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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Updike"”.
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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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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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The Devil in American literature : a consideration of four texts.
… 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 beginning, …
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Only An Only Child: Stories
… 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
… 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 differences, …
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Writing Terror: Representations of Terror and Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Fiction
… the field of 9/11 fiction (with the exception of Updike’s Terrorist). In doing so, it identifies fertile new ground deserving of further enquiry and examination. The aim of this research is to examine various representations of terror and means of resistance. To achieve this end, five novels that …
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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
… 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 masculinity, …
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"The Subordination of the Privileged: Patriarchal Constructions of Femininity in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald's Save Me the Waltz"
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Zelda Fitzgerald provide unique insight into the patriarchal worlds they lived in through autobiographical accounts of their lives. The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the diaries of Gilman and her first husband, Charles Walter Stetson, serve as Gilman’s …
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Writing the sixties: stardust and golden
… 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 creative …
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"The Very Devil Was In the Elements": The American Civil War, Natural Awareness, and the Beginnings of the Forest Conservation Movement
The America Civil War, natural awareness, and forests had a complex relationship. Through their mostly agrarian lifestyle, soldiers during the American Civil War demonstrated varying levels of natural awareness by writing in their diaries and letters about their daily interactions and observations …
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Triggering transformation: College freshmen use children's literature to consider social justice perceptions
This 3-month long, participatory-action research study with 19 college freshmen exposed students to children's literature selections hoping to initiate dialogue on social justice. The following questions guided the study: 1) How do students in a freshman writing course at a small, private liberal …
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A Modeling Study of the Principal Rainband in Hurricane Matthew (2016) and the Influence of Remote Terrain on Hurricane Structure During its Intensification in the Southern Caribbean
Hurricane Matthew (2016) was a category 5 hurricane that interacted with remote terrain over northern South America in the early stages of its life cycle. Because tropical cyclone (TC) precipitation and convection are known to be crucial factors in the understanding and forecasting of TC intensity, …