Considering technique as well as theme, Larry Taylor treats the function of the pastoral and antipastoral in Updike’s fiction and places that treatment within a long tradition in American literature. Rachel Burchard explores Updike’s fiction in terms of its presentations of authentic quests for meaning in modern times, for answers to age-old questions about humanity and God, and of its affirmation of human worth and hope despite the social and natural forces threatening defeat of the human enterprise. Alice and Kenneth Hamilton were among the first critics to give extensive treatment to the religious and theological elements in Updike’s fiction. The growing and already substantial body of criticism Updike’s work has engendered, therefore, reflects a variety of approaches. A writer with John Updike’s (Ma– January 27, 2009) versatility and range, whose fiction reveals a virtual symphonic richness and complexity, offers readers a variety of keys or themes with which to explore his work.
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