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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... turns out to be this inward dwindling " ( 97 ) . When discussing the decline of American industry with his son ... turn the entropy imagery into a clever barb aimed at himself : " D'you ever get the feeling that everything these days is ...
... turns at one point to look at this show , what Dr. Meyers of Littleton saw with him was " the shadow of his heart on an X - ray monitor screen , ... webbed by its chambered structure and whitened in snaky streaks and bulbous oblongs by ...
... turns out not to be so easy . On the drive south , play actually does turn into pray , if in somewhat farcical terms . A Supreme Court ruling against organized prayer before foot- ball matches has infuriated the South . The mayor of ...
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Rabbit Tales: Poetry and Politics in John Updike's Rabbit Novels Lawrence R. Broer No preview available - 2000 |