Pastoral and anti-pastoral patterns in John Updike's fiction

Author(s)

• Taylor, Larry E.

Bibliographic Information

Pastoral and anti-pastoral patterns in John Updike's fiction

Larry E. Taylor ; with a pref. by Harry T. Moore

（Crosscurrents : modern critiques / Harry T. Moore, general editor）

Southern Illinois University Press , Feffer & Simons, c1971

Note

Bibliography: p. 147-149

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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 daysthe idealization of rustic life and rejection of itboth 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."

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Details

• NCID: BA04857906
• ISBN:
  • 0809304848
• LCCN: 79132490
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Carbondale,London
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 159 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS3571.P4
  • DC : 813/.5/4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Updike, John -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Pastoral literature, American -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Country life in literature
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00076141