More Matter: Essays and CriticismRandom House Publishing Group, 19 февр. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 928 In this collection of nonfiction pieces, John Updike gathers his responses to nearly two hundred invitations into print, each “an opportunity to make something beautiful, to find within oneself a treasure that would otherwise remain buried.” Introductions, reviews, and humorous essays, paragraphs on New York, religion, and lust—here is “more matter” commissioned by an age that, as the author remarks in his Preface, calls for “real stuff . . . not for the obliquities and tenuosities of fiction.” Still, the novelist’s shaping hand, his gift for telling detail, can be detected in many of these literary considerations. Books by Edith Wharton, Dawn Powell, John Cheever, and Vladimir Nabokov are incisively treated, as are biographies of Isaac Newton, Abraham Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth II, and Helen Keller. As George Steiner observed, Updike writes with a “solicitous, almost tender intelligence. The critic and the poet in him . . . are at no odds with the novelist; the same sharpness of apprehension bears on the object in each of Updike’s modes.” |
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... body , gets along best . Our equality is a matter of rights , not circumstances . The defense and definition of those rights call into being the prodigious and prodigal number of American lawsuits and lawyers . For rights conflict . My ...
... body , gets along best . Our equality is a matter of rights , not circumstances . The defense and definition of those rights call into being the prodigious and prodigal number of American lawsuits and lawyers . For rights conflict . My ...
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... body's needs , of our sexual and emotional compulsions , or of other people from cradle to grave . When one set of interrelations is fled , we blunder into another , and my hero finds , in the end , that freedom is a momentary sensation ...
... body's needs , of our sexual and emotional compulsions , or of other people from cradle to grave . When one set of interrelations is fled , we blunder into another , and my hero finds , in the end , that freedom is a momentary sensation ...
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... body , and hungry and desper- ate people will usually exchange some of their freedom for food and secu- rity . Such an exchange functions as the basis for every society . In the tribal societies that gave rise to the first monarchical ...
... body , and hungry and desper- ate people will usually exchange some of their freedom for food and secu- rity . Such an exchange functions as the basis for every society . In the tribal societies that gave rise to the first monarchical ...
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... spent . Perhaps the Fifties didn't truly end until November of 1963 , when John F. Kennedy was shot , and the demons frozen in the iceberg came out to swarm . GENDER AND HEALTH The Disposable Rocket INHABITING A MALE BODY THE FIFTIES : 29.
... spent . Perhaps the Fifties didn't truly end until November of 1963 , when John F. Kennedy was shot , and the demons frozen in the iceberg came out to swarm . GENDER AND HEALTH The Disposable Rocket INHABITING A MALE BODY THE FIFTIES : 29.
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Essays and Criticism John Updike. GENDER AND HEALTH The Disposable Rocket INHABITING A MALE BODY is like having a bank account ; as long as it's healthy , you don't think much about it . Compared with the female body , it is a low ...
Essays and Criticism John Updike. GENDER AND HEALTH The Disposable Rocket INHABITING A MALE BODY is like having a bank account ; as long as it's healthy , you don't think much about it . Compared with the female body , it is a low ...
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THE BURGLAR ALARM 220 | 72 |
THE GLITTERING CITY | 79 |
GEOGRAPHICAL CALENDRICAL TOPICAL | 97 |
Babies by Mary Steichen Calderone and Edward Steichen | 684 |
Updike and I | 757 |
Introduction to SelfSelected Stories | 767 |
Foreword to Brother Grasshopper | 773 |
Note on My Father on the Verge of Disgrace | 776 |
Note for an Exhibit of New Yorker Cartoons | 787 |
Christmas Cards | 797 |
Reflections on Radio | 803 |
INTRODUCTIONS | 139 |
AMERICAN PAST MASTERS | 214 |
PHOTOS | 266 |
NORTH AMERICAN CONTEMPORARIES | 291 |
OVERSEAS | 338 |
OTHER CONTINENTS | 397 |
MEDLEYS | 434 |
THINGS AS THEY | 571 |
MOVIES | 641 |
Accepting the Bobst Award | 810 |
Introduction to the Easton Press Edition of the Rabbit Novels | 816 |
Special Message for the Franklin Library Edition of Memories | 825 |
Special Message for the Franklin Library Edition | 832 |
Foreword to the French Translation of Facing Nature | 838 |
Index | 857 |
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