John Updike's Rabbit at rest
appropriating history
by Dilvo I. Ristoff
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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.
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Harry Angstrom, Literature and history, Harry Angstrom (Fictitious character), Characters, History, Angstrom, harry (fictitious character), Historical fiction, history and criticism, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Updike, john, 1932-2009, American Historical fiction, History and criticismPeople
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John Updike's Rabbit at rest: appropriating history
1998, P. Lang, Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
in English
0820439908 9780820439907
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