Cosmic Defiance: Updike's Kierkegaard and the 'Maples Stories'

Author:   David Crowe
Publisher:   Mercer University Press
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9780881465020


Pages:   448
Publication Date:   30 December 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Cosmic Defiance: Updike's Kierkegaard and the 'Maples Stories'


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John Updike once wrote that many of his works are """"illustrations of Kierkegaard,"""" and yet no current study provides an extended, convincing reason why this is so, why Updike came to live by Søren Kierkegaard's ideas. This study does, telling the story of Updike's life-altering encounter withFear and Trembling in his early career, and tracing the subsequent evolution of Updike's complex and coherent theology. Examining Updike's many claims about Kierkegaard's life and work, and casting those claims into debate with Kierkegaard's best scholars and critics, this book explains why Kierkegaard and his intellectual inheritors Karl Barth and Miguel de Unamuno provided Updike with a reason to live, and a vocation as an antinomian Christian writer. The study pursues the same question Updike did: how are identity and action bound up with faith in God? The eighteen intensely autobiographical Maples stories, chapters in the tale of a twenty-two-year marriage that begins hopefully but ends in divorce, epitomize the theological preoccupations Updike learned from Kierkegaard--becoming an authentic self and learning to love the neighbor creatively rather than compulsively.

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Author:   David Crowe
Publisher:   Mercer University Press
Imprint:   Mercer University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9780881465020


ISBN 10:   088146502
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   30 December 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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David Crowe is professor of English at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, USA. A graduate of Luther College and the University of Minnesota, he is a Fulbright Scholar (Norway), and has published on Ernest Hemingway, Wendell Berry, John Updike, Walker Percy, and others.

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