John Updike : a collection of critical essays / edited by David Thorburn and Howard Eiland.

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Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0139376070
9780139376078
0139375996
9780139375996

Subject(s):

Updike, John -- Criticism and interpretation

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LOC classification:

PS3571.P4 Z74 1979

Contents:

Introduction / David Thorburn -- The rabbit novels. An image of precarious life / Richard Gilman ; Rabbit Angstrom's unseen world / Dean Doner ; Rabbit's progress / Richard Locke ; Updike, Malamud, and the fire this time / Robert Alter -- Marriage novels. Updike's American comedies / Joyce Carol Oates ; Play in couples / Howard Eiland ; Post-pill paradise lost : Couples / David Lodge ; A month of Sundays : scarlet letters / George Steiner ; Updike as matchmaker : Marry me / Josephine Hendin -- Olinger novels. The poorhouse fair : a fragile vision of specialness / Joyce Markle ; The centaur : epic paean and pastoral lament / Larry E. Taylor ; A note on character in The centaur / Martin Price ; Shrine and sanctuary : Of the farm / Edward P. Vargo ; Family quarrels in Of the farm / Charles Thomas Samuels -- The coup. Updike in Africa / Robert Towers ; Boy's life / Deborah McGill -- The short stories. The same door : unexpected gifts / Robert Detweiler ; Memory in Pigeon feathers / Arthur Mizener ; Updike's search for liturgy / Michael Novak ; The music school : a place of resonance / Charles Thomas Samuels ; Keeping up with Updike : Bech: a book / Jack Richardson ; At the flashpoint : Museums and women / Rosemary Dinnage ; Disengagement in Museums and women / Richard Todd -- Chronology of important dates -- Notes on the editors and contributors -- Selected bibliography.

Summary: A collection of critical essays examining individual texts as well as more general accounts of the religious and sexual themes that run through his fiction.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Book	Tıp Fakültesi Medikal Kütüphane Genel Koleksiyon / Main Collection	Tıp Fakültesi Medikal Kütüphane	Genel Koleksiyon	PS3571.P4 Z74 1979 TıpFaK (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Ödünç Verilemez-Kurumiçi kullanım / Not for loan-For inhouse use	Donated by Prof. Dr. Şükrü Cin		TF03138

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A collection of critical essays examining individual texts as well as more general accounts of the religious and sexual themes that run through his fiction.

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