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Becoming John Updike : critical reception, 1958-2010 /
When John Updike died in 2009, tributes from the literary establishment were immediate and fulsome. However, no one reading reviews of Updike's work in the late 1960s would have predicted that kind of praise for a man who was known then as a brilliant stylist who had nothing to say. What change...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, New York :
Camden House,
2013.
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| Colección: | Literary criticism in perspective.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | When John Updike died in 2009, tributes from the literary establishment were immediate and fulsome. However, no one reading reviews of Updike's work in the late 1960s would have predicted that kind of praise for a man who was known then as a brilliant stylist who had nothing to say. What changed? Why? And what is likely to be his legacy? These are questions that ""Becoming John Updike"" pursues by examining the journalistic and academic response to his writings. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (272 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781571138453 1571138455 9781571138439 1571138439 9781580468848 1580468845 |