This paper is one of the research progress and outcomes of the programs“Urban Poetics of John Updike’s Poetry”(2016SJD750045);“Study on Multimodal Narrative in the 21st Century American Novels”(20BWW036),and“Study on Shakespeare’s City Play”(2021SJA1192).
Based on Robert E.Park’s theoretical frame of social urban study,the“psychophysical mechanism”,urban poetics mainly researches the mutual relations between the physical and the moral organizations of a city in urba...
The sarcastic"rebel"Sammy aspires to shun the rules that bind him. Three girls who wear nothing but bathing suits in A&P prompt him to change his situation. The girls are objectified by the Other's look. They feel emb...
As a famous American novelist,John Updike shows his great artistic expressiveness in The Christian Roommates in three aspects:polarized characterization,psychological description and scenic description and the use of ...
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John Updike has been an acute observer of human conditions.Social conformity and individualism is a pair of collision.To be submissive or rebellious determines the direction of the protagonist's growth and a forward l...
John Updike is a copious writer having a great influence on contemporary American literary history, whose artistic vision is mainly focused on the daily life of American middle class and their living conditions. The p...