Updike And Politics
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Updike And Politics
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Author : Matthew Shipe
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-06-27
Updike And Politics written by Matthew Shipe and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-27 with Political Science categories.
Updike & Politics presents the first collection of essays devoted to the political aspects of Updike’s work and showcases a variety of international perspectives.
The Moderate Imagination
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Author : Yoav Fromer
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2020-05-07
The Moderate Imagination written by Yoav Fromer and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-07 with Political Science categories.
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s victory in 2016, Americans finally faced a perplexing political reality: Democrats, purported champions of working people since the New Deal, had lost the white working-class voters of Middle America. For answers about how this could be, Yoav Fromer turns to an unlikely source: the fiction of John Updike. Though commonly viewed as an East Coast chronicler of suburban angst, the gifted writer (in fact a native of the quintessential Rust Belt state, Pennsylvania) was also an ardent man of ideas, political ideas—whose fiction, Fromer tells us, should be read not merely as a reflection of the postwar era but rather as a critical investigation into the liberal culture that helped define it. Several generations of Americans since the 1960s have increasingly felt “left behind.” In Updike’s early work, Fromer finds a fictional map of the failures of liberalism that might explain these grievances. The Moderate Imagination also taps previously unknown archival materials and unread works from his college years at Harvard to offer a clearer view of the author’s acute political thought and ideas. Updike’s prescient literary imagination, Fromer shows, sensed the disappointments and alienation of rural white working- and middle-class Americans decades before conservatives sought to exploit them. In his writing, he traced liberalism’s historic decline to its own philosophical contradictions rather than to only commonly cited external circumstances like the Vietnam War, racial strife, economic recession, and conservative backlash. A subtle reinterpretation of John Updike’s legacy, Fromer’s work complicates and enriches our understanding of one of the twentieth century’s great American writers—even as the book deftly demonstrates what literature can teach us about politics and history.
Rabbit Tales
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Author : Lawrence R. Broer
language : en
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Release Date : 1998
Rabbit Tales written by Lawrence R. Broer and has been published by University Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the tales of Rabbit Angstrom - Rabbit, Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit is Rich (1981) and Rabbit at Rest (1990 - Updike's Rabbit, the aging high-school basketball star adrift in the century's confusion, is an archetypal American hero, one strikingly real and individual yet emblematic of his class, his country and his era. Updike's achievements in these novels as poet and historian - his weaving of lyric and epic, of art and four decades of American politics - require that the novels be read on a variety of levels, thus lending themselves to the critical approaches represented in Rabbit Tales.
Memories Of The Ford Administration
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Author : John Updike
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-09-18
Memories Of The Ford Administration written by John Updike and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-18 with Fiction categories.
When historian Alfred “Alf” Clayton is invited by an academic journal to record his impressions of the Gerald R. Ford Administration (1974–77), he recalls not the political events of the time but rather a turbulent period of his own sexual past. Alf’s highly idiosyncratic contribution to Retrospect consists not only of reams of unbuttoned personal history but also of pages from an unpublished project of the time, a chronicle of the presidency of James Buchanan (1857–61). The alternating texts mirror each other and tell a story in counterpoint, a frequently hilarious comedy of manners contrasting the erotic etiquette and social dictions of antebellum Washington with those of late-twentieth-century southern New Hampshire. Alf’s style is Nabokovian. His obsessions are vintage Updike.
John Updike And The Cold War
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Author : Daniel Quentin Miller
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2001
John Updike And The Cold War written by Daniel Quentin Miller and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
One of the most enduring and prolific American authors of the latter half of the twentieth century, John Updike has long been recognized by critics for his importance as a social commentator. Yet, John Updike and the Cold War is the first work to examine how Updike's views grew out of the defining context of American culture in his time -- the Cold War. Quentin Miller argues that because Updike's career began as the Cold War was taking shape in the mid-1950s, the world he creates in his entire literary oeuvre -- fiction, poetry, and nonfiction prose -- reflects the optimism and the anxiety of that decade.
Memories Of The Ford Administration
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Author : John Updike
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994-04-16
Memories Of The Ford Administration written by John Updike and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-04-16 with categories.
Facts Relative To The Political And Moral Claims Of Wilkins Updike
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Author : John W. Richmond
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-12-04
Facts Relative To The Political And Moral Claims Of Wilkins Updike written by John W. Richmond and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-04 with Reference categories.
Excerpt from Facts Relative to the Political and Moral Claims of Wilkins Updike: For the Support of the Whig Electors of the Western District, Providence, 1847 Wilkins updike is again in nomination for Representative to Congress from the Western District of this State. He has accepted the nomination. He is therefore, by his own con sent, before the people subject to their opinions and their censure, if by his prior acts he can be shown unworthy of their support. The writer of this address has never been in public life; he is therefore a stranger to the ter tuons course of men who have made politics their trade. Steadily pursuing his own private avocations, he has not been deeply drawn into party collisions. Whenever his personal or property rights have been violated, he however is, perhaps, as prompt as most others, to exert his whole energies in the vindication of those rights. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Facts Relative To The Political And Moral Claims Of Wilkins Updike For The Support Of The Whig Electors Of The Western District
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Author : John Wilkes Richmond
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1847
Facts Relative To The Political And Moral Claims Of Wilkins Updike For The Support Of The Whig Electors Of The Western District written by John Wilkes Richmond and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1847 with Rhode Island categories.
Couples
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Author : John Updike
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-03-13
Couples written by John Updike and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-13 with Fiction categories.
“Trapped in their cozy catacombs, the couples have made sex by turns their toy, their glue, their trauma, their therapy, their hope, their frustration, their revenge, their narcotic, their main line of communication and their sole and pitiable shield against the awareness of death.”—Time One of the signature novels of the American 1960s, Couples is a book that, when it debuted, scandalized the public with prose pictures of the way people live, and that today provides an engrossing epitaph to the short, happy life of the “post-Pill paradise.” It chronicles the interactions of ten young married couples in a seaside New England community who make a cult of sex and of themselves. The group of acquaintances form a magical circle, complete with ritualistic games, religious substitutions, a priest (Freddy Thorne), and a scapegoat (Piet Hanema). As with most American utopias, this one’s existence is brief and unsustainable, but the “imaginative quest” that inspires its creation is eternal. Praise for Couples “Couples [is] John Updike’s tour de force of extramarital wanderlust.”—The New York Times Book Review “Ingenious . . . If this is a dirty book, I don’t see how sex can be written about at all.”—Wilfrid Sheed, The New York Times Book Review
Reading Political Stories
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Author : Maureen Whitebrook
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Reading Political Stories written by Maureen Whitebrook and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Art categories.
In recent years, the practice of teaching political theory through literature and the arts has become widespread. Taken together, the essays in this book, written by 9 prominent practitioners, review the state of the art in this emerging field, dealing with the general nature of connections between political theory and literature and visual arts, with an eye to its political content and meaning. The contributors consider what makes a literary work political, political values and literature, literature, politics and feminism and the way in which particular novels comment on political thought and behaviour. A particular focus of the volume is the way in which political ideas particular to the American political culture are expressed in American novels - both in classic works and in modern novels and popular fiction.