{"id":5157,"date":"2021-07-04T09:17:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T14:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5157"},"modified":"2021-07-04T09:24:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T14:24:17","slug":"listen-to-a-lecture-on-the-updike-story-separating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2021\/07\/04\/listen-to-a-lecture-on-the-updike-story-separating\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to a lecture on the Updike story Separating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The past two years have seen a huge jump in online classes, with an equally large number of asynchronous courses and assignments. You can watch\/listen to Dr. John Pistelli<\/strong>‘s interesting lecture on Updike and “Separating” on YouTube<\/a>. It’s part of his English 1201W: Contemporary American Literature course that was offered spring 2021. “Separating” is the Updike story included in the main textbook for the course, The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume E: Literature Since 1945<\/em>, Ninth Edition. Pistelli says that he doesn’t “care much about” the story\u2014”I don’t think it’s Updike’s best work.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pistelli calls Updike a polarizing writer\u2014you either love him or you don’t. “I actually like Updike, so I understand the critiques of him.” Pistelli considers Updike a “lyrical realist” and asserts that there’s “no critique in Updike”\u2014that everything is described more or less without judgment being passed. He also sees in Updike a tendency towards sentimentality and what he terms “a laziness of intellect” that helps to explain the response of critics who see Updike as a stylist without much to say. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pistelli is a lecturer at the University of Minnesota who specializes in Modern British and American fiction, history\/theory of the novel, Modernism, and fiction writing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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