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John Updike is one of the most prolific and important American authors working today, with an acclaimed body of work that spans half a century. This Companion charts how historical and cultural changes in the second half of the twentieth century have shaped not just Updike's reassessment of America's heritage, but his reassessment of the literary devices by which that legacy is best portrayed. With a chronology and bibliography of Updike's published writings, this is the only guide students and scholars of Updike will need to understand this extraordinary writer.

Introduction: 'A sort of helplessly 50's guy' Stacey

Olster;

Part I. Early Influences and Recurrent Concerns:

　1. Updike, middles, and the spell of 'subjective geography' D.

Quentin Miller;

　2. 'Nakedness' or realism in Updike's early short stories

Kristiaan Versluys;

　3. Updike, religion, and the novel of moral debate Marshall

Boswell;

Part II. Controversy and Difference:

　4. Updike, women, and mythologized sexuality Kathleen

Verduin;

　5. Updike, race, and the postcolonial project Jay Prosser;

　6. Updike, ethnicity, and Jewish-American drag Sanford

Pinsker;

Part III. American Chronicles:

　7. Updike, American history, and historical methodology Edward

Vargo;

　8. Updike, Hawthorne, and American literary history James

Plath;

　9. Updike, film, and American popular culture James A.

Schiff;

　10. John Updike, Rabbit Angstrom, and the myth of American

exceptionalism Donald J. Greiner; Conclusion: U(pdike) &

P(ostmodernism) John N. Duvall; Select bibliography.

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　　John Updike is one of the most prolific and important American

authors of the contemporary period, with an acclaimed body of work

that spans half a century and is inspired by everything from

American exceptionalism to American popular culture. This Companion

joins together a distinguished international team of contributors

to address both the major themes in Updike's writing as well as the

sources of controversy that Updike's writing has often provoked. It

traces the ways in which historical and cultural changes in the

second half of the twentieth century have shaped not just Updike's

reassessment of America's heritage, but his reassessment of the

literary devices by which that legacy is best portrayed. With a

chronology and bibliography of Updike's published writings, this is

the only guide students and scholars of Updike will need to

understand this extraordinary writer.

　　? The only student guide to Updike's work to span his entire

career ? A collection of specially commissioned essays aimed at

students as well as readers of Updike ? Includes discussion of the

cultural and historical background of Updike's fiction

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John Updike is one of the most prolific and important American authors working today, with an acclaimed body of work that spans half a century. This Companion charts how historical and cultural changes in the second half of the twentieth century have shaped not just Updike's reassessment of America's heritage, but his reassessment of the literary devices by which that legacy is best portrayed. With a chronology and bibliography of Updike's published writings, this is the only guide students and scholars of Updike will need to understand this extraordinary writer.