The expression of the family conflicts in the short story cycle Too Far to Go by John Updike

Abstract

John Updike belongs to the post-war generation of contemporary American writers, whose work was largely determined by the philosophical direction and the aesthetic level of the contemporary literary process in the United States. The work of John Updike was addressed by such researchers as R. Dottweiler, E. and K. Hamilton, J. W. Hunt, L. Taylor, D. Greiner and many others. The theoretical significance of the dissertation is due to the need to study the problems of literary cyclization in its relations with such categories as world recognition and the style of the writer. The works of American literary scholars devoted to the study of genre studies of American short stories and problems of the literary cycle will be introduced into the thesis. The object of research of the thesis are short novels by John Updike in the 50-70s which together form Too Far to Go. The subject of the study is the theme of the family and its embodiment in the novelistic cycle of John Updike in the same cycle. The purpose of the dissertation is to study the features of John Updike's short stories on the material of the Too Far to Go, following the development of the theme of family, marriage, relations between men and women and its solutions.