Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral Patterns in John Updike's Fiction

by Larry E. Taylor and Harry Thornton Moore

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Updike's importance in contemporary literature is stressed by this and the following work. Here Mr. Taylor relates Updike to themesdominant in American literature since colonial days--the idealization of rustic life and rejection of it--both 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0809304848

ISBN13:9780809304844

Release Date:March 1971

Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press

Length:176 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 4.9" x 8.3"

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