Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp vii-viii

List of Abbreviations

pp ix-x

Introduction: Updike as Europeans See Him

pp 1-10

Part I - Coming of Age, Aging in Time

pp 11-12

1 - Under His Skin: Reconstructing the Adolescent Longings of a Would-Be Terrorist

pp 13-27

2 - “At the other end of life's rainbow”: Rabbit's Journey from Adolescence to Old Age and Other Transcendental Trajectories

pp 28-44

3 - Intimations of Mortality: Death's Shadow in Updike's Oeuvre

pp 45-54

Part II - Love, American Style

pp 55-56

4 - Back to the Garden: American Longing in John Updike's Couples

pp 57-71

5 - Women in John Updike's Villages: Back to the Madonna and Whore

pp 72-89

6 - The Art of Love: Pierre Bourdieu, Cultural Production, and Seek My Face

pp 90-102

Part III - Amazing Grace, American Faith

pp 103-104

7 - Psalmist of the Everyday: Late Updike, Aesthetics, and the Language of Praise

pp 105-118

8 - Guilt, Shame, and Hope in Updike's Short Fiction: “The Music School,” “Guilt-Gems,” and “Deaths of Distant Friends”

pp 119-133

9 - Signs of Omission? Socialist Erasure of Religion in John Updike's Work

pp 134-152

Part IV - Old World Myths, New World News

pp 153-154

10 - “Hey, Come On, We're All Americans Here”: The Representation of Muslim-American Identity in John Updike's Terrorist

pp 155-165

11 - Intertextual Updike: Gertrude and Claudius

pp 166-180

12 - Rabbit and the News

pp 181-196

Sources for Further Study

pp 197-206

Notes on the Contributors

pp 207-210

Index

pp 211-220