Literary Techniques
Updike is best known as a novelist of manners. The clarity and precision of his style create the illusion of real characters in a plausible...
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Ideas for Group Discussions
Updike describes Rabbit Redux as "echoes and ramifications of the national and international disturbances that were so preoccupying in...
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Social Concerns
Rabbit Redux is the second in a series of novels about the adventures of Harry Angstrom. All four novels are concerned with the...
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Bibliography
(Masterpieces of American Literature)
Bloom, Harold, ed. John Updike: Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House, 1987.
Boswell, Marshall. John Updike’s Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered Irony in Motion. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000.
Greiner, Donald. John Updike’s Novels. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1984.
Luscher, Robert M. John Updike: A Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Twayne, 1993.
Miller, D. Quentin. John Updike and the Cold War: Drawing the Iron Curtain. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001.
Newman, Judie....
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Literary Precedents
Two of Updike's contemporaries published books just before Rabbit Redux that respond in different ways to the success of Apollo 11....
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Adaptations
Only the first novel in the Rabbit series has been adapted as a film. Updike reports: "Rabbit Run, made in the late '60s, came and...
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