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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"John Updike"”.
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The Cultural Consciousness of John Updike: Rhetorical Spaces as Representations of Americana through the “Rabbit” Series
<p>This thesis is a scholarly examination of John Updike’s first two novels of the Rabbit saga: Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux. The discussion is centered on the cultural artifacts and geographic spaces that populate the novels and how they are a reflection of popular cultural and contemporary …
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A Proper Secularism: Beyond Ideology in Bulgakov, Trilling, Updike and Pynchon
… Beyond Ideology in Bulgakov, Trilling, Updike and Pynchon,” explores the ways in which the literary imagination pushes beyond ideology, and points towards notions of the eternal, by attunement and fidelity to the material. In the terms of Rowan Williams, “if a proper secularism requires …
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Only An Only Child: Stories
… inspiration from writers like Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, Philip Roth, and especially Guy Vanderhaeghe, Only An Only Child forges its own singular path.
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'In defense of the human' : the survival of moral optimism in post-war American fiction
… Malamud.and Chaim Potok and three non-Jews -- John Cheever, John Updike and William Burroughs. This arrangement allows for a discussion of the obvious literary differenlces between Jew and non-Jew in the period. Moreover, it allows for speculation about the cultural processes underlying such …
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Writing the sixties: stardust and golden
… in-depth consideration of the writing strategies John Updike (Rabbit Redux and The Witches of Eastwick) and Philip Roth (American Pastoral) use to create a sense of the Sixties in these novels and how they build their characterisation of the times. The exegesis concludes with an account of the …
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The Devil in American literature : a consideration of four texts.
… Chapter Four treats The Witches of Eastwick, by John Updike, as a text which continues the cycle in the development of attitudes toward moral distinction. The story's protagonists demonstrate no Moral Sense; they enact the principles set forth in Twain's The Chronicle of Young Satan. At the …
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Playing the Game: Violence and the Revolt Against Normative Masculinity in John Updike's Rabbit Run, Norman Mailer's an American Dream, and Phil Andros's $tud
… Norman Mailer's An American Dream (1965) and John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), and examine them through the lens of the lesser-known gay pulp $tud (1966) by Phil Andros. Although $tud's gay hustler protagonist Phil seems to be a progressive, even transgressive example of an alternate …