Updike's Rabbit Saga as a Cultural Critique of American Ideology: Second Edition - Softcover

Wang, An-Chi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 6209998534 ISBN 13: 9786209998539

Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2026

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John Updike's five Rabbit novels portray extensively and almost exhaustively the social and cultural milieu of America during the 1950s-1990s. These novels are often regarded as a fictional chronicle even more pertinent and realistic than history books themselves in displaying the changes and evolutions of American society in the latter half of the twentieth century. The novels dramatize in the fictional life of Rabbit Angstrom a great variety of topical events and controversial issues whose number mounts up to many dozens. Few contemporary novelists have provided so comprehensive and multifarious a scope of thought-provoking, even forbidden, subjects as Updike does in these novels, and few American readers can deny their compassion with the bewildered Rabbit Angstrom under such miscellaneous cultural impacts. In these novels, Updike has offered a panorama of American society, a survey of American culture, and a critique of American Dream ideology, not in the manner of a sociologist or a historian, but literally or metaphorically or allegorically through the pilgrimage of an American Adam figure.

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An-chi Wang is a professor in the Dept of English Language and Literature at Soochow University in Taipei, Taiwan. She receives BA, MA, and PhD from National Taiwan University, and is PhD Candidate at Pennsylvania State University, USA. She has published Gulliver's Travels and Ching-hua yuan Revisited: A Menippean Approach (Peter Lang, 1995).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 6209998534
• ISBN 13: 9786209998539
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 120
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