een narrative poetics and social content. Within this general frame, the author also highlights the variety of fictional forms and genres in which Updike operates.
Whether discussing realistic novels of Middle America, political fable, comedy of manners, mythological fantasy, literary parody, or social satire, Dr. Nevv^man succeeds in conveying the distinctive flavour of each novel, while clearly indicating its relation to the whole. In addition, the author is a sensitive reader of Updike's prose, and close analysis of styHstic features generates new insights into the nature of Updike's achievement. Both the student and the general reader will leave the book with an enhanced understanding of a major American writer, and a greater awareness of his relationship to the development of the modern novel. Vissza