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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... Rabbit Redux is finally an- swered by Updike in his novel Brazil ( 1994 ) . The major complaints about Rabbit Redux include charges of misrepresenting America in the 1960s— " image follows predictable image of ugliness , sterility ...
... Rabbit " 25 ) . What looked like rebellion against society and authority in Rabbit , Run developed into patriotic defense of the Vietnam War in Rabbit Redux and , in Rabbit Is Rich , into a cozy acceptance of the capi- talist system and ...
... Rabbit badly damages two women : we do not see the results for Ruth until twenty years later in Rabbit Is Rich , but the consequences for Janice constitute a large part of both Rabbit , Run and Rabbit Redux . One indirect result of Rabbit's ...
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