Future Interior
Subjective (A)voidance in John Updike's “Rabbit” Novels
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8894818 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David R Jarraway (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-62 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras.40.1.45 |
| OpenAlex | W2138014352 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
In Rabbit Is Rich (1981), John Updike's use of Wallace Stevens's “Rabbit as King of the Ghosts” crystallizes what American literature in a (post-)Freudian age is particularly prone: ego is no longer master in his own house. Lacan's observation, therefore, that “[w]hat is realized in my history is not the past definite of what it was ... but the future anterior of what I am in the process of becoming” will serve as a theoretical frame within which to critique the suspect future “interior” of “Rabbit” Angstrom throughout Updike's novel quartet
Art · Criminology · Frame (networking · Freudian slip · Id, ego and super-ego · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Rabbit (cipher · Suspect · American Jewish Fiction Analysis · Computer Science · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |