{"id":3584,"date":"2016-12-11T15:11:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T21:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3584"},"modified":"2016-12-11T15:27:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T21:27:47","slug":"members-book-on-updikes-fiction-now-available-for-pre-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/12\/11\/members-book-on-updikes-fiction-now-available-for-pre-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Member&#8217;s book on Updike&#8217;s fiction now available for pre-order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Imagination-Idealism-Updikes-American-Literature\/dp\/1571139427\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1481491572&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=michial+farmer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3586\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/12\/Farmerbook.jpg\" alt=\"farmerbook\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/12\/Farmerbook.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/12\/Farmerbook-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Michial Farmer<\/strong>, who presented a paper on &#8220;The Failure of Moderation in\u00a0<em>Buchanan Dying<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Memories of the Ford Administration<\/em>&#8221; at the Fourth Biennial John Updike Society Conference in Columbia, S.C., has written a book on <em>Imagination and Idealism in John Updike&#8217;s Fiction <\/em>that is now available for pre-order from Camden House and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Imagination-Idealism-Updikes-American-Literature\/dp\/1571139427\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1481491572&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=michial+farmer\">Amazon<\/a>. The book (236pp., cloth) is scheduled for March 2017 publication.<\/p>\n<p>From the Boydell and Brewer website:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Concentrating on the role of the imagination in Updike&#8217;s works, this book shows him to be an original and powerful thinker and not the callow sensationalist that he is sometimes accused of being.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This book looks past the frequently discussed autobiographical nature of John Updike&#8217;s fiction to consider the role in Updike&#8217;s work of the most powerful and peculiar human faculty: the imagination. Michial Farmer argues that, while the imagination is for Updike a means of human survival and a necessary component of human flourishing, it also has a destructive, darker side, in which it shades into something like philosophical idealism. Here the mind constructs the world around it and then, unhelpfully, imposes this created world between itself and the &#8216;real world.&#8217; In other words, Updike is not himself an idealist but sees idealism as a persistent temptation for the artistic imagination. Farmer builds his argument on the metaphysics of Jean-Paul Sartre, an existentialist thinker who has been largely neglected in discussions of Updike&#8217;s aesthetics. The book demonstrates the degree to which Updike was an original and powerful thinker and not the callow sensationalist that he is sometimes accused of being.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Michial Farmer is Assistant Professor of English at Crown College, Saint Bonifacius, Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michial Farmer, who presented a paper on &#8220;The Failure of Moderation in\u00a0Buchanan Dying and\u00a0Memories of the Ford Administration&#8221; at the Fourth Biennial John Updike Society Conference in Columbia, S.C., has written a book on Imagination and Idealism in John Updike&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/12\/11\/members-book-on-updikes-fiction-now-available-for-pre-order\/\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584","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=3584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3590,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions\/3590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}