{"id":5431,"date":"2022-04-14T09:04:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T14:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5431"},"modified":"2022-04-14T09:11:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T14:11:44","slug":"new-essay-published-on-updikes-short-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2022\/04\/14\/new-essay-published-on-updikes-short-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"New essay published on Updike&#8217;s short stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>John Updike Society member <strong>Haruki Takebe<\/strong> wrote that his essay, &#8220;The Apocrypha of <em>The Maples Stories<\/em>: John Updike&#8217;s Fe\/Male Points of View Reconsidered,&#8221; was published in the most recent issue of <em><strong>Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction<\/strong><\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The journal has allowed the author 50 free downloads, so if you&#8217;re among the first to click on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/eprint\/XE62R3DMZNQKHXYKNGBZ\/full?target=10.1080\/00111619.2022.2063709\">link<\/a> you can read the article compliments of the author and <em>Critique<\/em>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ABSTRACT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-14-at-7.57.08-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"169\" height=\"229\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-14-at-7.57.08-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5432\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>John Updike\u2019s notorious penchant for using the male point of view should not be attributed to the author\u2019s alleged misogyny; on the contrary, his careful handling of male and female perspectives deserves close re-evaluation. After tracing how the young Updike struggled to incorporate a female point of view in his early fiction and, for a time, settled on employing a male perspective in his mid-career stories of Richard and Joan Maple, this essay revolves around a female-voiced story \u201cKilling\u201d (drafted in 1975 and published in 1982), scrutinizing its publication history and the archival materials associated with it. As a result, we see that the story demonstrates Updike\u2019s successful attempt to explore a woman\u2019s interiority as well as shows an example of his subtle craftsmanship, involving his use of the pronoun us at the sto-ry\u2019s d\u00e9nouement. Moreover, \u201cKilling\u201d foreshadows Updike\u2019s female narratives in his late phase, especially <em>Seek My Face <\/em>(2002), where the similar technique is extensively utilized to portray two women\u2019s incompatibility and their following reconciliation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Updike Society member Haruki Takebe wrote that his essay, &#8220;The Apocrypha of The Maples Stories: John Updike&#8217;s Fe\/Male Points of View Reconsidered,&#8221; was published in the most recent issue of Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. The journal has allowed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2022\/04\/14\/new-essay-published-on-updikes-short-stories\/\">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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5431","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\/5431","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=5431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5434,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431\/revisions\/5434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}