num_pages: 176
description: Updike’s importance in contemporary literature is stressed by this and the following work. Here Mr. Taylor relates Updike to themes domi­nant 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 to critical understanding of an outstanding contemporary writer.
language: English
title: Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral Patterns in John Updike's Fiction
titlecomplete: Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral Patterns in John Updike's Fiction (A Chicago Classic)
publisher: Southern Illinois University Press