Imagination and Idealism in John Updike's Fiction
Publisher: Camden House
Published: Mar 15, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781571139429
Description: "This book looks past the frequently discussed autobiographical nature of John Updike's fiction to consider the role in Updike's work of the most powerful and peculiar human faculty: the imagination. Michial Farmer argues that, while the imagination is for Updike a means of human survival and a necessary component of human flourishing, it also has a destructive, darker side, in which it shades into something like philosophical idealism." --publisher description.
Notes: Source title: Imagination and Idealism in John Updike's Fiction (Mind and American Literature)