Tabla de Contenidos: “…--William Styron.--Harvey Swados.--John Updike…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : Christian orthodoxy and the rhetoric of fiction -- Flannery O'Connor, the irreducibility of belief, and the problem of audience -- Catholicism for "really intelligent people" : the rhetoric of Muriel Spark -- John Updike's rhetoric of Christian American narcissism -- Walker Percy's rhetoric of time, apocalypse, and the modern predicament -- The uses of orthodoxy : Mary Gordon and Marilynne Robinson -- Epilogue : on belief and academic humility…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or, The modern Prometheus (1818) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's daughter" (1844) -- Aldous Huxley's Brave new world (1932) -- Robin Cook's Coma (1977) -- Albert Camus's The plague (1946) -- David Geldshuh's Miss Evers' boys (1990) -- Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest (1962) -- Alice Walker's Possessing the secret of joy (1992) -- John Updike's Rabbit at rest (1990) -- Margaret Edson's Wit (1999)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…End of Life- disease and death: an analysis of John Updike's Rabbit at Rest and Margaret Edson's Wit -- Glossary of terms: literary, medical, and scientific -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Multicultural Boundery Crossings -- Multiculturalism and Immigration / Native-Immigrant Boundaries and Ethnic and Racial Inequalities / Coherence, Difference, and Citizenship: A Genealogy of Multiculturalism / Cultural Reflections of the Unthinkable -- Indecent Exposure: Picturing the Horror of 9/11 / "The Dead Are Our Redeemers": Culture, Belief, and United 93 / Real American Heroes: Attacking Multiculturalism through the Discourse of Heroic Sacrifice / "America under Attack": Unity and Division after 9/11 / "This Godless Democracy": Terrorism, Multiculturalism, and American Self- Criticism in John Updike / Multiculturalism in American History Textbooks before and after 9/11 / Transatlantic Dialogues -- A Kinder, Gentler Europe? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Writing Islam in post-9/11 America : John Updike's Terrorist / Anna Hartnell -- Invading ideologies and the politics of terror : framing Afghanistan in The kite runner / Kristy Butler -- Representation and realism : Monica Ali's Brick Lane / Sara Upstone -- Culture, politics, and religion. -- From "the politics of recognition" to "the policing of recognition" : writing Islam in Hanif Kureishi and Mohsin Hamid / Bart Moore-Gilbert -- Resistance and religion in the work of Kamila Shamsie / Ruvani Ranasinha -- Mourning becomes Kashmira : Islam, melancholia, and the evacuation of politics in Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the clown / Peter Morey…”
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“…Versluys focuses on Don DeLillo's Falling Man, Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers, Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Frederic Beigbeder's Windows on the World, and John Updike's Terrorist. He scrutinizes how these writers affirm the humanity of the disoriented individual, as opposed to the cocksure killer or politician, and retranslate hesitation, stuttering, or stammering into a precarious act of defiance. …”

“…En ninguna parte se reflejan mejor estas dos condiciones como en los legendarios historiales clínicos que aparecen a lo largo de sus obras, cuya estructura literaria, según el novelista John Updike, ”tiene una elegancia arquitectónica que iguala a los mejores escritores de su tiempo”…”

“…In so demonstrating, he offers fresh readings of autobiographies by Roland Barthes, Nathalie Sarraute, William Maxwell, Henry James, Ronald Fraser, Richard Rodriguez, Henry Adams, Patricia Hampl, John Updike, James McConkey, and Lillian Hellman. In the introduction Eakin makes a case for reopening the file on reference in autobiography, and in the first chapter he establishes the complexity of the referential aesthetic of the genre, the intricate interplay of fact and fiction in such texts. …”

“…Muhammad Ali los llamó «mariquitas». John Updike los comparó con el sol saliendo en una mañana de Pascua. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…ROBERT LOWELL; 4.6. JOHN UPDIKE; 4.7. JOHN BARTH; 4.8. LESLIE MARMON SILKO; 4.9. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…It's me, Margaret (1970) / Judy Blume -- Bech, a book (1970) / John Updike -- The book of Daniel (1971) / E.L. Doctorow -- Double or nothing: a real fictitious discourse (1971) / Raymond Federman -- Jacob's son (1971) / Ben Field -- The pagan rabbi and other stories (1971) / Cynthia Ozick -- Edwin Mullhouse: the life and death of an American writer, 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright (1972) / Steven Millhauser -- My name is Asher Lev (1972) / Chaim Potok -- In the days of Simon Stern (1973) / Arthur A. …”
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