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IMAGINATION AND IDEALISM IN JOHN UPDIKE'S FICTION (MIND By Michial Farmer *NEW*
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- ISBN-10
- 1571139427
- Book Title
- Imagination and Idealism in John Updike's Fiction (Mind and
- Genre
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- ISBN
- 9781571139429
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1571139427
ISBN-13
9781571139429
eBay Product ID (ePID)
228996027
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
236 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Imagination and Idealism in John Updike's Fiction
Subject
History & Surveys / Modern, American / General, Movements / Humanism
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Series
Mind and American Literature Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
18.2 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2016-041258
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Throughout the book, Farmer brings Updike's short stories into the discussion, revealing the wide scope of his familiarity with Updike's vast oeuvre. An enjoyable, focused scholarly study, this is an excellent addition to the literature on Updike. Recommended., Throughout the book, Farmer brings Updike's short stories into the discussion, revealing the wide scope of his familiarity with Updike's vast oeuvre. An enjoyable, focused scholarly study, this is an excellent addition to the literature on Updike. Recommended. CHOICE
Dewey Edition
23
Series Volume Number
3
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Table Of Content
Introduction: Hawthorne, Updike, and the Immoral ImaginationJohn Updike and the Existentialist Imagination"Flight," "His Mother Inside Him," and "Ace in the Hole" The Centaur Of the Farm , "A Sandstone Farmhouse," and "The Cats""Man and Daughter in the Cold," "Giving Blood," "The Taste of Metal," and "Avec la Bebe-Sitter" Marry Me Couples and "The Hillies""The Football Factory," "Toward Evening," "Incest," "Still Life," "Lifeguard," "Bech Swings?" and "Three Illuminations in the Life of an American Author" A Month of Sundays Roger's Version S. "Marching through Boston," "The Stare," "Report of Health," "Living with a Wife," and "Slippage" The Witches of Eastwick "In Football Season," "First Wives and Trolley Cars," "The Day of the Dying Rabbit," "Leaving Church Early," and "The Egg Race" Memories of the Ford Administration "The Dogwood Tree," "A Soft Spring Night in Shillington," and "On Being a Self Forever"Conclusion: Updike, Realism, and PostmodernismBibliographyIndex
Synopsis
Concentrating on the role of the imagination in Updike's works, this book shows him to be an original and powerful thinker and not the callow sensationalist that he is sometimes accused of being. This book looks past the frequently discussed autobiographical nature of John Updike's fiction to consider the role in Updike's work of the most powerful and peculiar human faculty: the imagination. Michial Farmer argues that, while the imagination is for Updike a means of human survival and a necessary component of human flourishing, it also has a destructive, darker side, in which it shades into something like philosophical idealism. Here the mind constructs the world around it and then, unhelpfully, imposes this created world between itself and the "real world." In other words, Updike is not himself an idealist but sees idealism as a persistent temptation for the artistic imagination. Farmer builds his argument on the metaphysics of Jean-Paul Sartre, an existentialist thinker who has been largely neglected in discussions of Updike's aesthetics. The book demonstrates the degree to which Updike was an original and powerful thinker and not the callow sensationalist that he is sometimes accused of being. Michial Farmer is Assistant Professor of English at Crown College, Saint Bonifacius, Minnesota., Concentrating on the role of the imagination in Updike's works, this book shows him to be an original and powerful thinker and not the callow sensationalist that he is sometimes accused of being., This book looks past the frequently discussed autobiographical nature of John Updike's fiction to consider the role in Updike's work of the most powerful and peculiar human faculty: the imagination. Michial Farmer argues that, while the imagination is for Updike a means of human survival and a necessary component of human flourishing, it also has a destructive, darker side, in which it shades into something like philosophical idealism. Here the mind constructs the world around it and then, unhelpfully, imposes this created world between itself and the "real world." In other words, Updike is not himself an idealist but sees idealism as a persistent temptation for the artistic imagination. Farmer builds his argument on the metaphysics of Jean-Paul Sartre, an existentialist thinker who has been largely neglected in discussions of Updike's aesthetics. The book demonstrates the degree to which Updike was an original and powerful thinker and not the callow sensationalist that he is sometimes accused of being.Michial Farmer is Assistant Professor of English at Crown College, Saint Bonifacius, Minnesota.
LC Classification Number
PS3571.P4Z66 2017
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