| Title: | Pastoral Elements in Updike’s Work |
| Author: | Carmen Diaconescu |
| Publication: | Annals of „Valahia” University of Târgovişte. Letters Section, VI |
| p-ISSN: | 2066-6373 |
| Publisher: | Valahia University Press |
| Place: | Târgoviște |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Abstract: | This study tries to present some of the pastoral elements in John Updike's writings, especially in his finest work, The Centaur, which would have established him as a major writer. J. Updike's epigraph to The Centaur is a quotation from the theologian Karl Barth: “Heaven is the creation unconceivable to man, earth is the creation conceivable to him. He himself is the creature on the boundary between heaven and earth.” Two creations exist heavenly and earthly, spiritual and material, ideal and real, unconscious and conscious, imaginative and empirical, divine and temporal, epic and pastoral. In his novel, man is not able to conceive one of the creations and employs earth, that creation that he can conceive to explain the other. |
| Key words: | pastoral-concerned with spiritual guidance of a body of Christians, paean-chant of praise or triumph, torso-trunk of human statue apart from head and limbs, lament- passionate expression of grief |
| Language: | English |
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