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Imagination and idealism in John Updike's fiction /
This book looks past the frequently discussed autobiographical nature of John Updike's fiction to consider the role in Updike's work of the most powerful and peculiar human faculty: the imagination. Michial Farmer argues that, while the imagination is for Updike a means of human survival a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, New York :
Camden House,
2017.
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| Colección: | Mind and American literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Hawthorne, Updike, and the immoral immagination
- John Updike and the existentialist imagination
- Part I. The "mythic immensity" of the parental imagination
- "Flight," "His mother inside him," and "Ace in the hole"
- The centaur
- Of the farm, "A sandstone farmhouse," and "The cats"
- Part II. Collective hallucination in the adulterous society
- "Man and daughter in the cold," "Giving blood," "The taste of metal," and "Avec la bébé-sitter"
- Part III. Imaginative lust in the Scarlett letter trilogy
- "The football factory," "Toward evening," "Incest," "Still life," "Lifeguard," "Bech swings?" and "Three illuminations in the life of an American author"
- A mouth of Sunday
- Roger's version
- S.
- Part IV. Female power and the female imagination
- "Marching through Boston," "The stare," "Report of health," "Living with a wife," and "Slippage"
- The witches of eastwick
- Part V. The remembering imagination
- "In football season," "First wives and trolley cars," "The day of the dying rabbit," "Leaving church early," and "The egg race"
- Memories of the Ford administration
- "The dogwood tree," "A soft spring night in Shillington," and "On being a self forever"
- Conclusion: Updike, realism, and postmodernism.