{"id":757,"date":"2010-12-06T16:30:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T22:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=757"},"modified":"2011-10-28T08:31:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T13:31:43","slug":"757","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2010\/12\/06\/757\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike&#8217;s debut as a literary character?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2010\/12\/57182145.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-759\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2010\/12\/57182145.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a>Brian Keener, author of <em>John Updike&#8217;s Human Comedy: Comic Morality in <\/em>The Centaur<em> and the Rabbit Novels<\/em>, writes that &#8220;our man John Updike has now made an appearance as a literary character. According to a book review of Steve Martin&#8217;s new novel, <em>An Object of Beauty<\/em>, in <em>The New York Times <\/em>on Nov. 26 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/28\/books\/review\/Jacobs-t.html\">&#8220;Only Collect,&#8221; by Alexandra Jacobs<\/a>), Updike appears &#8220;in the form of a stranger on a train&#8221; with the heroine addressing him, &#8216;Sit down, father figure.&#8217; This development may open up a new vein of Updike scholarly investigation: John Updike as a literary character.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And to think that a comic actor may have started the ball rolling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Keener, author of John Updike&#8217;s Human Comedy: Comic Morality in The Centaur and the Rabbit Novels, writes that &#8220;our man John Updike has now made an appearance as a literary character. According to a book review of Steve Martin&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2010\/12\/06\/757\/\">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-757","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\/757","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=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}