John Updike's human comedy : comic morality in The Centaur and the Rabbit novels

Author(s)

• Keener, Brian

Bibliographic Information

John Updike's human comedy : comic morality in The Centaur and the Rabbit novels

Brian Keener

（Modern American literature / Yoshinobu Hakutani, general editor, v. 43）

P. Lang, c2005

• : hbk.

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-144) and index

Contents of Works

• The comic paragon and the meticulous man in The Centaur
• The comic hero's place in the generations in Rabbit, Run
• The comic hero's renewal in the Rabbit Rudux
• The role of comedy in dispelling illusion in Rabbin is Rich
• The comic hero accepts his mortality in Rabbit at Rest
• Nelson Redux in "Rabbit Remembered"

Details

• NCID: BA7531317X
• ISBN:
  • 0820470902
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: x, 148 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC8 : 933.7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Updike, John -- Humor
  • LCSH : Humorous stories, American -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Updike, John -- Characters -- Harry Angstrom
  • LCSH : Angstrom, Harry (Fictitious character)
  • LCSH : Middle class men in literature
  • LCSH : Comic, The, in literature
  • LCSH : Updike, John. Centaur
  • LCSH : Mythology in literature
  • LCSH : Updike, John -- Ethics
  • LCSH : Ethics in literature
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA31064726