The Cambridge companion to John Updike [[Book] /]
John Updike.
Stacey Olster.
- 1st ed.
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- 193 p. ; 24 cm.
- Cambridge companions to literature .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-185) and index.
Updike, middles, and the spell of "subjective geography" / D. Quentin Miller -- "Nakedness" or realism in Updike's early short stories / Kristiaan Versluys -- Updike, religion, and the novel of moral debate / Marshall Boswell -- Updike, women, and mythologized sexuality / Kathleen Verduin -- Updike, race, and the postcolonial project / Jay Prosser -- Updike, ethnicity, and Jewish-American drag / Sanford Pinsker -- Updike, American history, and historical methodology / Edward Vargo -- Updike, Hawthorne, and American literary history / James Plath -- Updike, film, and American popular culture / James A. Schiff -- Updike, Rabbit, and the myth of American exceptionalism / Donald J. Greiner -- Conclusion: U(pdike) & p(ostmodernism) / John N. Duvall.