UPDIKE'S NEW VERSIONS OF MYTH IN AMERICA

Criticism of John Updike's fiction has often focused on his paradoxical denial of myth in modernity while affirming the persistent human need for myth. An examination of Updike's mythic and realistic elements as a continuum, rather than as opposites, is presented.

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Literary criticism
Myth ritual theory
Mythology
Myths
Narrative modes
Narrative poetry
Nature
Popular culture
Rabbits
Self consciousness
Updike, John (1932-2009)
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