Talk:John Updike
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This page needs massive cleanup. I'd help but I have no idea how to do anything on here. You're welcome. 69.114.78.140
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[edit] 2005
I can't find an Updike forum where I can ask this question so I'll try here. I really, really want to know the page number on which I can find the quote 'What a threadbare thing we make of life' in Rabbit at Rest. Anyone know? ZephyrAnycon 21:22, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
I can't seem to find any record of an Updike novel called "The Angels", published in 1968. Any ideas? EgbertW 18:29, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
- Possibly renamed? (Did you purchase it in America?) Very unpopular and out of print? Try searching the catalogues of large library systems.
It looks like it is a poem: [1]. Perhaps the works section should be broken down by category? --Arcadian 22:05, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
What about A&P? nothing has been said? I would very much like to send Mr. Updike an e-mail...How might one accomplish this?
[edit] Quotations
Why are there two sections of quotes and quotations? Also:
"I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability. (Response when asked how he writes women so well)"
Isn't this a quote from the movie As Good As It Gets? Does someone have a citation for Updike that doesn't come from a wiki site?
- Besides Wiki and thinkexist, I found absolutely no other references to it. This sounds like a plant, not homage by the film directors. I removed it, but what you posted is verbatim. Let's leave it in discussion until someone coughs up a source; every other quote has a source.
- I merged the quote sections, too. --Thatnewguy 21:26, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Telephone poles
Isn't the book called Telegraph poles and other poems, and not Telephone poles? Sam Hayes 00:03, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Patriotism
This guy seems to be a little too patriotic and WASPy to me. Unfortunately he appears in every issue of the New Yorker as the typical American white male. Teetotaler
- Thank you for that useless comment Chicopac (talk) 17:44, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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- User:Teetotaler seems a little too French and Liberal to me. Unfortunately he appears in Wikipedia Talk pages as the typical admirer of Che Guevara.Lestrade (talk) 21:59, 22 May 2008 (UTC)Lestrade
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[edit] WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 17:55, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Amis on Updike - Wording?
The section on Amis on Updike is badly worded. Amis being a "sharp critic" on Updike implied to me that he was harsh on him. Of course, technically it could mean 'sharp' as in perceptive, or something, but wording it that way makes it ambiguous. Observing the quotations, three of them are positive and only one negative, so I would prefer to change the wording there. Chicopac (talk) 17:44, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Original claims?
I've temporarily pulled this section as it looks like original research:
- Updike's writing on art exemplifies his usual casual elegance but it lacks originality or, indeed, any depth of understanding of aesthetics or art history. It is based almost entirely upon a now discredited modernist paradigm, which insists upon formalist readings of works of art and a total separation between art and culture, history, and society. Thus, to take one example, Updike's Jefferson lecture, which he presented at the White House on May 23, 2008, pandered to a neo-conservative cultural agenda that excludes the range, richness, and diversity of American artistic production. In attempting to answer the hoary question "What is American about American Art?" Updike resorts to a discredited Cold War paradigm of an essential "Americaness," and somewhat nervously makes his case using a series of examples drawn from the National Endowment for the Humanities's "Picturing America" project, in which American art is almost exclusively the work of white male artists from the eastern seaboard. Thus, for Updike, the "Americaness of American" art boils down to a matter of form ("liney" as a native style) and innocuous biographical anecdote.
This sounds like a review--is it a quote from elsewhere, or original research by a contributor? See Wikipedia:No original research for Wiki policies... --70.94.41.117 (talk) 03:10, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
I first thought this deletion was vandalism. An anonomus user moving a section to the talk page for what they thought was original research. Now that I've read it I have to say that I agree with the user. This section of the article seems to be an opinion than criticism and I beleive is not appropriate. --Npnunda (talk) 04:03, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
