Title: Imagination and Idealism in John Updike's Fiction
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.
Subjects: American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Criticism and interpretation, Imagination in literature, Idealism in literature