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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... keep the diagonal line . Solitude is impracticable , and society fatal . We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other . The conditions are met , if we keep our independence , yet do not lose our sympathy " ( Complete ...
... keep his independence while developing his " sympathy . " Rabbit has invested , however , so much in his image of ... keeps Harry fallen and unsatisfied in Rabbit Is Rich is sex and paternity . Since Janice is unable to have any more ...
... keep Nelson more or less pure , don't let Stavros turn too hard on Nelson , help Jill find her way home . Keep Pop healthy . Me too . Amen " ( 176 ; Updike's emphasis ) . Updike's own choice of the Christian worldview shows in his hero ...
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Rabbit Tales: Poetry and Politics in John Updike's Rabbit Novels Lawrence R. Broer No preview available - 2000 |