{"id":4897,"date":"2019-10-14T16:02:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T21:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4897"},"modified":"2019-10-14T16:02:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T21:02:05","slug":"updike-society-well-represented-at-new-orleans-short-story-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2019\/10\/14\/updike-society-well-represented-at-new-orleans-short-story-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike Society well represented at New Orleans short story conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

In September, 2019, four members of The John Updike Society presented papers at a New Orleans symposium sponsored by the Society for the Study of the American Short Story<\/strong> and the American Literature Association<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Robert Luscher, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, formed the panel, which also included Professor Laurence W. Mazzeno, President Emeritus of Alvernia University, Reading, PA; Takashi Nakatani, Associate Professor of English, American Literature, and Literary Criticism of Yokohama City University, Japan; and Dr. Sue Norton, Lecturer of English at Technological University Dublin.<\/p>\n

Their papers focused on John Updike’s “Divorcing,” selections from My Father’s Tears and Other Stories,<\/em> selections from\u00a0The Olinger Stories<\/em>, and “Separating.”\u00a0 <\/em>The session was chaired by Associate Professor of English Leslie Petty of Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee.<\/p>\n

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John Updike\u2019s Short Fiction
\n<\/b>Chair: Leslie Petty, Rhodes College
\n1.\u00a0 \u201cWriting and Well Being: Story as Salve in the Work of Two Updikes,\u201d Susan Norton, Technological University, Dublin
\n2.\u00a0 \u201cOutside the Grand Narrative: The Personal in John Updike\u2019s Olinger Stories,\u201d<\/i>\u00a0 Takashi Nakatani, Okohama City University
\n3.\u00a0 \u201cMy Father\u2019s Tears and Other Stories<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>as (Literary) Last Will and Testament,\u201d Laurence W. Mazzeno, Alvernia University
\n4.\u00a0 \u201cJohn Updike\u2019s \u2018Divorcing: A Fragment\u2019 and the Question of Genre: Shoring Stories against the Ruins in\u00a0<\/span>Too Far to Go,<\/i>\u201d Robert M. Luscher, University of Nebraska at Kearney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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