| John Updike's «Rabbit at Rest»: Appropriating History Contributor(s): Hakutani, Yoshinobu (Editor), Ristoff, Dilvo I. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820439908 ISBN-13: 9780820439907 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $53.15 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Literary Criticism | American - General - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 98004813 |
| Series: Modern American Literature |
| Physical Information: 209 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "John Updike's Rabbit at Rest: Appropriating History" is a new historicist reading of Updike's last Rabbit novel. It follows the day-to-day chronology of events, in the novel and in the media, showing how history, with its variety and polyphonic immediacy, is appropriated by the characters, with what criteria, through which tropes, and to what ideological purpose. Although the emphasis of the text falls on Updike's appropriation of American history in the 1980's as it manifests itself in "Rabbit at Rest," significant references are also made to the other Rabbit novels. These novels show how the history of the earlier decades is made into a "motive" for the characters' thoughts, feelings, and actions. |