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Becoming John Updike - Critical Reception, 1958-2010 (Paperback)
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Becoming John Updike - Critical Reception, 1958-2010 (Paperback)
Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective
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A study of the journalistic and academic reception of the writings
of one of the great American writers of the late twentieth century.
When John Updike died in 2009, tributes from the literary
establishment were immediate and fulsome. However, no one reading
reviews of Updike's work in the late 1960s would have predicted
that kind of praise for a man who was known then as a brilliant
stylist who had nothing to say. What changed? Why? And what is
likely to be his legacy? These are the questions that Becoming John
Updike pursues by examining the journalistic and academic response
tohis writings. Several things about Updike's career make a
reception study appropriate. First, he was prolific: he began
publishing fiction and essays in 1956, published his first book in
1958, and from then on, brought out atleast one new book each year.
Second, his books were reviewed widely - usually in major American
newspapers and magazines, and often in foreign ones as well. Third,
Updike quickly became a darling of academics; the first book about
his work was published in 1967, less than a decade after his own
first book. More than three dozen books and hundreds of articles of
academic criticism have been devoted to Updike. The present volume
will appeal to the continuing interest in Updike's writing among
academics and general readers alike. Laurence W. Mazzeno is
President Emeritus of Alvernia University. Among other books, he
has written volumes on Austen, Dickens, Tennyson,and Matthew Arnold
for Camden House's Literary Criticism in Perspective series.
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