Conversations with John Updike (Literary Conversations) - Softcover

Fensch, Thomas; Updike, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878057005 ISBN 13: 9780878057009

Verlag: University Press of Mississippi, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

John Updike says: Any act of description is, to some extent, an act of praise, so that even when the event is unpleasant or horrifying or spiritually stunning, the very attempt to describe it is, in some way, part of that Old Testament injunction to give praise. Even though my books strike many people as immoral or morally useless, to me they are really moral investigations of how we live, and harsh, perhaps, because the standards are otherworldly. There was a tradition among my peers for frank and open talk, and I'd always been a rather shy, priggish, unexperienced adolescent. So maybe my revenge as a young adult was to put down all the dirty words that I'd always been a little shy about using. James Plath, a professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University, is editor-publisher of "Clockwatch Review" and director of Hemingway Days Writer's Workshop and Conference in Key West.

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Thomas Fensch has a doctorate from Syracuse University in print communication and has taught at the university level for 35-plus years.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0878057005
• ISBN 13: 9780878057009
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 302
• Herausgeber: Plath James
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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