{"id":2984,"date":"2015-06-10T08:10:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T13:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2984"},"modified":"2015-06-10T08:10:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T13:10:46","slug":"published-couples-essay-from-1996-now-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/06\/10\/published-couples-essay-from-1996-now-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Published Couples essay from 1996 now online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/06\/220px-Couples.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2985\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/06\/220px-Couples.jpg\" alt=\"220px-Couples\" width=\"220\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/06\/220px-Couples.jpg 220w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/06\/220px-Couples-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>Updike scholars and fans can now access a critical essay on\u00a0<em><strong>Couples<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>that was published in\u00a0<em>The International Fiction Review <\/em>23 (1996):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.lib.unb.ca\/index.php\/IFR\/article\/viewFile\/14328\/15405\">&#8220;Fire, Rain, Rooster: \u00a0John Updike&#8217;s Christian Allegory in <em>Couples<\/em>,&#8221;<\/a> by <strong>Sukhbir Singh<\/strong>, University of Chicago, begins,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most critics deal with John Updike&#8217;s <em>Couples<\/em> (1969) as a book about &#8216;sex,&#8217; and &#8216;adultery.&#8217; They invariably argue that in <em>Couples<\/em>, Updike advocates promiscuity as an antidote to the prevalent climate of nihilism, and he thereby repudiates a cardinal dictum of Christianity: &#8216;Though Shalt Not Commit Adultery.&#8217; These commentators pay scant attention to Updike&#8217;s view of the supernatural and miss his allegorical motif in the novel. Contrary to their assertions, I will argue that <em>Couples<\/em> is a novel of spiritual awakening, taking into account the symbolic significance of the burning church in the text, and that in his novels Updike upholds the Christian belief in the presence of God and the piety of love, sex, and marriage.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updike scholars and fans can now access a critical essay on\u00a0Couples\u00a0that was published in\u00a0The International Fiction Review 23 (1996): &#8220;Fire, Rain, Rooster: \u00a0John Updike&#8217;s Christian Allegory in Couples,&#8221; by Sukhbir Singh, University of Chicago, begins, &#8220;Most critics deal with John &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/06\/10\/published-couples-essay-from-1996-now-online\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarship-analysis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2986,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions\/2986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}