Brian Keener
John Updike’s Human Comedy
- Comic Morality in "The Centaur</I> and the "Rabbit</I> Novels
ISBN: 978-0-820-47090-0
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Comedy
Brian Keener
John Updike’s Human Comedy
Comic Morality in "The Centaur</I> and the "Rabbit</I> Novels
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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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Veröffentlichung: | 09.05.2005 |
Höhe/Breite/Gewicht | H 21 cm / B 14,8 cm / 360 g |
Art des Mediums | Buch [Gebundenes Buch] |
Preis DE | EUR 74.20 |
Preis AT | EUR 76.25 |
Auflage | 1. Auflage |
Reihe | Modern American Literature 43 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-820-47090-0 |
ISBN-10 | 0820470902 |
Über den Autor
The Author: Brian Keener is Chair of the English Department at New York City College of Technology of The City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in American literature at the Graduate School and University Center of the City of New York.
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