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Updike and the patriarchal dilemma : masculinity in the Rabbit novels /

O'Connell examines the role of socially constructed masculinity in Updike's Rabbit tetralogy - Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest - convincingly arguing that the four novels comprise the longest and most comprehensive representation of masculinity in American lite...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Connell, Mary, 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1996.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Abbreviations for Updike's works
  • Introduction
  • Rabbit, run: the mail from Tunis probably
  • Gender formation: but what's wrong with that man?
  • The power of naming: "Well that explains your oratorical gifts"
  • Rabbit redux
  • Life in furnace township
  • Revolution and chaos
  • Is rabbit rich?
  • Laius and Oedipus
  • Rabbit at rest: more mail from Tunis.