John Updike /
Detweiler, Robert
John Updike / by Robert Detweiler. - First paperback edition. - 200 pages : portrait ; 21 cm - Twayne's United States authors series ; TUSAS 481 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
John Updike: out of the ordinary -- The same door: unexpected gifts -- The poorhouse fair: the godless city of God -- Rabbit, run: the quest for a vanished grail -- Pigeon feathers: the design of design -- The centaur: guilt through redemption -- Of the farm: the failed poet and the urban Earth mother -- The music school: strange chords and strained cords -- Couples: Tristan and Don Juan in Tarbox -- Bech: a book: the Protestant as Jew -- Rabbit redux: the space beyond myth -- More fiction of the seventies: the exertions of Eros -- Problems, and, Too far to go: love above the void -- Rabbit is rich, and, Bech is back: sequels and success.
Examines the texture and structure of Updike's writing, with special attention to the metaphoric language, above all the image patterns, that mark his style.
080577422X 9780805774221 0805774297 9780805774290
83018472
000002918813 AU
Updike, John--Criticism and interpretation
Literary criticism
PS3571.P4 / Z64 1984
John Updike / by Robert Detweiler. - First paperback edition. - 200 pages : portrait ; 21 cm - Twayne's United States authors series ; TUSAS 481 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
John Updike: out of the ordinary -- The same door: unexpected gifts -- The poorhouse fair: the godless city of God -- Rabbit, run: the quest for a vanished grail -- Pigeon feathers: the design of design -- The centaur: guilt through redemption -- Of the farm: the failed poet and the urban Earth mother -- The music school: strange chords and strained cords -- Couples: Tristan and Don Juan in Tarbox -- Bech: a book: the Protestant as Jew -- Rabbit redux: the space beyond myth -- More fiction of the seventies: the exertions of Eros -- Problems, and, Too far to go: love above the void -- Rabbit is rich, and, Bech is back: sequels and success.
Examines the texture and structure of Updike's writing, with special attention to the metaphoric language, above all the image patterns, that mark his style.
080577422X 9780805774221 0805774297 9780805774290
83018472
000002918813 AU
Updike, John--Criticism and interpretation
Literary criticism
PS3571.P4 / Z64 1984
