Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral Patterns in John Updike's Fiction (A Chicago Classic) - Hardcover

Taylor, Assistant Professor Larry E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809304848 ISBN 13: 9780809304844

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1971

Synopsis

Updike’s importance in contemporary literature is stressed by this and the following work. Here Mr. Taylor relates Updike to themes domi­nant in American literature since colonial days the idealization of rustic life and rejection of it both of which themes show in Updike’s work, according to Taylor. In relating Updike’s fiction to pastoral and anti-pastoral patterns Taylor makes a valuable contribution to literary history as well as to critical understanding of an outstanding contemporary writer.

About this title

About the Author:

Larry E. Taylor is Assistant Professor of English at Southern Illinois Uni­versity.

About this edition

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0809304848
• ISBN 13: 9780809304844
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176