John Updike's Rabbit at Rest: Appropriating History: 18 (Modern American Literature: New Approaches) - Tapa dura

Ristoff, Dilvo I

 
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Sinopsis

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.

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Acerca del autor

The Author: Dilvo I. Ristoff, Professor Titular of English at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Florianopolis, Brazil, is the author of Updike's America: The Presence of Contemporary American History in John Updike's Rabbit Trilogy, the first book-length discussion of Updike's Rabbit novels. He has also published essays on James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Jerzy Kozinski, and other contemporary American writers. Professor Ristoff is the founder and during many years was the editor of Ilha do Desterro, the journal of language and literature of the English Graduate Program at Santa Catarina. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

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