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Overview
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.Editorials
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A new historicist reading of Updike's last Rabbit novel, which follows the chronology of events in the novel and in the media, and shows how history is appropriated by the characters and made into a motive for their thoughts, feelings, and actions. Ristoff (English, U. of Santa Catarina, Brazil) delves into the topical issues of the debt crisis and the Japanese invasion, the threats of feminism, drugs, and AIDS, and other events contemporaneous with the events of the novel. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
October 1, 1998
Publisher
New York : Peter Lang, c1998.
Pages
209
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780820439907