Rabbit Tales: Poetry and Politics in John Updike's Rabbit NovelsLawrence R. Broer These essays show the Rabbit novels to be a carefully crafted fabric of changing hues and textures, of social realism and something of grandeur, worthy of Dickens, Thackeray, and Joyce. In the tales of"Rabbit" Angstrom-Rabbit, Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981), and Rabbit at Rest (1990) John Updike has produced one of the most compelling literary tapestries of our time. Updike's Rabbit, the aging high-school basketball star adrift in the century's confusion, is an archetypal American hero, one strikingly real and individual yet emblematic of his class, his country, and his era. Updike's remarkable achievements in these novels as poet and historian-his ingenious weaving of lyric and epic, of art and four decades of American politics-require that the novels be read on a variety of levels, thus lending themselves to the diverse critical approaches represented in Rabbit Tales. Lawrence R. Broer brings together twelve essays by prominent Updike scholars to illuminate the unique achievement of the four Rabbit novels and demonstrate unequivocally the importance of the Rabbit novels to Updike's canon and to 20th-century American literature as a whole. |
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... American life . " Our condition is basically one of anxiety , of lostness , " he says . Life is a search for " a sense of having found home , " yet the very dynamic that drives Americans to dream and to seek - the sense of " wanting ...
... American Novel : Updike , James , and Hawthorne . He also worries about his golf game . Jack B. Moore is a Professor of English and American Studies , and member of the Institute on Black Life , at the University of South Florida . He ...
... America : The Presence of Contemporary American History in John Updike's Rabbit Trilogy , as well as articles on Joseph Conrad , James Joyce , Ford Madox Ford , Saul Bellow , Philip Roth , John Updike , and other contemporary American ...
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Rabbit Tales: Poetry and Politics in John Updike's Rabbit Novels Lawrence R. Broer No preview available - 2000 |