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Product Description: This book approaches Updike's oeuvre by illuminating its ongoing, pervasive conflict between faith and doubt. Concentrating on a trio of Olinger stories, the Rabbit Angstrom tetralogy, In the "Beauty of the Lilies", and "Rabbit Remembered" and dramatizing most emphatically Updike's career-spanning dialogue with his complexly fragile religious beliefs, Bailey interprets the Rabbit saga as fictionalized spiritual autobiography in which, through imposing Harry Angstrom's perceptual limitations upon his own stylistic gifts, Updike set himself the toughest trial of his ethical and aesthetic creed of the spirit-affirming capacities of human perception and expression...read more
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9780838640531 | 1 edition (Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, February 28, 2006), cover price $52.50 | About this edition: This book approaches Updike's oeuvre by illuminating its ongoing, pervasive conflict between faith and doubt.
9781611472998 | Reprint edition (Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, February 28, 2006), cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Rabbit (Un)Redeemed: The Drama of Belief in John Updikes Fiction offers a selective reading of this prolific authors oeuvre, concentrating on Updikes career-spanning reoccupation with issues of faith and doubt.
Product Description: The comedy in John Updikeâs most important works - The Centaur; Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit at Rest; and Rabbit Remembered - defines a comic world and its morality. Although critics have failed to recognize the extent and the importance of Updikeâs comedy, his serious fiction does contain a good deal of farce, burlesque, and irony that, far from being peripheral or mere comic relief, depicts the absurd and contradictory nature of life...read more
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9780820470900 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, May 16, 2005, cover price $73.95 | About this edition: The comedy in John Updikeâs most important works - The Centaur; Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit at Rest; and Rabbit Remembered - defines a comic world and its morality.
Product Description: Twenty-seven critics, as well as Updike himself, provide a kaleidoscopic view of the Rabbit Angstrom saga in 34 reviews and essays. There is dual purpose of this collection of critical responses: first, to provide a historical view of the critical reception of all of Updike's works about Harry Rabbit Angstromâthe four Rabbit novels and the novella Rabbit Remembered and second, to show how these reviews and articles can illuminate the reader with the range of approaches to the saga...read more
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9780313309830 | Praeger Pub Text, February 28, 2005, cover price $113.00 | About this edition: Twenty-seven critics, as well as Updike himself, provide a kaleidoscopic view of the Rabbit Angstrom saga in 34 reviews and essays.
Product Description: Early in his career, John Updike announced his affinity with the Christian existentialism of Soren Kierkegaard, Paul Tillich, Karl Barth, and others. Because of this, many of Updike's critics have interpreted his work from within a Christian existentialist context...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780826213105 | Univ of Missouri Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Early in his career, John Updike announced his affinity with the Christian existentialism of Soren Kierkegaard, Paul Tillich, Karl Barth, and others.
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9780028648491 | Macmillan Library Reference, December 1, 2000, cover price $110.00 | also contains New Essays on Rabbit Run | About this edition: Addresses the recent societal changes occurring in the areas of race, poverty, violence, economics, pregnancy, the Internet, privacy, and epidemiology.
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9780817308995 | Univ of Alabama Pr, July 1, 1998, cover price $34.95
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9780817310370 | Univ of Alabama Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $29.95
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9780820439907 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 1, 1998, cover price $55.95
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9780809319497 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, February 29, 1996, cover price $39.00
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9780028648491, titled "Encyclopedia of Sociology" | Macmillan Library Reference, December 1, 2000, cover price $110.00 | also contains Encyclopedia of Sociology | About this edition: Addresses the recent societal changes occurring in the areas of race, poverty, violence, economics, pregnancy, the Internet, privacy, and epidemiology.
9780521433372 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $74.99
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9780521438841, titled "New Essays on Rabbit, Run" | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $34.99
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