Rabbit Tales
Poetry and Politics in John Updike's Rabbit Novels
Will be published approx. on 28. February 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-0-8173-1037-0 (ISBN)
Description
In the tales of ""Rabbit"" Angstrom - ""Rabbit, Run"" (1960), ""Rabbit Redux"" (1971), ""Rabbit is Rich"" (1981) and ""Rabbit at Rest"" (1990 - Updike's Rabbit, the ageing 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 achievements in these novels as poet and historian - his 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 critical approaches represented in ""Rabbit Tales"". Lawrence R. Broer brings together 12 essays by prominent Updike scholars to illuminate the achievement of the four Rabbit novels and demonstrate the importance of the Rabbit novels to Updike's canon and to 20th-century American literature as a whole.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Alabama
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8173-1037-0 (9780817310370)
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Person
Lawrence R. Broer is Professor of English at the University of South Florida and author of Sanity Plea: Schizophrenia in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, also published by The University of Alabama Press.