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100 1  O'Connell, Mary,|d1944- 
245 10 Updike and the patriarchal dilemma :|bmasculinity in the 
       Rabbit novels /|cMary O'Connell. 
264  1 Carbondale :|bSouthern Illinois University Press,|c[1996] 
264  4 |c©1996 
300    1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages) :|billustrations 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
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504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-258) and 
       index. 
505 0  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. 
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520    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 literature and place Updike firmly
       with the precursors of the contemporary movement among men
       to reevaluate their cultural inheritance. A disturbing 
       element exists, O'Connell determines, in both the texts of
       the Rabbit novels and in the critical community that 
       examines them. In the novels, O'Connell finds substantial 
       evidence to demonstrate patterns of psychological and 
       physical abuse toward women, citing as the culminating 
       example the mounting toll of literally or metaphorically 
       dead women in the texts. Critics who view Updike as a 
       nonviolent writer and strangely overlook Rabbit's 
       repressive and violent behaviors avoid a discomforting but
       crucial aspect of the characterization. 
520 8  Although she examines negative aspects of Rabbit's 
       behavior, O'Connell avoids the oversimplification of 
       labeling Updike a misogynist. Instead, she looks closely 
       at the forces shaping Rabbit's gender identity as well as 
       at the ways he experiences masculinity and the ways his 
       gender identity affects his personal and spiritual 
       development, his relationships, and, ultimately, his 
       society. As she discusses these issues, O'Connell uses the
       term patriarchy in its broadest sense to refer to the 
       practice of centralizing the male and marginalizing the 
       female in all areas of human life. Patriarchal ideology - 
       the assumptions, values, ideas, and patterns of thought 
       that perpetuate the arrangement - is written as hidden 
       text, permeating every aspect of culture, particularly 
       language, from which it spreads to other signifying 
       systems. Contrary to conventional critical wisdom, the 
       Rabbit tetralogy is not a straightforward chronicle; the 
       novels create meaning by challenging, undermining, and 
       qualifying their own explicit content. Updike claims that 
       his novels are "moral debates with the reader," and 
       according to O'Connell, the resisting reader, active and 
       skeptical, is the one most likely to register the nuances 
       and the shifting currents of the discourse. 
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588 0  Print version record. 
600 10 Updike, John|xCharacters|xHarry Angstrom. 
600 10 Updike, John|xCharacters|xMen. 
600 10 Updike, John. 
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650  0 Masculinity in literature. 
650  0 Angstrom, Harry (Fictitious character) 
650  0 Patriarchy in literature. 
650  0 Men in literature. 
650  7 LITERARY CRITICISM|xAmerican|xGeneral.|2bisacsh 
650 07 Masculinity in literature.|2cct 
650 07 Patriarchy in literature.|2cct 
650 07 Men in literature.|2cct 
650 07 Angstrom, Harry (Fictitious character)|2cct 
650  7 Angstrom, Harry (Fictitious character)|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00809028 
650  7 Masculinity in literature.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01011040 
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650  7 Patriarchy in literature.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01055095 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aO'Connell, Mary, 1944-|tUpdike and the 
       patriarchal dilemma.|dCarbondale : Southern Illinois 
       University Press, ©1996|z0809319497|w(DLC)   94039038
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