Updike and Politics

New Considerations
Herausgeber: Dill, Scott; Shipe, Matthew

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Produktbeschreibung

Updike & Politics presents the first collection of essays devoted to the political aspects of Updike's work and showcases a variety of international perspectives.

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Produktdetails

• Politics, Literature, & Film
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 614g
• ISBN-13: 9781498575607
• ISBN-10: 1498575609
• Artikelnr.: 56154509

Autorenporträt

Matthew Shipe is senior lecturer and the director of Advanced Writing in the English department at Washington University, Missouri. Scott Dill is lecturer of English at Case Western Reserve University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Updike and the American Presidency Chapter 2: "We're None of Us
Perfect": Watergate and Adultery in John Updike's A Month of Sundays and
Memories of the Ford Administration Chapter 3: Presidential Politics as
Sexual Politics: Memories of the Ford Administration Chapter 4: Updike,
Obama and the Poetics of Hope Chapter 5: Updike on Demagoguery Chapter 6:
'Love it or leave it': America in red, gray and blue in Rabbit Redux
Chapter 7: 'Mail' Chauvinism: John Updike's Postal Fetish and the
Unrealizable Vision of American Democracy Chapter 8: The Failure of
Moderation in Buchanan Dying and Memories of the Ford Administration
Chapter 9: Inside Reagan's 'Placid, Uncluttered Head': Roger's Version and
the Rise of Neoliberalism Chapter 10: The Politics of Vulnerability in The
Afterlife and Other Stories Chapter 11: John Updike's Terrorist and the
Politics of Hygiene Chapter 12: Updike's Middle East: A Neoliberal Approach
to Conflict Resolution Chapter 13: Updike "Third-Worlds It": Staging The
Coup as Political Satire Chapter 14: The Three Mile Island Accident and the
Man from Toyota: American Cold War Cultural Politics,Ressentiment, and the
Uncanny Double in Rabbit Is Rich and Rabbit at Rest Chapter 15: John Updike
and the World: The Politics of Identity in Brazil