John Updike's Human Comedy : Comic Morality in the Centaur and the Rabbit Novels

Name: John Updike's Human Comedy
Brand: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
SKU: 9780820470900
Price: 11350 KES
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ISBN: 9780820470900

by Brian Keener

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Format Hardback

Book Series Modern American Literature

ISBN-10 0820470902

ISBN-13 9780820470900

Publisher Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Imprint Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 9th, 2005

Print length 148 Pages

Weight 364 grams

Dimensions 15.80 x 23.70 x 1.50 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: from c 1900 -

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The comedy in John Updike’s most important works – The Centaur; Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit at Rest; and Rabbit Remembered – defines a comic world and its morality. Although critics have failed to recognize the extent and the importance of Updike’s comedy, his serious fiction does contain a good deal of farce, burlesque, and irony that, far from being peripheral or mere comic relief, depicts the absurd and contradictory nature of life. Within such a world, set in the everyday Pennsylvania of the second half of the twentieth century, human beings mature, or gain Kierkegaard’s ethical sphere, by fulfilling their societal and generational responsibilities. George Caldwell of The Centaur is Updike’s paragon, while Rabbit Angstrom embodies the comic hero who, through trial and error, finally matures. Overall, through an analysis of Updike’s comedy, this book reveals a dimension of his fiction that is essential to understanding his work.

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