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View the Updike surname, family crest and coat of arms. Discover the Updike family history for the Dutch Origin. What is the origin of the name Updike?
Updike is a surname of Dutch origin, and is a spelling variant of the Dutch Opdijk, a topographical name meaning someone who lived on a dike. The surname has been present in North America since the settlement of New Netherland in the 17th century.
Rabbit, Run is a 1960 novel by John Updike. The novel depicts three months in the life of a 26-year-old former high school basketball player named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, who is trapped in a loveless marriage and a boring sales job, and attempts to escape the constraints of his life.
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bolic meanings. An example is Harry’s surname, Angstrom, which, as Updike (1990b, 24) admits, alludes to the German angst (De Bellis 1988, 31). A similar approach is taken by Baker et al. (2015), who explore the religious connotations in the names of two characters who feature prominently in Rabbit, Run. One of
PDF | On Jun 1, 1988, Jack De Bellis published The “Extra Dimension”: Character Names in Updike's “Rabbit” Trilogy | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
With the publication of Rabbit, Run in 1960, John Updike began a series of four novels exploring the inner life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a former basketball star who struggles to find...
