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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... give me twinkling feet . I have always been excessively afraid of stepping on women's toes . They do get stepped on , but it is not the issue , just as — as Norman Mailer once told me - bloody noses cease to be the issue once you put on ...
... give me twinkling feet . I have always been excessively afraid of stepping on women's toes . They do get stepped on , but it is not the issue , just as — as Norman Mailer once told me - bloody noses cease to be the issue once you put on ...
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... Give me chastity and continence , but not yet . " For I was afraid that you would answer my prayer at once and cure me too soon of the disease of lust , which I wanted satisfied , not quelled . " His youth passed , and the worst of the ...
... Give me chastity and continence , but not yet . " For I was afraid that you would answer my prayer at once and cure me too soon of the disease of lust , which I wanted satisfied , not quelled . " His youth passed , and the worst of the ...
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... give a genial tinge to His ministry . * The Old Testament contains erotic poetry and a number of erotic episodes ; King David's lusting after Bathsheba , spied at * A reader of the New York Times Book Review wrote to point out that ...
... give a genial tinge to His ministry . * The Old Testament contains erotic poetry and a number of erotic episodes ; King David's lusting after Bathsheba , spied at * A reader of the New York Times Book Review wrote to point out that ...
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... give the authors of the epics a single name - was dealing with a world that was , to him , archaic . His treatment ... give decent burial to Hec- tor's corpse , restores himself to the sacralized order of noble civility . As if to a kind ...
... give the authors of the epics a single name - was dealing with a world that was , to him , archaic . His treatment ... give decent burial to Hec- tor's corpse , restores himself to the sacralized order of noble civility . As if to a kind ...
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... give up their pursuit of the guilt - haunted Orestes and to accept , in return , shrines and worship within Athens . Thus the darkest and most nebulous of the gods are brought within a religious system ; Athena assures the Furies , " No ...
... give up their pursuit of the guilt - haunted Orestes and to accept , in return , shrines and worship within Athens . Thus the darkest and most nebulous of the gods are brought within a religious system ; Athena assures the Furies , " No ...
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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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