Bob Batchelor

John Updike (eBook, PDF)

A Critical Biography

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

One of the world's greatest writers, John Updike chronicled America for more than five decades. This book examines the essence of Updike's writing, propelling our understanding of his award-winning fiction, prose, and poetry. Widely considered "America's Man of Letters," John Updike is a prolific novelist and critic with an unprecedented range of work across more than 50 years. No author has ever written from the variety of vantages or spanned topics like Updike did. Despite being widely recognized as one of the nation's literary greats, scholars have largely ignored Updike's vast catalog of work outside the Rabbit tetralogy. This work provides the first detailed examination of Updike's body of criticism, poetry, and journalism, and shows how that work played a central role in transforming his novels. The book disputes the common misperception of Updike as merely a chronicler of suburban, middle-class America by focusing on his novels and stories that explore the wider world, from the groundbreaking The Coup (1978) to Terrorist (2006). Popular culture scholar Bob Batchelor asks readers to reassess Updike's career by tracing his transformation over half a century of writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313384042
• Artikelnr.: 68183991

Autorenporträt

Bob Batchelor, PhD, is assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kent State University and academic coordinator of its online master's program in public relations. Batchelor is the author or editor of 21 books, including 3 volumes in Greenwood's "Popular Culture through History" series: The 1900s, The 1980s, and The 2000s. In addition, he edited Greenwood's four-volume American Pop: Popular Culture Decade by Decade and Praeger's three-volume American History through American Sports.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments 1 John Updike: An American Writer and His Times 2
Why Write: Updike as Craftsman, Professional, and Celebrity 3 Pennsylvania
as American Ideal 4 Updike's Poetry 5 Rabbit, Run and American Culture 6
Chronicler of American Sexuality 7 Rabbit Lives and Dies 8 Between Writer
and Reader: Updike as Critic 9 Master Storyteller 10 Radical Departures:
Updike as Experimental Novelist 11 Updike's Audience 12 Racing toward the
Apocalypse: Updike's New America 13 Evolution of a Literary Lion Conclusion
Bibliography Index