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

by Larry E. Taylor and Harry Thornton Moore

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"