{"id":4199,"date":"2017-09-16T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4199"},"modified":"2017-09-16T11:09:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T16:09:11","slug":"blogger-quotes-updike-in-essay-on-creativity-from-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/09\/16\/blogger-quotes-updike-in-essay-on-creativity-from-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger quotes Updike in essay on creativity from resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his blog, <em>Snakes and Ladders<\/em>, <strong>Alan Jacobs<\/strong> posted an entry on &#8220;Richard Thompson: creativity from resistance&#8221; that begins,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many years ago now John Updike noted his response to much modern art: &#8216;we feel in each act not only a plenitude (ambition, intuition, expertise, delight, etc.) but an absence\u2014a void that belongs to these creative acts: Nothing is preventing them.&#8217; Art thrives, Updike believed, on <em>resistance<\/em>, on something pushing back hard against the artistic impulse. So, for Updike, this is what the city of Dublin as it was in 1904 did for James Joyce: it resisted him, it demanded to be accounted for and respected. And the greatness of Ulysses derives at least in part from Joyce&#8217;s willingness to reckon honestly with that resistance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ayjay.org\/richard-thompson-creativity-from-resistance\/\">Read the entire blog post<\/a>\u00a0in which Jacobs discusses neglected singer-songwriter Thompson, &#8220;who first came to public attention fifty years ago (!) as the leader of Fairport Convention&#8221; and includes an embedded video of Thompson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his blog, Snakes and Ladders, Alan Jacobs posted an entry on &#8220;Richard Thompson: creativity from resistance&#8221; that begins, &#8220;Many years ago now John Updike noted his response to much modern art: &#8216;we feel in each act not only a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/09\/16\/blogger-quotes-updike-in-essay-on-creativity-from-resistance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular","category-updike-quoted"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199","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\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4200,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions\/4200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}