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In John Updike's Room

Author : Christopher Wiseman
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 : 9780889842731
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book In John Updike's Room written by Christopher Wiseman and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "In John Updike's Room," one of Canada's major poets has gathered the best from his first eight books, and added a generous and richly varied selection of new and previously unpublished work. Christopher Wiseman demonstrates here, with great authority, a strong and impressive humanity, deep feeling, a total command of both free and formal verse, an ability to celebrate the seemingly ordinary and turn it into something unforgettable, even luminous, and a startlingly wide range of subject, tone and approach. The poems collected here from some forty years of writing move around Europe, Britain, Canada and the United States, and range from the comic to the satirical to the reflective to the elegiac, but never lose what the Pulitzer prize-winning poet Donald Justice has called Wiseman's strong, clear, truth-telling voice'. Don Coles admires the poems for being subtle and tender', and throughout these warm, human and accessible works, the over-riding quality is one of honest, recognizable, but distinctive emotion, as the poems, brilliantly crafted and shaped, delight and deepen our sense of personal possibility, of the joy, laughter, sorrow and grief which will send the reader back over and over again to its warm and wise pages.

Collected Poems of John Updike, 1953-1993

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307961974
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems of John Updike, 1953-1993 written by John Updike and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The idea of verse, of poetry, has always, during forty years spent working primarily in prose, stood at my elbow, as a standing invitation to the highest kind of verbal exercise—the most satisfying, the most archaic, the most elusive of critical control. In hotel rooms and airplanes, on beaches and Sundays, at junctures of personal happiness or its opposite, poetry has comforted me with its hope of permanence, its packaging of flux.” Thus John Updike writes in introducing his Collected Poems. The earliest poems here date from 1953, when Updike was twenty-one, and the last were written after he turned sixty. Almost all of those published in his five previous collections are included, with some revisions. Arranged in chronological order, the poems constitute, as he says, “the thread backside of my life’s fading tapestry.” An ample set of notes at the back of the book discusses some of the hidden threads, and expatiates upon a number of fine points. Nature—tenderly intricate, ruthlessly impervious—is a constant and ambiguous presence in these poems, along with the social observation one would expect in a novelist. No occasion is too modest or too daily to excite metaphysical wonder, or to provoke a lyrical ingenuity of language. Yet even the wittiest of the poems are rooted to the ground of experience and fact. “Seven Odes to Seven Natural Processes” attempt to explicate the physical world with a directness seldom attempted in poetry. Several longer poems—“Leaving Church Early,” “Midpoint”—use autobiography to proclaim the basic strangeness of existence.

John Updike Remembered

Author : Jack A. De Bellis
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476667063
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book John Updike Remembered written by Jack A. De Bellis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-three individuals present a prismatic view of the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and his work through anecdote and insight. Interviews and essays from family, friends and associates reveal sides of the novelist perhaps unfamiliar to the public--the high school prankster, the golfer, the creator of bedtime stories, the charming ironist, the faithful correspondent with scholars, the devoted friend and the dedicated practitioner of his craft. The contributors include his first wife, Mary Pennington, and three of their children; high school and college friends; authors John Barth, Joyce Carol Oates and Nicholson Baker; journalists Terri Gross and Ann Goldstein; and scholars Jay Parini, William Pritchard, James Plath, and Adam Begley, Updike's biographer.

Imagination and Idealism in John Updike's Fiction

Author : Michial Farmer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571139427
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Imagination and Idealism in John Updike's Fiction written by Michial Farmer and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontcover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Hawthorne, Updike, and the Immoral Imagination -- 1: John Updike and the Existentialist Imagination -- Part I. The "Mythic Immensity" of the Parental Imagination -- 2: "Flight," "His Mother Inside Him," and "Ace in the Hole"--3: The Centaur -- 4: Of the Farm, "A Sandstone Farmhouse," and "The Cats"--Part II. Collective Hallucination in the Adulterous Society -- 5: "Man and Daughter in the Cold," "Giving Blood," "The Taste of Metal," and "Avec la Bébé-Sitter" -- 6: Marry Me -- 7: Couples and "The Hillies" -- Part III. Imaginative Lust in the Scarlet Letter Trilogy -- 8: "The Football Factory," "Toward Evening," "Incest," "Still Life," "Lifeguard," "Bech Swings?" and "Three Illuminations in the Life of an American Author" -- 9: A Month of Sundays -- 10: Roger's Version -- 11: S. -- Part IV. Female Power and the Female Imagination -- 12: "Marching through Boston," "The Stare," "Report of Health," "Living with a Wife," and "Slippage" -- 13: The Witches of Eastwick -- Part V. The Remembering Imagination -- 14: "In Football Season," "First Wives and Trolley Cars," "The Day of the Dying Rabbit," "Leaving Church Early," and "The Egg Race" -- 15: Memories of the Ford Administration -- 16: "The Dogwood Tree," "A Soft Spring Night in Shillington," and "On Being a Self Forever" -- Conclusion: Updike, Realism, and Postmodernism -- Bibliography -- Index -- Credits

European Perspectives on John Updike

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571139729
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book European Perspectives on John Updike written by Laurence W. Mazzeno and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2018 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his first book publication in 1958, the American writer John Updike attracted an international readership. His books have been translated into twenty-three languages, and he has always had a strong following in the United Kingdom and in Europe. Although Updike died in 2009, interest in his work remains strong among European scholars. No recent volume, however, collects diverse European views on Updike's oeuvre. The current book fills that void, presenting essays that perceive Updike's renditions of America through the eyes of scholar/readers from both Western and Eastern Europe--back cover.

Myth and Gospel in the Fiction of John Updike

Author : John McTavish
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0718895371
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Myth and Gospel in the Fiction of John Updike written by John McTavish and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big on style, slight on substance: that has been a common charge over the years by critics of John Updike. In fact, however, John Updike is one of the most serious writers of modern times. Myth, as this book shows, unlocks his fictional universe and repeatedly breaks open the powerful themes in his literary parables of the gospel. Myth and Gospel in the Fiction of John Updike also includes a personal tribute to John Updike by his son David, two essays by pioneer Updike scholars Alice and Kenneth Hamilton, and an anecdotal chapter in which readers share Updike discoveries and recommendations. All in all, weight is added to the complaint that the master of myth and gospel was shortchanged by the Nobel committee.

Conversations with John Updike

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 0878057005
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with John Updike written by John Updike and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1994 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects thirty-two interviews with the writer between 1959 and 1993.

John Updike's Human Comedy

Author : Brian Keener
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820470900
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book John Updike's Human Comedy written by Brian Keener and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comedy in John Updike's most important works - The Centaur; Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit at Rest; and Rabbit Remembered - defines a comic world and its morality. Although critics have failed to recognize the extent and the importance of Updike's comedy, his serious fiction does contain a good deal of farce, burlesque, and irony that, far from being peripheral or mere comic relief, depicts the absurd and contradictory nature of life. Within such a world, set in the everyday Pennsylvania of the second half of the twentieth century, human beings mature, or gain Kierkegaard's ethical sphere, by fulfilling their societal and generational responsibilities. George Caldwell of The Centaur is Updike's paragon, while Rabbit Angstrom embodies the comic hero who, through trial and error, finally matures. Overall, through an analysis of Updike's comedy, this book reveals a dimension of his fiction that is essential to understanding his work.

Selected Poems of John Updike

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1101875305
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems of John Updike written by John Updike and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback: five decades of witty, intimate, and moving poems--written between 1953 and 2008--with the cumulative force of an autobiography in verse, by this master of American letters. Though John Updike is widely known as one of America's greatest writers of prose, both his first book and his last were poetry collections, and in the fifty years between he published six other volumes of verse. Here, Christopher Carduff has selected the best of his lifework in poetry: 129 of his most significant and accomplished poems, from precocious undergraduate efforts to frequently anthologized midcareer classics to dozens of later works in a form that Updike made his own, the blank-verse sonnet. Art, science, popular culture, foreign travel, erotic love, and the beauty of the man-made and God-given worlds--these recurring topics provided Updike ever-surprising occasions for wonder and matchless verbal invention. His Selected Poems is, as Brad Leithauser writes in his introduction, a celebration of American life in the second half of the twentieth century: "No other writer of his time captured so much of this passing pageant. That he did so with brio and delight and nimbleness is another reason to celebrate our noble celebrant."

The Cambridge Companion to John Updike

Author : Stacey Olster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113982743X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to John Updike written by Stacey Olster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Updike is one of the most prolific and important American authors of the contemporary period, with an acclaimed body of work that spans half a century and is inspired by everything from American exceptionalism to American popular culture. This Companion joins together a distinguished international team of contributors to address both the major themes in Updike's writing as well as the sources of controversy that Updike's writing has often provoked. It traces the ways in which 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.

John Updike Revisited

Author : James A. Schiff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book John Updike Revisited written by James A. Schiff and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of John Updike.

Updike in Cincinnati

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821417487
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Updike in Cincinnati written by John Updike and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I had a great time in Cincinnati; but why is there no shrine to Doris Day?" --John Updike In the wake of race riots and an airline strike, John Updike came to the University of Cincinnati in April 2001 as an honored guest. Over two spring days, he engaged and charmed his audiences, reading from his fiction, fielding questions, sitting for an interview, participating in a panel discussion, and touring Cincinnati. Successful writers typically spend a portion of their non-writing lives traveling the country to give readings and lectures. While a significant experience for author and audience alike, this public spectacle, once covered in detailed newspaper accounts, now is barely noticed by the media. Updike in Cincinnati--composed of a wealth of materials, including session transcripts, short fiction read and discussed by the author, photographs, and anecdotal observations about Updike's behavior in the Queen City--is unique in comprehensively documenting a literary visit by a major American author. Updike's verbal eloquence, intelligence, improvisational skills, and gift for comedy are displayed in full vigor. With natural grace, the author discusses a range of topics, including his own work, his mother and his oldest son as writers, Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson, the Nobel Prize, his appearance on The Simpsons, the divine right of kings and Ottoman sultans, and Hamlet. Updike in Cincinnati portrays one of America's literary giants as an adept and talented public performer.

John Updike's Early Years

Author : Jack De Bellis
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611461316
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book John Updike's Early Years written by Jack De Bellis and published by Lehigh University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Updike’s Early Years reveals for the first time the young Updike’s developing personality and precocious creativity. Relying upon interviews with classmates and friends, and offering extensive connections to his mature work, De Bellis shows how his school years incubated his mature work.

The Elements of John Updike

Author : Alice Hamilton
Publisher : [Grand Rapids, Mich.] : Eerdmans
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Elements of John Updike written by Alice Hamilton and published by [Grand Rapids, Mich.] : Eerdmans. This book was released on 1970 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

John Updike's Pennsylvania Interviews

Author : James Plath
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611461065
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book John Updike's Pennsylvania Interviews written by James Plath and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updike remains both a critical and popular success; however, because Updike asked that his personal letters not be published the only way that Updike scholars and fans can read more of the author’s candid and insightful remarks is to revisit some of the many interviews he granted—most of which are difficult to locate or obtain. Updike wrote about his home town of Reading in Berks County, Pennsylvania for much of his adult life, setting most of his early fiction and all of his award-winning novels in his home state. In John Updike’s Pennsylvania Interviews, James Plath has compiled the first collection of interviews that illustrates and helps to explain the bond between one of America’s greatest literary talents and his beloved Pennsylvania. Included in this volume are interviews and articles by Mark Abrams, Leonard W. Boasberg, Carl W. Brown, Jr., David Cheshire, Marty Crisp, Sean Diviny, John Mark Eberhart, William Ecenbarger, Elizabeth Greenwood, Ruth Heimbuecher, Dorothy Lehman Hoerr, Jim Homan, Tom Knapp, Karen L. Miller, Steve Neal, Richard E. Nicholls, Sanford Pinsker, James Plath, Bruce Posten, Carole Reber, Pamela Rohland, Carlin Romano, Daniel Rubin, Stephan Salisbury, Charles R. Shaw, Ellen Sulkis, Heather Thomas, Stanley J. Watkins, Michael L. Wentzel, and Robert F. Zissa.

Understanding John Updike

Author : Frederic Svoboda
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611178630
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Understanding John Updike written by Frederic Svoboda and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close look at the extraordinary literary achievements of a popular and prolific American author The winner of every major American literary prize, John Updike (1932-2009) was one of the most popular and prolific novelists of his time and a major cultural figure who traced the high point and fall of midcentury American self-confidence and energy. A superb stylist with sixty books to his credit, he brilliantly rendered the physical surfaces of the nation's life even as he revealed the intense longings beneath those surfaces. In Understanding John Updike, Frederic Svoboda elucidates the author's deep insights into the second half of the twentieth century as seen through the lives of ordinary men and women. He offers extended close readings of Updike's most significant works of fiction, templates through which his entire oeuvre may be understood. A small-town Pennsylvanian whose prodigious talent took him to Harvard, a staff position at the New Yorker, and ultimately a life in suburban Massachusetts, where the pace of his literary output never slowed, Updike was very much in the American cultural tradition. His series of Rabbit Angstrom novels strongly echo Sinclair Lewis's earlier explorations of middle America, while The Witches of Eastwick and related novels are variations on Nathaniel Hawthorne's nineteenth-century classic The Scarlet Letter. His number-one best seller Couples examines what Time magazine called "the adulterous society" in the last year of the Kennedy administration, following the nation's fall from idealism into self-centeredness. Understanding John Updike will give both new readers and those already familiar with the author a firm grasp of his literary achievement. This outline of Updike's professional career highlights his importance in the life of the nation—not only as a novelist but also as a gifted essayist, reviewer, cultural critic, and poet.

John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy

Author : Marshall Boswell
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826263259
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy written by Marshall Boswell and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structure of the finished "mega-novel" echoes the work's thematic rationale." "To help readers who are interested in a particular Rabbit novel. Boswell devotes a chapter to each individual section of the tetralogy. At the same time, he treats each novel as an integral part of the more comprehensive whole." --Book Jacket.