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- Title
Collapse of Values as Picturised in John Updike's Novels -- Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux.
- Authors
Aarthy, R.
- Abstract
The paper entitled Collapse of Values as Picturised in John Updike's Novels, Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux attempts to picturise how values collapse in American culture and society. John Updike is one of the most prolific and important American Novelists. The Former Novel Rabbit, Run is unified around Rabbit's impulse for the natural and the consequences of this impulse. Rabbit, as a "Noble" urban savage, images modern man's traditionless character and portends his concomitant problems. The latter novel Rabbit Redux deals with the Collapse of values as depicted in itself. It is an attempt to depict the tumult of the era as it happens in contemporary American culture. The apocalyptic interpretation of twentieth century life is presented in Rabbit Redux through the annihilation resulting from the loss human values. Updike devised for himself a style of narration, an intense, present tense and free indirect style. The Rabbit novels were written by Updike in the present tense. Updike vividly portrays the collapse of values in American culture and society through his novels Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux.
- Subjects
RABBIT, Run (Book : Updike); RABBIT Redux (Book : Updike); UPDIKE, John, 1932-2009; ETHICS in literature; CULTURE
- Publication
Language in India, 2015, Vol 15, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article