, This was an era when we lived by television, and those two just came in off the set into Rabbit's lap, John Updike Revisited, vol.45, 1960.
, is striking: two ex-athletes, two Swedes, two representatives of Middle America, xii The parallel with Swede Levov, 1997.
, The Presence of Contemporary American History in John Updike's Rabbit Trilogy, p.105, 1988.
, In her review of Rabbit at Rest, Michiko Kakutani thus unfavorably compares "the unfortunate Rabbit Redux [which] tried to turn Harry's life into a timely parable by awkwardly inserting relevant people and events into the plot" to the "powerfully organic feel" of, xiv This may explain why this novel has been considered by most critics to be the weakest of the tetralogy
, Updike Has a Quartet, The New York Times, 1990.
, Updike's strategy with both Jill and Skeeter is to bring the headlines of the 1960s into Rabbit's living room; as he states, John Updike Revisited, vol.45, 1998.
, xvi The term "silent majority
, Ken Kesey, John Updike and the Lone Ranger, Journal of Popular Culture, vol.8, issue.3, p.571, 1954.
, At last it happens. The real event. Or is it? A television camera on the leg of the module comes on: an abstraction appears on the screen, xviii The fateful moment when Armstrong steps on the moon is described in the novel in terms of a blurred abstraction
, Conversations with John Updike, p.225, 1994.
, Unyoung, Unpoor, Unblack': John Updike and the Construction of
, Thus the two races are contrasted in terms similar to Eldridge Cleaver's 'primeval mitosis' theory: Whites have all become sterile, bodiless intellect (technology), and Blacks are the physical -fertile, sexual [?] By the end of the book Rabbit feels that his ejaculations, which used to resemble 'space flight' (White/technology) are now 'shouts of anger' (black militancy?). Rabbit is acquiring, it is hinted, a new identity, Fighters and Lovers. Theme in the Novels of John, vol.44, p.157, 1973.
, Ohio UP), 77. xxiii Fittingly, the epigraph for Rabbit is Rich is extracted from Wallace Stevens' poem "A, John Updike's Novels
, Hub Fans" has recently been reissued by the Library of America, with an introduction by Updike that was among the last things he worked on before his, xxiv Updike's account of Ted Williams' last baseball game, 1960.
, Of Binaries, Sports Writing, and Transcendence, vol.59, p.25, 2018.
, She appears to wear no makeup, no lipstick, except for her eyes, which are inhuman, Egyptian, drenched in peacock purple and blue, not merely outlined but re-created [?] These marvellously masked eyes?" (572). The implicit comparison between Mim, the Western girl, and the character of the Lone Ranger is reinforced by another metaphor
, Rabbit Redux Reduced, Rabbit Tales -Poetry and Politics
, 120. xxvii Plath, Conversations with John Updike, p.88, 1998.
, Skeeter is not a mirror-image of one specific historic character, but instead he is more of a distortion than an average, formed by the agglutination of various forces of the black movement, having a little of them all, The Presence of Contemporary American History in John Updike's Rabbit Trilogy, vol.103
, Echoes of "The Second Coming" ring through the novel, in particular the obsession with collapse and shattering, The Literary Review, vol.27, issue.1, 1983.
, xxx The terrorized Nelson will try in vain to counter this mounting violence, a trauma that he will carry into adulthood
, That's what the late Sixties were for everybody, wild scenes, pp.1162-1165
, I can understand both his anger and his passivity
, Harry I try to remain open [?] I try to love both the redneck and the flower child, the anarchist bomb thrower, vol.62
, Conversations with John Updike, vol.225, p.26
, Unyoung, Unpoor, Unblack': John Updike and the Construction of Middle American Masculinity, p.349
, Books of the Times; Just Thirty Years Later, Updike Has a Quartet, The New York Times, 1990.
, in his preface to Rabbit Angstrom, wittily remarks that "[t]he eventual reunion of the married couple in the Safe Haven Motel is managed with the care and gingerly vocabulary of a spacecraft docking
, From the Latin reducere, 'to bring back,' it is defined by Webster's as 'led back; specif., Med., indicating return to health after disease
, , p.43
, On the recurrent sacrifice of Iphigenia in the tetralogy, see Mary Gordon, Good Boys and Dead Girls, vol.858, 1991.
, The Presence of Contemporary American History in John Updike's Rabbit Trilogy, p.98
, xl Skeeter's spitting into Rabbit's hand, as well as his final words, add to the enigmatic nature of this farewell
, xli Boswell writes of Rabbit's 60's conservatism that "whatever everyone else is for, Rabbit must be against, and whatever everyone is against, Rabbit must be for
, Mastered Irony in Motion, Columbia and London: U of
, 78). I am indebted to Marshall Boswell's enlightening chapter, 2001.
, Picked-Up Pieces, p.510, 1975.
, On Not Being a Dove, Commentary, 1989.
, Unlike such estimable elders as Vonnegut, Vidal and Mailer, I have little reformist tendency and instinct for social criticism [?] It was the savagery, between 1965 and 1973, of the domestic attack upon the good faith and common sense of our government, especially of that would-be Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, that astonished me [?] Civil disobedience was antithetical to my Fifties education [?] Rabbit would serve as a receptacle for my disquiet and resentments, This essay was reprised in Self-Consciousness
, Hugging the Shore, vol.859
, Rabbit Tales -Poetry and Politics in John Updike's Rabbit Novels, 5. The final note for each of the installments of the Rabbit saga remains very much Updike's signature, summing up the tone of each volume, and marking a pause
, Self-Consciousness, 143. See Donald J. Greiner
, The Cambridge Companion to John Updike (Stacey Olster ed, 2006.
, The Education of Harry Angstrom: Rabbit and the Moon, The Literary Review, vol.27, issue.1, pp.117-143, 1983.
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, Defiance and Acceptance: Two Modes of Cultural Response in Mailer's American Dream and The Armies of the Night and Updike's Rabbit Redux, Indian Journal of American Studies, vol.14, issue.2, pp.103-112, 1984.
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, Unyoung, Unpoor, Unblack': John Updike and the Construction of Middle American Masculinity, Modern Fiction Studies, vol.44, issue.2, pp.331-63, 1998.
, American Pastoral, 1997.
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, Hub Fans Bid Kids Adieu, The New Yorker, 1960.
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