John Updike's Rabbit tetralogy : mastered irony in motion / Marshall Boswell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boswell, Marshall, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Angstrom, Harry (Fictitious character).

Angstrom, Harry.

Updike, John--Characters--Harry Angstrom.

Updike, John.

Updike, John--Knowledge--United States.

National characteristics, American, in literature.

Irony in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Early in his career, John Updike announced his affinity with the Christian existentialism of Soren Kierkegaard, Paul Tillich, Karl Barth, and others. Because of this, many of Updike's crities have interpreted his work from within a Christian existentialist context. Yet Kierkegaard and Barth provide Updike with much more than a mere context, for their dialectical thinking serves as the springboard for Updike's own unique dialectical vision, a complex matrix of ethical precepts, theological beliefs, and aesthetic principles that governs nearly all of his literary output. Nowhere else in his immense corpus is this vision more clearly and thoroughly expressed than in his four Rabbit novels, which were gathered into the single volume Rabbit Angstrom in 1995. However, because Updike's critics have chosen to read the Rabbit novels as discrete, freestanding texts, they have by and large failed to extract the precepts of this private vision.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

A Note on the Texts

Introduction Rabbit Rebound

One Rabbit, Run

Two Rabbit Redux

Three Rabbit Is Rich

Four Rabbit at Rest

Conclusion Inside America

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-246) and index.

ISBN:

9780826263254

0826263259

OCLC:

301088643