Assorted Prose

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812983777
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assorted Prose written by John Updike and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Updike’s first collection of nonfiction pieces, published in 1965 when the author was thirty-three, is a diverting and illuminating gambol through midcentury America and the writer’s youth. It opens with a choice selection of parodies, casuals, and “Talk of the Town” reports, the fruits of Updike’s boyish ambition to follow in the footsteps of Thurber and White. These jeux d’esprit are followed by “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu,” an immortal account of Ted Williams’s last at-bat in Fenway Park; “The Dogwood Tree,” a Wordsworthian evocation of one Pennsylvania childhood; and five autobiographical essays and stories. Rounding out the volume are classic considerations of Nabokov, Salinger, Spark, Beckett, and others, the earliest efforts of the book reviewer who would go on to become, in The New York Times’s estimation, “the pre-eminent critic of his generation.” Updike called this collection “motley but not unshapely.” Some would call it a classic of its kind.

Author : Stanley Trachtenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521438841
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Essays on Rabbit Run written by Stanley Trachtenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-09-24 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection examine the technical mastery and thematic range of John Updike's novel Rabbit Run.

Author : Hedda Ben-Bassat
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838754337
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prophets Without Vision written by Hedda Ben-Bassat and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben-Bassat (English, Tel Aviv U.) discusses crises of ideology and identity in the fiction of contemporary American authors. She contends that the fiction of John Updike, Flannery O'Connor, Grace Paley, James Baldwin, and Alice Walker has absorbed a diversity of prophetic modes from a diversity of

Author : Vladimir E. Alexandrov
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136601570
Total Pages : 849 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov written by Vladimir E. Alexandrov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1995. This companion constitutes a virtual encyclopaedia of Nabokov, and occupies a unique niche in scholarship about him. Articles on individual works by Nabokov, including his short stories and poetry, provide a brief survey of critical reactions and detailed analyses from diverse vantage points. For anyone interested in Nabokov, from scholars to readers who love his works, this is an ideal guide. Its chronology of Nabokov's life and works, bibliographies of primary and secondary works, and a detailed index make it easy to find reliable information any aspect of Nabokov's rich legacy.

Author : Jan Bakker
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789062035908
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on English and American Literature, and a Sheaf of Poems written by Jan Bakker and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1987 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J?rgen Bodenstein
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5881083520
Total Pages : 767 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose written by J?rgen Bodenstein and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1977 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John McTavish
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0718895371
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth and Gospel in the Fiction of John Updike written by John McTavish and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big on style, slight on substance: that has been a common charge over the years by critics of John Updike. In fact, however, John Updike is one of the most serious writers of modern times. Myth, as this book shows, unlocks his fictional universe and repeatedly breaks open the powerful themes in his literary parables of the gospel. Myth and Gospel in the Fiction of John Updike also includes a personal tribute to John Updike by his son David, two essays by pioneer Updike scholars Alice and Kenneth Hamilton, and an anecdotal chapter in which readers share Updike discoveries and recommendations. All in all, weight is added to the complaint that the master of myth and gospel was shortchanged by the Nobel committee.

Author : John Neary
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809317424
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Something and Nothingness written by John Neary and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Neary shows that the theological dichotomy of via negativa (which posits the authentic experience of God as absence, darkness, silence) and via affirmativa (which emphasizes presence, images, and the sounds of the earth) is an overlooked key to examining and comparing the works of John Fowles and John Updike. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of both Christian and secular existentialism within the modern theology of Barth and Levinas and the contemporary critical theory of Derrida and J. Hillis Miller, Neary demonstrates the ultimate affinity of these authors who at first appear such opposites. He makes clear that Fowles's postmodernist, metafictional experiments reflect the stark existentialism of Camus and Sartre while Updike's social realism recalls Kierkegaard's empirical faith in a generous God within a kind of Christian deconstructionism. Neary's perception of uncanny similarities between the two authors--whose respective careers are marked by a series of novels that structurally and thematically parallel each other--and the authors' shared long-term interest in existentialism and theology support both his critical comparison and his argument that neither author is "philosophically more sophisticated nor aesthetically more daring."

Author : Alfred Bendixen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119685648
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the American Short Story written by Alfred Bendixen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoffrey Huck
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190272945
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Is Good Writing? written by Geoffrey Huck and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though we all think we know what good writing is when we see it, it's difficult to define it precisely; and without a satisfactory definition, it becomes problematical to assess as well as to teach. In What Is Good Writing?, Geoffrey J. Huck advances the contemporary debate on writing achievement by drawing on empirical research in linguistics and the other cognitive sciences that shed light on the development of fluency in language. The utility of defining "good writing" as "fluent writing" or writing that is on par with the typical fluency in speech attained by normal adults, is demonstrated by the progress it permits in evaluating the success of current writing programs in school and university--programs which, for the most part, have proved unable to deliver writing assessments that are both valid and reliable. Huck advances an alternative approach that rests on more scientific footing. He explains why reading is key to good writing and why standard composition programs often do not live up to their aspirations.