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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... Tetralogy Commenting on the 1969 moon landing , Harry “ Rabbit ” Angstrom notes that " Columbus flew blind and hit ... tetralogy as well " ( Odd Jobs 870-71 ) . The Rabbit books , then , elicit Jeff H Campbell "Middling, Hidden, Troubled ...
... Tetralogy From Solitude to Society to Solitude Again Frederick R. Karl , in his exhaustive survey of postwar American fiction , has little to say about novel sequences because , he claims , in comparison to Brit- ain , there is a ...
... tetralogy's major unifying mo- tifs , relating Harry's early sports experience with later adult entanglements . 6. In the first two Rabbit novels , females die . Possibly in the bafflement of es- cape , a kind of reversal takes place ...
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