The quest for epic in contemporary American fiction : John Updike, Philip Roth and Don DeLillo / by Morley, Catherine, 1977-

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Understanding John Updike / by Svoboda, Frederic Joseph, 1949-, PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Cover; UNDERSTANDING JOHN UPDIKE; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Series Editorâ#x80;#x99;s Preface; Preface; Chapter 1 Understanding John Updike; Chapter 2 The Rabbit Angstrom Tetralogy: Updikeâ#x80;#x99;s Masterpiece and Template for Understanding His Works; Chapter 3 The Maples Stories, Olinger Stories, and Other Short Fiction; Chapter 4 Couples (1968); Chapter 5 The Shadow of Nathaniel Hawthorne and New England Puritanism: The Eastwick and Scarlet Letter novels; Chapter 6 Guide to Major Works: The Henry Bech Novellas; Chapter 7 A Brief Summing Up; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Higher gossip : essays and criticism / by Updike, John

Table of Contents: “…Table Talk -- The End of Authorship -- In Defense of the Amateur Reader -- A Poetics of Book Reviewing -- An American View of English Fiction -- Comment on "Poetry's Failure in the Marketplace" -- Foreword to the 1982 Edition of The Carpentered Hen -- Introduction to the 1977 Edition of The Poorhouse Fair -- From the Afterword to Buchanan Dying -- Reply to Paul Boyer's Appraisal of Memories of the Ford Administration -- Letter to Rosemary Herbert, Book Review Editor of the Boston Herald, Anent Gertrude and Claudius -- Introduction to Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels -- Foreword to The Early Stories: 1953-1975 -- Foreword to Too Far to Go: The Maples Stories -- Note on "The Indian" -- Note on Bech: His Oeuvre -- Replies to Three Questions About Licks of Love -- The Original Ending of Self-Consciousness -- On One's Own Style -- Letter Included as an Afterword to the introduction of Updike in Cincinnati -- The Courage of Ballplayers -- Post-Hubble Astronomy -- On "The American Idea" -- Commencement Address, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1993 -- Accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Conference on Christianity and Literature.…”