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John Updike's Early Years

John Updike's Early Years

Autor: Jack De Bellis

Número de Páginas: 200

John Updike’s Early Years first examines his family, then places him in the context of the Depression and World War II. Relying upon interviews with former classmates, the next chapters examine Updike’s early life and leisure activities, his athletic ability, social leadership, intellectual prowess, comical pranks, and his experience with girls. Two chapters explore Updike’s cartooning and drawing, and the last chapter explains how he modeled his characters on his schoolmates. Lists of Updike’s works treating Pennsylvania, and a compilation of contributions to his school paper are included, along with profiles of all students, faculty and administrators during his years at Shillington High School.

A Doctor's War

A Doctor's War

Autor: Arthur L. Ludwick, Jr., M.d., , Peggy Ludwick

Número de Páginas: 265

A medical officer in the 34th "Red Bull" Infantry Division on the front lines of World War II, Lt. Col./Maj. Arthur L. Ludwick, Jr., was responsible for the well-being of traumatized and wounded American soldiers through some of the bloodiest engagements in North Africa and Italy: Kasserine and Fondouk Passes, Hill 609, Monte Pantano, Cassino, and Anzio. He was awarded both the Purple Heart and Silver Star, unusual combat commendations for an unarmed medical officer. His letters home detail his experiences, with keen observations of the people and landscapes. Based on Ludwick's letters and an archive of interviews, military documents and photos, this multifaceted narrative, compiled by his daughter, also tells the story of her discovery of her father as the young man she never knew.

The John Updike Encyclopedia

The John Updike Encyclopedia

Autor: Jack De Bellis

Número de Páginas: 584

John Updike is one of the most seminal American writers of the 20th century and one of the most prolific as well. In addition to his best-selling novels, he has written numerous poems, short stories, reviews, and essays. His writing consistently reveals stylistic brilliance, and through his engagement with America's moral and spiritual problems, his works chronicle America's hopes and dreams, failures and disappointments. Though he is an enormously popular writer, the complexity and elegance of his works have elicited growing scholarly attention. Through several hundred alphabetically arranged entries, this book provides both casual and serious readers an exceptional guide to his life and writings. Whether the reader is seeking a novel summary, an authoritative analysis of subjects, elucidation of an allusion, or a point about Updike's life or manner of composition, the encyclopedia is indispensable. A chronology summarizes the major events in Updike's career, while an introductory essay examines his progress as a writer, from his crafted light verse and informed reviews to his innovative novels and stories. The entries that follow summarize Updike's books, describe all major...

Thine the Amen

Thine the Amen

Autor: Carlos R. Messerli

Número de Páginas: 324

The essays in this book, by distinguished musicologists, teachers, and church musicians, reflect the Lutheran musical heritage of the church and contribute new insights into the vibrant and diverse traditions of twenty-first century church music. Thine the Amen is a practical, instructional, and scholarly book. These essays contain something for everyone interested in sacred music, the teacher, the singer, or the listener.

John Updike Remembered

John Updike Remembered

Autor: Jack A. De Bellis

Número de Páginas: 230

Fifty-three individuals present a prismatic view of the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and his work through anecdote and insight. Interviews and essays from family, friends and associates reveal sides of the novelist perhaps unfamiliar to the public--the high school prankster, the golfer, the creator of bedtime stories, the charming ironist, the faithful correspondent with scholars, the devoted friend and the dedicated practitioner of his craft. The contributors include his first wife, Mary Pennington, and three of their children; high school and college friends; authors John Barth, Joyce Carol Oates and Nicholson Baker; journalists Terri Gross and Ann Goldstein; and scholars Jay Parini, William Pritchard, James Plath, and Adam Begley, Updike's biographer.

Odd Jobs

Odd Jobs

Autor: John Updike

Número de Páginas: 1025

To complement his work as a fiction writer, John Updike accepted any number of odd jobs—book reviews and introductions, speeches and tributes, a “few paragraphs” on baseball or beauty or Borges—and saw each as “an opportunity to learn something, or to extract from within some unsuspected wisdom.” In this, his largest collection of assorted prose, he brings generosity and insight to the works and lives of William Dean Howells, George Bernard Shaw, Philip Roth, Muriel Spark, and dozens more. Novels from outposts of postmodernism like Turkey, Albania, Israel, and Nigeria are reviewed, as are biographies of Cleopatra and Dorothy Parker. The more than a hundred considerations of books are flanked, on one side, by short stories, a playlet, and personal essays, and, on the other, by essays on his own oeuvre. Updike’s odd jobs would be any other writer’s chief work.

De trillende tuinman en andere Parkinsonbeelden

De trillende tuinman en andere Parkinsonbeelden

Autor: Joost Haan , Frans Meulenberg

Número de Páginas: 200

Dit boek gaat over romans waarin de ziekte van Parkinson een belangrijk thema is en bevat zeventien essays waarin Joost Haan toelicht hoe verschillende auteurs uit de wereldliteratuur de ziekte van Parkinson beschrijven als eigenschap van hun romanfiguren. Hij adviseert zijn patiënten vanwege de therapeutische werking van de literatuur deze boeken te lezen en vraagt daarna hoe ze de boeken vonden. Zo heeft hij een aanknopingspunt om na te gaan wat patiënten op dat moment bezighoudt. Over deze ziekte, aldus Joost Haan kun je lezen in een medisch boek maar dan begrijp je de betekenis ervan voor een patiënt nog niet. Een schrijver kruipt in de huid van de romanfiguur, beschrijft hem vaak van binnenuit. Binnen de wereldliteratuur bestaan vele romans waarin deze ziekte een rol speelt. In dit boek wordt toegelicht hoe de ziekte van Parkinson werd ontdekt en waarom en hoe romanciers de ziekte gebruikten.

Yearbook of the Music Educators National Conference

Yearbook of the Music Educators National Conference

Autor: Music Educators National Conference (u.s.)

Número de Páginas: 756
Linage Book of the Charter Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution (revised)

Linage Book of the Charter Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution (revised)

Autor: Daughters Of The American Revolution

Número de Páginas: 902

Includes inclusive "Errata for the Linage book."

Greene County, Arkansas

Greene County, Arkansas

Número de Páginas: 1583

The history of the community and people of Greene County, Arkansas.

Slagel Trails and Descendants of Jacob Slagle (ca 1740s-1800, in VA)

Slagel Trails and Descendants of Jacob Slagle (ca 1740s-1800, in VA)

Autor: Rebecca Dunham Kartalia

Número de Páginas: 480
The Official ABMS Directory of Board Certified Medical Specialists

The Official ABMS Directory of Board Certified Medical Specialists

Autor: American Board Of Medical Specialties

Número de Páginas: 2942

The Official ABMS Directory is a database that includes over 600,000 physician profiles, including their board certification status. The current edition allows users to... Research physicians' education, hospital and academic appointments, professional memberships, and certification/recertification status. Find board-certified specialists in any geographic area. Locate qualified healthcare pro-fessionals for a preferred provider plan, and monitor the qualifications of physicians already in the plan. Refer patients with confidence, and keep up to date on career moves and the whereabouts of colleagues.

Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution

Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution

Autor: Daughters Of The American Revolution

Número de Páginas: 748
Records of the Reformed Church of Fort Plain in the Town of Minden, Montgomery County, N. Y.

Records of the Reformed Church of Fort Plain in the Town of Minden, Montgomery County, N. Y.

Número de Páginas: 404
John Updike

John Updike

Autor: Jack De Bellis

Número de Páginas: 332

Twenty-seven critics, as well as Updike himself, provide a kaleidoscopic view of the Rabbit Angstrom saga in 34 reviews and essays. There is dual purpose of this collection of critical responses: first, to provide a historical view of the critical reception of all of Updike's works about Harry Rabbit Angstrom—the four Rabbit novels and the novella Rabbit Remembered and second, to show how these reviews and articles can illuminate the reader with the range of approaches to the saga. These responses to the saga reveal the reception of each installment of the saga and how critical acclamation rose with each work. The first reviews of Rabbit, Run noted Updike's ability to redeem an ex-basketball player's ordinary life through brilliant, innovative style. Scholarly essays debated whether Rabbit was a satiric figure. Updike's sequel, Rabbit Redux, showed how, for reviewer Richard Locke the inner surface of banal experiences could be blended seamlessly to social unrest and war. A later critic, Irina Negrea adopted the Jean Baudrillard to critique Marshall McLuhan's optimistic vision of the global village. Reviewer Thomas R. Edwards found that Rabbit Is Rich is composed of meditations...

Hoyer-Urkundenbuch. (Alphabetisch-chronologische Register.).

Hoyer-Urkundenbuch. (Alphabetisch-chronologische Register.).

Autor: Wilhelm Von Baron Hodenberg

Número de Páginas: 438
Selected Poems

Selected Poems

Autor: John Updike

Número de Páginas: 350

A post-humous, autobiographical collection of poetry from John Updike, one of the most celebrated American writers of the twentieth cenury and author of modern classic novel Rabbit, Run Updike had a boundless capacity for curiosity and delight. This collection of poems from across his career displays his extraordinary range in form and subject: from metaphysical epigrams, and lyrical odes to blank-verse sonnets, on topics from Roman busts to Lucian Freud to postage stamps. These poems are nimble and inventive, exploring art, science, popular culture, foreign travel, erotic love, growth, decay and rebirth. Collected in chronological order, from precocious undergraduate efforts to frequently anthologized classics, this is an autobiography in verse for every Updike fan and a celebration of twentieth century American life.

Selected Poems of John Updike

Selected Poems of John Updike

Autor: John Updike

Número de Páginas: 322

The best from Updike’s lifework in poetry: 129 witty and intimate poems that, when read together take on the quality of an autobiography in verse. • By a master of American letters and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. “Updike’s gift for close observation, in these poems as elsewhere, is near to supernatural.” —The New York Times Five decades of witty, intimate, and moving poems—written between 1953 and 2008—with the cumulative force of an unfolding verse-diary. Though John Updike is widely known as one of America’s greatest writers of prose, both his first book and his last were poetry collections, and in the fifty years between he published six other volumes of verse. Now, six years after his death, Christopher Carduff has selected the best from Updike’s lifework in poetry: 129 witty and intimate poems that, when read together in the order of their composition, take on the quality of an unfolding verse-diary. Among these poems are precocious undergraduate efforts (including the previously unpublished “Coming into New York”), frequently anthologized midcareer classics (“Seagulls,” “Seven Stanzas at Easter,” “Dog’s Death”), and dozens ...

Hoyer urkundenbuch: bd.] 2. abth. Archiv des stiftes Bassum. 3. abth. Archiv des stiftes Bücken. 4. abth. Archiv des klosters Heiligenberg. 5. abth. Archiv des klosters Heiligenrode. 6. abth. Archiv des klosters Nendorf. 7. abth. Archiv des klosters Schinna. 8. abth. Sonstige quellen. Ortsregister

Hoyer urkundenbuch: bd.] 2. abth. Archiv des stiftes Bassum. 3. abth. Archiv des stiftes Bücken. 4. abth. Archiv des klosters Heiligenberg. 5. abth. Archiv des klosters Heiligenrode. 6. abth. Archiv des klosters Nendorf. 7. abth. Archiv des klosters Schinna. 8. abth. Sonstige quellen. Ortsregister

Autor: Wilhelm Von Hodenberg

Número de Páginas: 1240

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